Adele Westgård
Job description
Adele researches past climate change, with a focus on past warm periods in the Arctic. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the project i2B - into the Blue and is part of iC3 (Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate) at the Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Her research involves development and application of methods to accurately reconstruct past climate variability in the polar regions. Her PhD work has provided a better understanding of the connections between ecology, geochemistry, and the environment, and how that can reflect past climate changes. Her work contributes to knowledge about the interconnections between the ocean, cryosphere, and climate, as well as how warmer climates impact the Arctic.
Adele holds a PhD in palaeoceanography and marine ecology from UiT. She actively engages in outreach of geoscience and climate science through various platforms, including activities with school classes, contributions to Arctic Frontiers’ "Science on Tap!" events, and more.
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Julie Meilland,
Adele Westgård,
Tom Chalk,
Melissa Chierici,
Gavin L. Foster
et al.:
Large-scale culturing of the subpolar foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reveals tolerance to a large range of environmental parameters associated to different life-strategies and an extended lifespan
Mattia Greco,
Adele Westgård,
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Julie Meilland
:
Uncovering hidden structures: Previously undescribed pseudopodia and ectoplasmic structures in planktonic foraminifera
Adele Westgård,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Tom Chalk,
Melissa Chierici,
Gavin L. Foster,
Julie Meilland
:
Large-scale culturing of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions
Julie Meilland,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Adele Westgård,
Clara Manno,
Raphaël Morard,
Michael Siccha
et al.:
Rare but persistent asexual reproduction explains the success of planktonic foraminifera in polar oceans
Journal of Plankton Research 2022 DOI
Stijn M A De Schepper,
Jochen Manfred Knies,
Griselda Anglada Ortiz,
Evin Karimi Balov,
Dag Inge Blindheim,
Lena Cardinahl
et al.:
Into the Blue (i2B) Cruise KH7010 report: Recovering Quaternary interglacial archives from the Arctic Ocean
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2025
Adele Westgård,
Mohamed M. Ezat,
Julie Meilland,
Gavin Foster
:
Constraining the environmental and biological controls on the geochemical composition of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma:
Towards developing robust proxies for reconstructing polar surface ocean hydrography
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 13. August 2025
Adele Westgård
:
A Tiny Perspective on Ocean and Climate
2025
Adele Westgård,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
G. Foster,
Julie Meilland,
Tom Chalk
et al.:
Reducing inaccuracies in polar palaeotemperature reconstructions using planktic foraminifera
2025
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Julie Meilland,
Adele Westgård,
Thomas B. Chalk,
Melissa Chierici,
Gavin L. Foster
et al.:
The response of planktic foraminifera Globigerina bulloides to changing environmental parameters through extensive culturing experiments
2024
Adele Westgård,
Julie Meilland,
Thomas B. Chalk,
J. Andy Milton,
Gavin L. Foster,
Michal Kucera
et al.:
Development of a proxy toolbox for reconstructing polar ocean surface hydrography based on large-scale culturing of the planktic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma
2024
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Adele Westgård
:
Ny studie av plankton kan endre vårt syn på fortidens klima
Forskersonen.no 2024 FULLTEKST
Alessio Fabbrini,
Adele Westgård,
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Julie Meilland,
Audrey Morley
:
Large-scale culturing experiment of Arctic spinose species Turborotalita quinqueloba (planktonic foraminifera): findings and open questions
2024
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Julie Meilland,
Adele Westgård,
Tom Chalk,
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Naima El Bani Altuna
et al.:
CAGE-ARCLIM cruise: Culturing (sub)Arctic planktic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma and Globigerina bulloides: Implications for ocean acidification and paleoceanography reconstructions
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Julie Meilland,
Adele Westgård,
Tom Chalk,
Gavin L. Foster
:
The secret life of Globigerina bulloides
2022
Adele Westgård,
Julie Meilland,
Tom Chalk,
Andy Milton,
Gavin L. Foster,
Michal Kucera
et al.:
Development of a proxy toolbox for reconstructing polar ocean surface hydrography based on large-scale culturing of the planktic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma
2022
Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed Mohamed,
Adele Westgård,
Freya Elizabeth Sykes,
Julie Meilland,
Gavin L. Foster,
Naima El Bani Altuna
et al.:
An Arctic perspective on glacial ocean and climate changes
2022
Adele Westgård,
Julie Meilland,
Thomas Ben Chalk,
Andy Milton,
Gavin Foster,
Michal Kucera
et al.:
Preliminary results from large-scale culturing experiments on N. pachyderma: Development of a proxy toolbox for polar ocean surface hydrography
2021
Mohamed Ezat,
Julie Meilland,
Adele Westgård,
Thomas Ben Chalk,
Tine Lander Rasmussen,
Naima El Bani Altuna
et al.:
CAGE21-2- Planktic foraminifera sampling for culturing experiments, central Greenland Sea 75°N
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2021 FULLTEKST
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Research interests
- Climate Change in the Polar Regions.
- Consequences of climate change for ocean, ice, and ecosystems in the polar regions.
- Geochemical methods for reconstructing climate change based on foraminifera.
- Foraminifera: connections between ecology, environment, and geochemistry.
