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Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman

Job description

 Education

  • PhD, Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (2022)
  • MSc, Quaternary Science and Climate Development, Stockholm University (2017)
  • BSc, Environmental Science, Stockholm University (2015)
  • Anders Schomacker, Helena Alexanderson, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Mark F.A. Furze, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Nina Kirchner et al.:
    Weichselian–Holocene glacial history of the Sjuøyane archipelago, northern Svalbard
    Boreas 2025 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Owen C. Cowling, Lis Allaart, Skafti Brynjólfsson et al.:
    Seasonal precipitation variability on Svalbard inferred from Holocene sedimentary leaf wax δ2H
    Boreas 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Ólafur Ingólfsson, Skafti Brynjólfsson, Lis Allaart, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Kurt H. Kjær et al.:
    Persistence of Holocene ice cap in northeast Svalbard aided by glacio-isostatic rebound
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Anders Schomacker :
    Arctic and sub-Arctic lake water δ2H and δ18O along a coastal-inland transect: Implications for interpreting water isotope proxy records
    Journal of Hydrology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lisa Claire Orme, Ewa M. Lind, Trine Marianne Holm, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Karin A. Koinig, Anne Hormes et al.:
    Climatic impacts on an Arctic lake since 1300 AD: a multi-proxy lake sediment reconstruction from Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard
    Journal of Paleolimnology 31. October 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Youri Lammers, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Marie Føreid Merkel, Emma Marie Bender, Alexandra Rouillard et al.:
    Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonisation of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until the Norse settlement (Landnám) AD 870
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Louise Mary Vick, Martin Mikkelsen, Geoffrey Corner, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Leif Trønnes, Anne Hormes et al.:
    Evolution and temporal constraints of a multiphase postglacial rock slope failure
    Geomorphology 2021 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Lena M. Håkansson, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Skafti Brynjólfsson, Andreas Grumstad et al.:
    Geomorphology and surficial geology of the Femmilsjøen area, northern Spitsbergen
    Geomorphology 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lis Allaart, Juliane Müller, Anders Schomacker, Tom Arne Rydningen, Lena Håkansson, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman et al.:
    Late Quaternary glacier and sea-ice history of northern Wijdefjorden, Svalbard
    Boreas 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Linn Margrethe Høeg Voldstad, Inger Greve Alsos, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Peter D. Heintzman, Lena Håkansson, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman et al.:
    A complete Holocene lake sediment ancient DNA record reveals long-standing high Arctic plant diversity hotspot in northern Svalbard
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Egon Nørmark, Tom Arne Rydningen, Wesley R. Farnsworth et al.:
    Glacial history of the Åsgardfonna Ice Cap, NE Spitsbergen, since the last glaciation
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Lena Håkansson, Sandrine Duboscq, Allison Cluett et al.:
    Holocene precipitation seasonality in northern Svalbard: Influence of sea ice and regional ocean surface conditions
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anders Schomacker, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Ólafur Ingólfsson, Lis Allaart, Lena Håkansson, Michael J. Retelle et al.:
    Postglacial relative sea level change and glacier activity in the early and late Holocene: Wahlenbergfjorden, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
    Scientific Reports 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sofia E. Kjellman, Pia E. Axelsson, Bernd Etzelmüller, Sebastian Westermann, A. Britta K. Sannel :
    Holocene development of subarctic permafrost peatlands in Finnmark, northern Norway
    The Holocene 2018 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Jan Höper, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    Steindalen fra et geologisk perspektiv
    2024 SAMMENDRAG
  • Anders Schomacker, Helena Alexanderson, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Mark F.A. Furze, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Nina Kirchner et al.:
    Weichselian-Holocene glacial history of the Sjuøyane archipelago, northern Svalbard
    2024
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Francois Lapointe, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Michael J. Retelle, Raymond S. Bradley :
    Improving the leaf wax δ2H paleo-precipitation proxy on Svalbard using annually laminated sediments from Linnévatnet
    2024
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Anders Schomacker :
    Using lakes as isotopic precipitation gauges to constrain inflow seasonality and evaporative enrichment
    2023
  • Elizabeth K. Thomas, Allison Cluett, Owen Cowling, Devon Gorbey, Kayla Hollister, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman et al.:
    Terrestrial and aquatic leaf wax hydrogen isotope proxy system models: Recent advances and remaining gaps
    2023
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Anders Schomacker, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Owen C. Cowling, Lis Allaart et al.:
    Holocene precipitation seasonality along a climatic gradient from western Spitsbergen to Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
    2022
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Lena Håkansson :
    Holocene precipitation seasonality on Svalbard and in Northern Fennoscandia reconstructed using organic geochemical and stable isotope proxies
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Anders Schomacker, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Owen C. Cowling, Lis Allaart et al.:
    Seasonal distribution of precipitation on Svalbard modulated by regional ocean surface conditions and sea ice during the Holocene
    2022
  • Anders Schomacker, Helena Alexanderson, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Mark F.A. Furze, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Nina Kirchner et al.:
    Late Quaternary glacial and environmental history of the Sjuøyane archipelago, Svalbard
    2022
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Youri Lammers, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Marie Føreid Merkel, Emma Marie Bender, Alexandra Rouillard et al.:
    Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonization of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until Landnám
    2021 FULLTEKST
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Anders Schomacker :
    Lake water isotope gradients in arctic and subarctic Fennoscandia: implications for precipitation isotope proxy reconstructions
    2021
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Naima El Bani Altuna, Christine Tømmervik Kollsgård, Solvei Stenslie, Ellery Brydon Daines :
    Geology Day 2020
    11. September 2021 DATA
  • Alexandra Rouillard, Marie Bulínová, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Carolina Olid, Cristian Gudasz, Johan Rydberg et al.:
    PolarCH4ives: Metagenomic and geochemical arCH4ives from Abisko lakes
    2021
  • Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Matthias Forwick, Tom Arne Rydningen, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Michael J. Retelle et al.:
    Holocene environmental history of lake Femmilsjøen, northern Svalbard
    2020
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Lena Håkansson, Anders Schomacker, Antony Brown, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Multi-proxy study on ancient plant DNA, geochemical profiles, macro- and microfossils established event-based chronology for the High Arctic lake Tenndammen, Svalbard
    2020
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Lena Håkansson, Anders Schomacker, Antony Brown, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Multi-proxy study based on sedaDNA, pollen and plant macrofossils detects high proportion of Svalbard flora over the past 700 years
    2020
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    Hydrogenisotopenes hemmelighet
    geoforskning.no 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Elizabeth K. Thomas :
    Lake Water Isotope Gradients in Arctic Norway, Sweden and Finland: Implications for Proxy-based Precipitation Reconstructions
    2020 SAMMENDRAG
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    Holocene precipitation seasonality in Svalbard inferred from δ2H of sedimentary leaf waxes
    2020
  • Vårin Trælvik Eilertsen, Marie Bulinová, Christine Lockwood-Ireland, Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    Fortidens klima/Paleoclimate
    2020
  • Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Matthias Forwick, Tom Arne Rydningen, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Juliane Müller et al.:
    Wijdefjorden and Femmilsjøen - a fjord-lake study in northern Spitsbergen
    2019
  • Lis Allaart, Anders Schomacker, Matthias Forwick, Tom Arne Rydningen, Wesley Randall Farnsworth, Juliane Müller et al.:
    Wijdefjorden and Femmilsjøen – an integrated fjord-lake study in northern Spitsbergen
    2019
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Lena Håkansson, Sandrine Duboscq, Allison Cluett et al.:
    Leaf wax hydrogen isotope reconstruction of Holocene precipitation seasonality in High Arctic Svalbard
    2019
  • Anders Schomacker, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    Flyvende forskere – et klimaproblem
    Forskning.no 27. May 2019 FULLTEKST
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman :
    As a climate researcher, should I change my air-travel habits?
    Nature 2019 DOI
  • Alexandra Rouillard, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Pernille B Eidesen, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Lena M Håkansson et al.:
    Microbial methane cycling during the Holocene in Svalbard: a paleogenomics perspective based on lake sediment
    2019
  • Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Lena Håkansson, Elizabeth K. Thomas :
    Holocene Arctic precipitation and its response to sea ice extent - using leaf wax hydrogen isotopes as a proxy
    2018

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    Research interests

    I am a paleoclimatologist and Quaternary geologist interested in understanding long-term Arctic climate change. My research focuses on paleoclimate reconstruction, mainly using organic geochemical and stable isotope proxies.

    Keywords: Arctic, Holocene, paleoclimate, climate proxies, lake sediments, organic geochemistry, biomarkers, stable isotopes

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    Teaching

    My teaching experience includes lectures, classroom and lab exercises, field teaching on bachelor's and master's/PhD level, as well as MSc student supervision. I teach on the following courses:

    Researcher profile in Cristin
    ResearchGate
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-8601

    Member of research group

    Sedimentary Systems, Paleoclimates and Environments   Norsk innhold

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