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2026

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Earth Science

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79
Citations
22256
World Ranking
564
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience

Overview

Jan Mangerud is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing to 71 publications in this area. Their research spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work focuses on diverse topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Climate change and permafrost, Marine and environmental studies, Geological formations and processes, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Frequent venues for Jan Mangerud's publications include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Jan Mangerud and collaborators include:

  • A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics, 2021, Nature
  • The discovery of the Younger Dryas, and comments on the current meaning and usage of the term, 2020, Boreas
  • A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Simulated last deglaciation of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet primarily driven by oceanic conditions, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist frequently collaborates with researchers including John Inge Svendsen, Carl Regnéll, Per Möller, Anna L.C. Hughes, and Valery Astakhov.

Jan Mangerud has been recognized within their field by election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1990 and as a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the Geoscience section.

Best Publications

  • Late quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia

    John Inge Svendsen;Helena Alexanderson;Valery I Astakhov;Igor Demidov

  • Quaternary stratigraphy of Norden, a proposal for terminology and classification

    Jan Mangerud;Svend T. Andersen;Björn E. Berglund;Joakim J. Donner

  • The last Eurasian ice sheets - a chronological database and time-slice reconstruction, DATED-1

    Anna L.C. Hughes;Richard Gyllencreutz;Øystein Strand Lohne;Jan Mangerud

  • Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation.

    Jan Mangerud;Martin Jakobsson;Helena Alexanderson;Valery Astakhov

  • THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM OF SVALBARD AND THE BARENTS SEA AREA: ICE SHEET EXTENT AND CONFIGURATION

    Jon Y. Landvik;Stein Bondevik;Anders Elverhøi;Willy Fjeldskaar

  • Apparent radiocarbon ages of recent marine shells from Norway, Spitsbergen, and Arctic Canada

    Jan Mangerud;Steinar Gulliksen

  • Maximum extent of the Eurasian ice sheets in the Barents and Kara Sea region during the Weichselian

    John Inge Svendsen;Valery I. Astakhov;Dimitri Yu. Bolshiyanov;Igor Demidov

  • The North Atlantic atmosphere-sea surface 14C gradient during the Younger Dryas climatic event

    Edouard Bard;Maurice Arnold;Jan Mangerud;Martine Paterne

  • A Younger Dryas Ash Bed in western Norway, and its possible correlations with tephra in cores from the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic

    Jan Mangerud;Sven Erik Lie;Harald Furnes;Inger Lise Kristiansen

  • The Storegga Slide tsunami—comparing field observations with numerical simulations

    Stein Bondevik;Finn Løvholt;Carl Harbitz;Jan Mangerud

  • Tsunami sedimentary facies deposited by the Storegga tsunami in shallow marine basins and coastal lakes, western Norway

    Stein Bondevik;John Inge Svendsen;Jan Mangerud

  • Holocene glacial and climatic variations on Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    John Inge Svendsen;Jan Mangerud

  • FLUCTUATIONS OF THE SVALBARD–BARENTS SEA ICE SHEET DURING THE LAST 150 000 YEARS

    Jan Mangerud;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln;Beathe Heggen

  • Marine 14C reservoir ages for 19th century whales and molluscs from the North Atlantic

    Jan Mangerud;Stein Bondevik;Steinar Gulliksen;Anne Karin Hufthammer

  • The periglacial climate and environment in northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation

    Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten;Andrei A. Andreev;Valery I. Astakhov;Igor Demidov

  • Radiocarbon dating of marine shells, including a discussion of apparent age of Recent shells from Norway

    Jan Mangerud

  • The Storegga tsunami along the Norwegian coast, its age and run up

    Stein Bondevik;John Inge Svendsen;Geir Johnsen;Jan Mangerud

  • A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years

    Evan J. Gowan;Xu Zhang;Xu Zhang;Sara Khosravi;Alessio Rovere

  • New Radiocarbon Dates for the Vedde Ash and the Saksunarvatn Ash from Western Norway

    Hilary H. Birks;Steinar Gulliksen;Haflidi Haflidason;Jan Mangerud

  • Late Weichselian and holocene sea-level history for a cross-section of western Norway

    John Inge Svendsen;Jan Mangerud

  • Age and extent of the Barents and Kara ice sheets in Northern Russia

    Jan Mangerud;John Inge Svendsen;Valery I. Astakhov

Frequent Co-Authors

John Inge Svendsen
John Inge Svendsen Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Anders Elverhøi
Anders Elverhøi University of Oslo
Jon Y. Landvik
Jon Y. Landvik Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Eiliv Larsen
Eiliv Larsen Geological Survey of Norway
Haflidi Haflidason
Haflidi Haflidason Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Hilary H. Birks
Hilary H. Birks University of Bergen
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
Hans Petter Sejrup
Hans Petter Sejrup University of Bergen
Christian Hjort
Christian Hjort Lund University
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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