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Jan Sverre Laberg is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research output spans various topics within earth and environmental sciences, with significant contributions to studies focused on geological and paleoclimatological phenomena.

The scientist's recent publications reflect engagement with geological and cryospheric processes, including:

  • Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the Norwegian Barents Shelf - A review (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
  • A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude (2021), Nature
  • Early and middle Miocene ice sheet dynamics in the Ross Sea: Results from integrated core-log-seismic interpretation (2021), Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Climate-controlled submarine landslides on the Antarctic continental margin (2023), Nature Communications
  • Late Weichselian and Holocene behavior of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Kejser Franz Josef Fjord system, NE Greenland (2022), Quaternary Science Reviews

Their frequent co-authors include Laura De Santis, Robert M. McKay, Amelia Shevenell, Denise K. Kulhanek, and David M. Harwood.

Publication venues that have featured their research multiple times include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Communications Earth & Environment

The main fields of study engaged by Jan Sverre Laberg are Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with subfields emphasizing Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, and Geophysics.

The scientific topics addressed in their work involve:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Climate change and permafrost

Best Publications

  • Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project

    M. Canals;G. Lastras;R. Urgeles;J.L. Casamor

  • Triggering mechanisms of slope instability processes and sediment failures on continental margins: a geotechnical approach

    Nabil Sultan;Pierre Cochonat;M Canals;Antonio Cattaneo

  • THE NORWEGIAN–GREENLAND SEA CONTINENTAL MARGINS: MORPHOLOGY AND LATE QUATERNARY SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENT

    Tore O. Vorren;Jan Sverre Laberg;Frank Blaume;Julian A. Dowdeswell

  • Late Weichselian submarine debris flow deposits on the Bear Island Trough Mouth Fan

    J.S. Laberg;T.O. Vorren

  • Trough mouth fans — palaeoclimate and ice-sheet monitors

    Tore O. Vorren;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • The Plio-Pleistocene glaciation of the Barents Sea-Svalbard region: a new model based on revised chronostratigraphy

    Jochen Knies;Jens Matthiessen;Christoph Vogt;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • The Trænadjupet Slide, offshore Norway — morphology, evacuation and triggering mechanisms

    J.S Laberg;T.O Vorren

  • Deglaciation of a marine-based ice sheet: Late Weichselian palaeo-ice dynamics and retreat in the southern Barents Sea reconstructed from onshore and offshore glacial geomorphology

    Monica C.M. Winsborrow;Karin Andreassen;Geoffrey D. Corner;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • Large‐scale sedimentation on the glacier‐influenced polar North Atlantic Margins: Long‐range side‐scan sonar evidence

    J. A. Dowdeswell;N. H. Kenyon;A. Elverhøi;J. S. Laberg

  • Seafloor geomorphology of the SW Barents Sea and its glaci-dynamic implications

    Karin Andreassen;Jan Sverre Laberg;Tore O. Vorren

  • The Middle and Late Pleistocence evolution and the Bear Island Trough Mouth Fan

    J.S. Laberg;T.O. Vorren

  • On the origin and flow behavior of submarine slides on deep-sea fans along the Norwegian–Barents Sea continental margin

    A. Elverhøi;H. Norem;E. S. Andersen;J. A. Dowdeswell

  • Neogene stratigraphy and the sedimentary and oceanographic development of the NW European Atlantic margin

    Martyn S. Stoker;Daniel Praeg;Berit Oline Hjelstuen;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • Cenozoic alongslope processes and sedimentation on the NW European Atlantic margin

    Jan Sverre Laberg;Martyn S. Stoker;K.I. Torbjørn Dahlgren;Henk de Haas

  • Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European ‘passive’ continental margin

    D. Praeg;M.S. Stoker;P.M. Shannon;S. Ceramicola

  • The Andøya Slide and the Andøya Canyon, north-eastern Norwegian–Greenland Sea

    J.S Laberg;T.O Vorren;J.A Dowdeswell;N.H Kenyon

  • Late Cenozoic erosion of the high-latitude southwestern Barents Sea shelf revisited

    Jan Sverre Laberg;Karin Andreassen;Tore O. Vorren

  • Palaeoslides and other mass failures of Pliocene to Pleistocene age along the Atlantic continental margin of NW Europe

    D. Evans;Z. Harrison;P.M. Shannon;J.S. Laberg

  • Seismic analyses of Cenozoic contourite drift development in the Northern Norwegian Sea

    Jan Sverre Laberg;Torbjørn Dahlgren;Tore O. Vorren;Haflidi Haflidason

  • Late Quaternary glacial development of the mid-Norwegian margin—65 to 68°N

    K.I Torbjørn Dahlgren;Tore O Vorren;Jan Sverre Laberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Tore O. Vorren
Tore O. Vorren University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Katrine Husum
Katrine Husum Norwegian Polar Institute
Karin Andreassen
Karin Andreassen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Neil H. Kenyon
Neil H. Kenyon University of Southampton
Berit Oline Hjelstuen
Berit Oline Hjelstuen University of Bergen
Haflidi Haflidason
Haflidi Haflidason Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Jürgen Mienert
Jürgen Mienert University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Martyn S. Stoker
Martyn S. Stoker University of Adelaide

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