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Riko Noormets is affiliated with the University Centre in Svalbard in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, Noormets has a substantial focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Global and Planetary Change, and Geology.

The core topics of Noormets's work include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Noormets has contributed to multiple papers that cover a variety of aspects related to Arctic and environmental sciences. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0" (2020, Scientific Data)
  • "Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum" (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • "Holocene glacial history of Svalbard: Status, perspectives and challenges" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Source apportionment of methane escaping the subsea permafrost system in the outer Eurasian Arctic Shelf" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 5.0" (2024, Scientific Data)

Frequent coauthors of Noormets include:

  • Florence Colleoni
  • Simon T. Belt
  • Alessio Nogarotto
  • Gesine Mollenhauer
  • Jens Hefter

The scientist often publishes in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Boreas
  • Open Research Europe

Best Publications

  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0

    Martin Jakobsson;Larry Mayer;Bernard Coakley;Julian A. Dowdeswell

  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0.

    Martin Jakobsson;Larry A. Mayer;Caroline Bringensparr;Carlos F. Castro

  • Sedimentology of rocky shorelines: 3. hydrodynamics of megaclast emplacement and transport on a shore platform, Oahu, Hawaii

    Riko Noormets;Keith A.W. Crook;E. Anne Felton

  • On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

    Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov;Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Thomas M. Cronin

  • Evidence for an ice shelf covering the central Arctic Ocean during the penultimate glaciation

    Martin Jakobsson;Martin Jakobsson;Johan Nilsson;Leif G. Anderson;Jan Backman

  • Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum

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  • An extensive and dynamic ice sheet on the West Greenland shelf during the last glacial cycle.

    C. Ó Cofaigh;J.A. Dowdeswell;A.E. Jennings;K.A. Hogan

  • The evolution of a submarine landform record following recent and multiple surges of Tunabreen glacier, Svalbard

    Anne Elina Flink;Riko Noormets;Nina Kirchner;Douglas I. Benn;Douglas I. Benn

  • Massive remobilization of permafrost carbon during post-glacial warming

    Tommaso Tesi;Francesco Muschitiello;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Martin Jakobsson;Martin Jakobsson

  • Sedimentology of rocky shorelines: 2: Shoreline megaclasts on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii—origins and history

    Riko Noormets;E.Anne Felton;Keith A.W. Crook

  • Precision of high-resolution multibeam echo sounding coupled with high-accuracy positioning in a shallow water coastal environment

    Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Dierk Hebbeln;Alexander Bartholomä

  • Late Quaternary ice flow in a West Greenland fjord and cross-shelf trough system: submarine landforms from Rink Isbrae to Uummannaq shelf and slope

    Julian A. Dowdeswell;K.A. Hogan;Colm O Cofaigh;E.M.G. Fugelli

  • Geophysical constraints on the dynamics and retreat of the Barents Sea ice sheet as a paleobenchmark for models of marine ice sheet deglaciation

    Henry Patton;Karin Andreassen;Lilja R. Bjarnadóttir;Julian A. Dowdeswell

  • Quaternary contourite drifts of the Western Spitsbergen margin

    Michele Rebesco;Anna Wåhlin;Jan Sverre Laberg;Ursula Schauer

  • Past ice-sheet flow east of Svalbard inferred from streamlined subglacial landforms

    Julian A. Dowdeswell;K.A. Hogan;Jeffrey Evans;R. Noormets

  • A major trough-mouth fan on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica: The Belgica Fan

    J.A. Dowdeswell;C. Ó Cofaigh;R. Noormets;Robert D. Larter

  • Quantification of dune dynamics during a tidal cycle in an inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea

    Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Calving controlled by melt-under-cutting : detailed calving styles revealed through time-lapse observations

    Penelope How;Kristin M. Schild;Douglas I. Benn;Riko Noormets

  • Holocene glacial history of Svalbard: Status, perspectives and challenges

    Wesley Randall Farnsworth;Wesley Randall Farnsworth;Lis Allaart;Ólafur Ingólfsson;Helena Alexanderson

  • Evidence for full-glacial flow and retreat of the Late Weichselian Ice Sheet from the waters around Kong Karls Land, eastern Svalbard

    Kelly A. Hogan;Julian A. Dowdeswell;Riko Noormets;Jeffrey Evans

  • Development of subaqueous barchanoid‐shaped dunes due to lateral grain size variability in a tidal inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea

    Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Morphology of the upper continental slope in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas - Implications for sedimentary processes at the shelf edge of West Antarctica

    R. Noormets;J.A. Dowdeswell;Robert D. Larter;C. Ó Cofaigh

  • High-resolution geophysical observations of the Yermak Plateau and northern Svalbard margin: implications for ice-sheet grounding and deep-keeled icebergs

    J. A. Dowdeswell;M. Jakobsson;K. A. Hogan;Matthew O'Regan

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell University of Cambridge
Kelly A. Hogan
Kelly A. Hogan British Antarctic Survey
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
Colm Ó Cofaigh
Colm Ó Cofaigh Durham University
Jeffrey Evans
Jeffrey Evans Loughborough University
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Ólafur Ingólfsson
Ólafur Ingólfsson University of Iceland
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Christian Winter
Christian Winter Kiel University
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

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