Kurt Henrik Kjær
@khkjaer
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I’m thrilled to be starting at my alma mater 👩🏻🎓 @Globe_UCPH as Associate Professor on a shared position with #GEUS. Will be working towards a cross-disciplinary understanding of #Arctic #change (past and future) with #geosciences #marine #paleoecology and #sedaDNA 🌎❄️🌊🏔🧪🧬
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We broke the world record in ancient DNA today! 2-million-year-old DNA from plants and animals were retrieved from geological deposits and show that North Greenland was once home to an open boreal/arctic community incl. mastodon. https://t.co/QUpGZ08Xr3
https://t.co/2DBZ99tDgc
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DNRF renew GeoGenetics as a Center of excellence -
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The board of the Danish National Research Foundation has decided to support the establishment of 11 new DNRF Centers of Excellence. The Centers of Excellence…
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The first unambiguous Middle Pleistocene Homo specimen from mainland Southeast Asia—and it’s a Denisovan?!?! https://t.co/SwrU6OVaD3
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We are excited to share that Professor @ras_nielsen is one of six Berkeley faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year! This is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. Congrats Professor Nielsen! Read more here: https://t.co/YUAM5yYP81
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The impact crater under Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier has been dated to 58 million years before present—much older than previously thought, according to a new study from @ScienceAdvances. https://t.co/7IQuOU2DSV
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AddThis | Home New paper on the glacier response to the Little Ice Age cooling in Greenland https://t.co/2u19yWeqGJ
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A Late Paleocene age for Greenland’s Hiawatha impact structure
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The Hiawatha impact structure is dated to 58 Ma by 40Ar/39Ar analysis of sand and U-Pb analysis of shocked zircon.
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I am super happy to have been awarded a grant from @VILLUMFONDEN to study historical glaciology in Antarctica. I will hire two PhDs and two Postdocs to join the fun - so keep an eye out!
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Population Genomics of the Viking World. Congrats Ashot Margaryan, Daniel Lawson, @siko76
@FerRacimo + many others from @LFGeoGenetics and other research centres. Collaboration is the key to success in science. https://t.co/OvVPfWwkcM
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Fabrice Demeter, Assistant Professor @LFGeoGenetics, on-site with his team in Northern Laos at Tam Pa Ling cave. This site is yielding the oldest modern humans in continental Southeast Asia dated to 70-46 000 years. They have been excavating there since 2009. @Indi750
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What a great introduction to the new GLOBE Institute. Glad to be part of such a diverse and curious group! @uni_copenhagen @UCPH_health
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One of the PoLAR-FIT research objectives is to "understand the interaction of climate & landscape change and how this has affected the evolution and migration of organisms through the Western Arctic during the Pliocene." Grosse et al. #PoLARFIT2019
https://t.co/yY2gk9V7bm
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Carl Zimmer and Eske Willerslev discuss ancient Siberian DNA, the puzzle of interbred populations, and possible connections to Native Americans. @RealNYT @carlzimmer
https://t.co/VoKY3eWXAH
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Genetic analysis of ancient teeth and bones suggests Native Americans largely descend from a vanished group called the Ancient Paleo-Siberians.
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GLOBE Institute. Our new institute at the Faculty of Heath at University of Copenhagen:
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@naturesustainab @lifeinmud @IrinaOvereem @GLPerspective @aabjoerk @khkjaer Full-text access: https://t.co/PRnFqTLZUc
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Do you want your own little piece of the worlds natural history? Here is a 3D print file of the newly discovered Hiawatha Crater in Greenland: https://t.co/VHjBlHShxc For scale, the big hole in the middle is 31 km wide! ... read the paper here: https://t.co/bMSFjc7MPH
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Look here our paper on the Hiawatha impact crater is now published
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