Anders Anker Bjørk

Anders Anker Bjørk

Assistant professor, tenure track, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Member of:

    ORCID: 0000-0002-4919-792X

    My research is focused on the changing glaciers of our planet. I study how the ice is changing when climate shifts, and how these changes are affecting our landscapes and global systems. I am very interested in expanding our knowledge on past glaciers fluctuations, and belive that getting a better handle on past dynamics will give us better predictions on future changes. 

     

    My current projects are AIR ANTARCTICA, funded by the VILLUM FOUNDATION and HIGHSPEED, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. 

     

     

     

     

    Selected publications

    1. Published

      Sea Surface Temperature Variability on the SE‐Greenland Shelf (1796–2013 CE) and Its Influence on Thrym Glacier in Nørre Skjoldungesund

      Wangner, D. J., Sicre, M., Kjeldsen, K., Jaeger, J. M., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Vermassen, F., Sha, L., Kjær, Kurt H., Klein, V. & Andresen, C. S., 2020, In: Paleoceanography. 35, 3, 16 p., e2019PA003692.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    2. Published

      Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018

      Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E., Smith, B., van den Broeke, M., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P., Briggs, K., Joughin, I., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, T., Scambos, T., Schlegel, N., A, G., Agosta, C., Ahlstrøm, A., Babonis, G., Barletta, V. R., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Blazquez, A., Bonin, J., Colgan, W., Csatho, B., Cullather, R., Engdahl, M. E., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Forsberg, R., Hogg, A. E., Gallee, H., Gardner, A., Gilbert, L., Gourmelen, N., Groh, A., Gunter, B., Hanna, E., Harig, C., Helm, V., Horvath, A., Horwath, M., Khan, S., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Konrad, H., Langen, P. L., Lecavalier, B., Loomis, B., Luthcke, S., McMillan, M., Simonsen, S. B. & The IMBIE Team, T. I. T., 2020, In: Nature. 579, 7798, p. 233-239 7 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    3. Published

      A Major Collapse of Kangerlussuaq Glacier's Ice Tongue Between 1932 and 1933 in East Greenland

      Vermassen, F., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Sicre, M. A., Jaeger, J. M., Wangner, D. J., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Siggaard-Andersen, M. L., Klein, V., Mouginot, J., Kjær, Kurt H. & Andresen, C. S., 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 4, 9 p., e2019GL085954.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    4. Published

      Greenland ice sheet mass balance assessed by PROMICE (1995–2015)

      Colgan, W., Mankoff, K., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Box, J., Simonsen, S. B., Sørensen, L., Khan, S. A., Solgaard, A. M., Forsberg, R., Skourup, H., Stenseng, L., Kristensen, S., Hvidegaard, S. M., Citterio, M., Karlsson, N. B., Fettweis, X., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Andersen, S., Van As, D. & Fausto, R., 2019, In: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin. 43, 6 p., e2019430201.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    5. Published

      Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

      Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Van Den Broeke, M., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., Noël, B., Scheuchl, B. & Wood, M., 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 19, p. 9239-9244 6 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    6. Published

      Geodetic and model data reveal different spatio-temporal patterns of transient mass changes over Greenland from 2007 to 2017

      Zhang, B., Liu, L., Khan, S. A., Dam, T. V., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Peings, Y., Zhang, E., Bevis, M., Yao, Y. & Noël, B., 1 Apr 2019, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 515, p. 154-163

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    7. Published

      Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland

      Bendixen, M., Overeem, I., Rosing, Minik Thorleif, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Kjær, Kurt H., Kroon, Aart, Zeitz, G. & Iversen, Lars Lønsmann, 2019, In: Nature Sustainability. 2, p. 98-104 7 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    8. Published

      Resolving seasonal ice velocity of 45 Greenlandic glaciers with very high temporal details

      Vijay, S., Khan, S. A., Kusk, A., Solgaard, A. M., Moon, T. & Bjørk, Anders Anker, 1 Feb 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 3, p. 1485-1495 11 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    9. Published

      A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

      Kjær, Kurt H., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Binder, T., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Eisen, O., Fahnestock, M., Funder, Svend Visby, Garde, A. A., Haack, H., Helm, V., Houmark-Nielsen, Michael, Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Khan, S., Machguth, H., McDonald, I., Morlighem, M., Mouginot, J., Paden, J. D., Waight, Tod, Weikusat, C., Willerslev, Eske & MacGregor, J., 2018, In: Science Advances. 4, 11, 12 p., eaar8173.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    10. Published

      Insights on the surge behavior of Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ, Northeast Greenland, over the last century

      Mouginot, J., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Millan, R., Scheuchl, B. & Rignot, E., 28 Oct 2018, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 20, 9 p., 11,197-11,205.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    11. Published

      Holocene history of the Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenland

      Bjørk, Anders Anker, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Olsen, J., Goldsack, A. E., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Morlighem, M., Andresen, C. S., Rasmussen, P., Oxfeldt, G. & Kjær, Kurt H., 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 193, p. 145-158 14 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    12. Published

      The deglaciation of coastal areas of southeast Greenland

      Dyke, L. M., Hughes, A., Andresen, C. S., Murray, T., Hiemstra, J., Bjørk, Anders Anker & Rodés, Á., 1 Sep 2018, In: The Holocene. 28, p. 1535-1544 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    13. Published

      Instability of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream over the last 45,000 years

      Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Levy, L. B., Carlson, A. E., Buizert, C., Olsen, J., Strunk, A., Bjørk, Anders Anker & Skov, D., 1 Dec 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 8 p., 1872.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    14. Published

      Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland glaciers to warm Atlantic Water from Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland data

      Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Bjørk, Anders Anker & Morlighem, M., 2018, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 45, p. 2688-2696 9 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    15. Published

      Changes in Greenland’s peripheral glaciers linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation

      Bjørk, Anders Anker, Aagaard, S., Lütt, A., Khan, S. A., Box, J., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Korsgaard, N. J., Cappelen, J., Colgan, W., Machguth, H., Andresen, C. S., Peings, Y. & Kjær, Kurt H., 2018, In: Nature Climate Change. 8, p. 48-53 6 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    16. Published

      Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

      Bendixen, M., Iversen, Lars Lønsmann, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Elberling, Bo, Westergaard-Nielsen, Andreas, Overeem, I., Barnhart, K. R., Khan, S. A., Box, J. E., Abermann, J., Langley, K. & Kroon, Aart, 2017, In: Nature. 550, p. 101-104 4 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    17. Published

      Minimal Holocene retreat of large tidewater glaciers in Køge Bugt, southeast Greenland

      Dyke, L. M., Andresen, C. S., Seidenkrantz, M., Hughes, A. L. C., Heimstra, J. F., Murray, T., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Sutherland, D. A. & Vermassen, F., 26 Sep 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 10 p., 12330.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    18. Published

      Three decades of volume change of a small Greenlandic glacier using ground penetrating radar, Structure from Motion, and aerial photogrammetry

      Marcer, M., Stentoft, P. A., Bjerre, Elisa, Cimoli, E., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Stenseng, L. & Machguth, H., Aug 2017, In: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 49, 3, p. 441-425 15 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    19. Published

      Multibeam bathymetry and CTD measurements in two fjord systems in southeastern Greenland

      Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Weinrebe, R. W., Bendtsen, J., Bjørk, Anders Anker & Kjær, Kurt H., 18 Aug 2017, In: Earth System Science Data. 9, p. 589-600 12 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    20. Published

      Ice-dammed lake drainage in west Greenland: drainage pattern and implications on ice flow and bedrock motion

      Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Khan, S. A., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Nielsen, K. & Mouginot, J., 28 Jul 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 14, p. 7320-7327 8 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    21. Published

      Strong altitudinal control on the response of local glaciers to Holocene climate change in southwest Greenland

      Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Strunk, A., Levy, L. B., Olsen, J., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Lauridsen, T. L., Jeppesen, E. & Davidson, T. A., 2017, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 168, p. 69-78 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › peer-review

    22. Published

      Temperature observations from northernmost Greenland, 2006-2010

      Schomacker, A., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Bjørk, Anders Anker & Kjær, Kurt H., 31 Mar 2017, In: Hokkaido University. Institute of Low Temperature Science. Contributions. Series A. Physical Science. 75, p. 85-90 6 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    23. Published

      Geodetic measurements reveal similarities between post–Last Glacial Maximum and present-day mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet

      Khan, S. A., Sasgen, I., Bevis, M., Dam, T. V., Bamber, J. L., Wahr, J., Willis, M., Kjær, Kurt H., Wouters, B., Helm, V., Csatho, B. M., Fleming, K., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Aschwanden, A., Knudsen, P. & Munneke, P. K., 2016, In: Science Advances. 2, 9, 10 p., e1600931.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    24. Published

      Greenland surface mass-balance observations from the ice-sheet ablation area and local glaciers

      Machguth, H., Thomsen, H., Weidick, A., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Abermann, J., Andersen, M., Andersen, S., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Box, J., Braithwaite, R., Bøggild, C. E., Citterio, M., Clement, P., Colgan, W., Fausto, R., Gleie, K., Gluber, S., Hasholt, Bent, Hynek, B., Knudsen, N. T., Hillerup Larsen, S., Mernild, S., Oerlemans, J., Oerter, H., Olesen, O., Smeets, C. .. J. P. P., Steffen, K., Stober, M., Sugiyama, S., van As, D., van den Broeke, M. & van de Wal, R. S. W., 2016, In: Journal of Glaciology. 62, 235, p. 861-887 27 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    25. Published

      Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978–1987

      Korsgaard, N. J., Nuth, C., Khan, S. A., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Schomacker, A. & Kjær, Kurt H., 2016, In: Scientific Data. 3, 15 p., 160032.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    26. Published

      Holocene ice marginal fluctuations of the Qassimiut lobe in South Greenland

      Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Find, J., Kristensen, A., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Odgaard, B. V., Olsen, J. & Kjær, Kurt H., 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 11 p., 22362.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    27. Published

      Spatial and temporal distribution of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since AD 1900

      Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Korsgaard, N. J., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Khan, S. A., Box, J. E., Funder, Svend Visby, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Bamber, J. L., Colgan, W., van den Broeke, M., Siggaard-Andersen, M., Nuth, C., Schomacker, A., Andresen, C. S., Willerslev, Eske & Kjær, Kurt H., 2015, In: Nature. 528, 7582, p. 396-400 5 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    28. Published

      Brief communication: getting Greenland’s glaciers right – a new data set of all official Greenlandic glacier names

      Bjørk, Anders Anker, Kruse, L. M. & Michaelsen, P. B., 1 Dec 2015, In: The Cryosphere. 9, p. 2215-2218 4 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    29. Published

      Significant differences in late Quaternary bedrock erosion and transport: east versus West Greenland ~70°N – evidence from the mineralogy of offshore glacial marine sediments

      Andrews, J., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Eberl, D., Jennings, A. & Verplanck, E., 2015, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 30, 5, p. 452-463 12 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    30. Published

      Greenland ice sheet mass balance: a review

      Khan, S. A., Aschwanden, A., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Wahr, J., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup & Kjær, Kurt H., 2015, In: Reports on Progress in Physics. 78, 26 p., 046801.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    31. Published

      The response of the southern Greenland ice sheet to the Holocene thermal maximum

      Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Kjær, Kurt H., Lecavalier, B., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Colding, S. O., Huybrechts, P., Jakobsen, K. E., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Knudsen, K. L., Odgaard, B. V. & Olsen, J., 2015, In: Geology. 43, 4, p. 291-294 4 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    32. Published

      Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming

      Khan, S. A., Kjær, Kurt H., Bevis, M., Bamber, J., Wahr, J., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Korsgaard, N. J., Stearns, L. A., van den Broeke, M. R., Liu, L., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog & Muresan, I. S., 2014, In: Nature Climate Change. 4, p. 292-299 8 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    33. Published

      Glacier dynamics at Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers, southeast Greenland, since the Little Ice Age

      Khan, S. A., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Kjær, Kurt H., Bevan, S., Luckman, A., Aschwanden, A., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Korsgaard, N. J., E. Box, J., van den Broeke, M., van Dam, T. & Fitzner, A., 2014, In: The Cryosphere. 8, p. 1497-1507 11 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    34. Published

      Improved ice loss estimate of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet

      Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Khan, S. A., Wahr, J., Korsgaard, N. J., Kjær, Kurt H., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Hurkmans, R., van den Broeke, M. R., Bamber, J. L. & van Angelen, J. H., 11 Feb 2013, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 118, 2, p. 698–708 11 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    35. Published

      Aerial photographs reveal late–20th-century dynamic ice loss in Northwestern Greenland

      Kjær, Kurt H., Khan, S. A., Korsgaard, N. J., Wahr, J., Bamber, J. L., Hurkmans, R., van den Broeke, M., Timm, L. H., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Bjørk, Anders Anker, Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Jørgensen, L. T., Færch-Jensen, A. & Willerslev, Eske, 2012, In: Science. 337, 6094, p. 569-573 5 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    36. Published

      An aerial view of 80 years of climate-related glacier fluctuations in southeast Greenland

      Bjørk, Anders Anker, Kjær, Kurt H., Korsgaard, N. J., Khan, S. A., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Andresen, C. S., Box, J., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog & Funder, Svend Visby, 27 May 2012, In: Nature Geoscience. 5, p. 427-432 6 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

    37. Published

      Rapid response of Helheim Glacier in Greenland to climate variability over the past century

      Andresen, C. S., Straneo, F., Ribergaard, M. H., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, Kuijpers, A., Nørgaard-Pedersen, N., Kjær, Kurt H., Schjøth, F., Weckstrøm, K. & Ahlstrøm, A. P., 2012, In: Nature Geoscience. 5, p. 37-41 5 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

    38. Published

      Possible Late Pleistocene volcanic activity on Nightingale Island, South Atlantic Ocean, based on geoelectrical resistivity measurements, sediment corings and 14C dating

      Bjørk, Anders Anker, Björck, S., Cronholm, A., Haile, James Seymour, Ljung, K. & Porter, C., 2011, In: GFF. 133, 3-4, p. 141-147 7 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review

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