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Place of work
Department of Geography and Geology
University of Copenhagen
Øster Voldgade 10
DK 1350 København K
Phone: +45 3532 2505 (direct), 3532 2500 (switch board), +45 40419146 (mobile)
E-mail: [email protected]

Personal data and education
1979: M. Sc. Physical Geography University of Copenhagen
1982: Ph. D. Physical Geography University of Copenhagen

Positions
Sept. 1979 - Sept 1982 : Ph.D.-student Institute of Geography UC
Sept. 1982 - Jan. 1986 : Post. doc. Institute of Geography UC
Jan. 1986 - Dec 1989 : Assistant professor Inst. of Geography UC
Jan. 1990 - April 1992: Associate professor Inst. of Geography UC
May 1992 - April 1993: Research leader. Danish Hydraulic Institute
May 1993 - May 2002: Associate professor Inst. of Geography UC
May 2002 - : Professor in Geography (theme Dymamical Geomorphology)

Awards
1978 Steensbys rejselegat for geografer
1985 Løfflers rejselegat for geografer

Professional activities
Funding Bodies
1998-2005 Member of the Danish Natural Science Research Council
2001-2005 Vice-chairman for the Danish Natural Science Research Council
2001-2003 Member of Forskningsforum
1998-1999 Member of ESA committee. Danish Ministry of Research
1999-2003 Chairman of the ESA committee. Danish Ministry of Research
2001-2004 Member of the Programme Committee for the Agarian Landscape
2000-2004 Chairman of "The Programme Committee for Innovation Post Docs"
2003-2004 Chairman for the Danish Natural Science Research Council committee for funding
.international instumental centres'

Scientific Committees memberships
2007- Member of the Steering Committee for Nordic Research (NORDFORSK)
2004- DANCORE board. Integrated Coastal Zone Management
2004-2005 European Consortium for Ocean Drilling (ECORD)
2004-2007 SCOR/LOICZ working group 122. Sediment retention in estuaries
2003-2004 Chairman for the Research Councils International Board
2003- ESF committee for Innovative Marine Modelling
ESF Membership Critiria Committee
2003- Scientific. Steering Group of Nordic Centres of Excellence
Research Councils committee for environmental research
Nordic Data GRID committee
1999- Danish Royal Geographical Society´s board
1988-1995 Scientific committee of the Danish Society for Natural Conservation (Danmarks Naturfredningsforening).

Other memberships:
2007- Member of Dansk Nationalkommittee for Geografi
2007 Member of Dansk Nationalkomite for Oceanologi
2004 Scientific director for Skalling-Laboratoriet Unv. Copenhagen
2002-2003 Medlem af Nat Fak KU´s udvalg for citationsundersøgelse
2000- Medlem af bestyrelsen for GRAS A/S
2000- Member of Miljøklagenævnet
1994- 1998 Member of Miljøklagenævnet

Administration
2007- Member of Chefkollegiet for Geocenter Denmark
2007- Vice-Head of Department IGG KU
2002-2006 Substitute of the board of the Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen.
1997- 2001 Member of the board of the Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen.
1993 - 2000 Member of the Institute board of Institute of Geography University of Copenhagen.
1991-1992 Member of the Educational Board at the Institute of Geography university of Copenhagen
1986 - 1996 Chairman for the committee for External financed Research, Institute of Geography University of
Copenhagen
1986 - 1988. Vice-chairman of Institute of Geography University of Copenhagen

Field work
Have carried out field work in Denmark and Greenland during the last 25 years.

Funding
2002-2006: CONWOY 2002-2006: Consequences of weather and climate changes for marine and freshwater ecosystems. Conceptual and operational forecasting of the aquatic environment. (Større Tværgående Forskningsprojekt funded by the Danish Natural Science research Council).
2004-200: Sediment accumulation in tidal environments (Funded by the Danish Natural Science Research Council).
2006-2008: The Origin and Genesis of Coastal Barrier Systems (OBS). (Funded by the Danish Natural Science Research Council)

Supervision
Have supervised 5 ph.d students and 10 master student during the last 5 years

Primary fields of research

Estuaries
Tidal Hydraulics. Cohesive sediment transport
Sea-level changes and its effect on coastal areas

Fields of interest

Earth System Science
Sea-level change - climate change
Estuarine tidal hydraulics
Sediment accumulation in coastal lagoons. Global and local.

Current research

Recent and Fossil Coastal Systems (REFLEKS)

Denmark is a perfect locality for the study of both recent and fossil coastal systems. Denmark has a coast line of app. 7000 Km, and the coasts consist almost exclusively of sediments deposited during the Holecone. At some places the coast line is erosional like in the northern part of Zeeland and the north-western part of Jutland, whereas in other parts of the country - like Thy, Vendsyssel and the islands Læsø and Anholt in the Kattegat Sea - we find extensive areas with large sand accumulations. In Denmark there are areas where sea level rises, and these areas are situated close to places where sea level falls. In the northeastern part of the country one can study the formation for strand plains, spits, beach reaches and sand dunes in great detail, whereas in the southwestern part of the country one can study how the sandy coastal systems today respond to a rising sea level. The ages of the coastal systems range from systems being active today and back to systems formed at the closing of the last ice age (Weichsel).

The basic idea of the project is to combine research at the surface with research of the vertical variation through geological layers - and back in time. In this way it becomes possible to give a three-dimensional interpretation of the landscape formation. A large number of dated sediment samples from the investigated coastal systems will make it possible to describe the historical development of the coastal landscapes from the end of last ice age until present days. We combine geomorphological expertise - the interpretation and description of the surface morphology - with geological expertise in order to interpret the deeper layers and the way they were formed.

The REFLEKS-project is a three year project running from the middle of 2008 until the middle of 2011. With the results we expect to gain we will be able to describe how the sea level has changed in Denmark during the last 13.000 years, the Holocene period. Furthermore we expect to be able to forecast how coastal similar landscapes will respond to the climatic changes that are expected within the next hundred years. Finally, we expect that our results will be useful in the oil exploitation in depths of several kilometers. Here oil is often found in sandy reservoirs deposited as coastal systems many million years ago. Data from such depths are mostly sparse and knowledge of how sandy coastal systems form and function today will be useful for the interpretation of deep reservoirs formed by ancient coastal processes.

Contact person: Prof. Morten Pejrup (Project leader, IGG) 

Projet participants: 
From GEUS: Lars Henrik Nielsen, Peter Johannesen, Jens Morten Hansen, Merete Binderup, Birger Larsen, Ingelise Malling Møller, Stefan Piasecki. 
From IGG: Morten Pejrup, Lars Nielsen, Nanna Noe-Nygaard, Troels Aagaard, Thorbjørn Joest Andersen, Anni Tindahl Madsen. 
From AU and Risø: Andrew Murray.