Veijo Pohjola

Professor at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Physical Geography

Telephone:
+46 18 471 25 09
Mobile phone:
+46 70 961 71 60
E-mail:
Veijo.Pohjola@geo.uu.se
Visiting address:
Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala
Postal address:
Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:
Docent

Short presentation

Professor of Physical Geography, with glaciology as subject area

Section Dean for the Earth Science section at Uppsala University

Professor responsible for the PhD research program in Physical Geography

Keywords

  • physical geography
  • glaciology (ice dynamics
  • snow and firn processes
  • ice cores)
  • climate change
  • Arctic.

Biography

Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences Uppsala University. Scientific focus is within glaciology, especially physical processes within ice masses. Participating in an ice core / mass balance / ice dynamics program covering the Svalbard Archipelago, focusing on retrieval of climatic records since 1997, and I have led over 25 expeditions to Svalbard. Swedish delegate in SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System) WP7: Remote Sensing Working Group (2018- ), by commission of the Swedish Polar Research Secreteriat. Chair of the SIOS RSWG 2019-2021.

Research

Larger scale projects I have been participating is the last decade are: ESF-PolarClimate – SvalGlac http://svalglac.eu/ , and the Nordic CoE in Atmosphere / Cryosphere research Svali http://www.ncoe-svali.org/, and ESF-Marie Curie NSINK.

During the International Polar Year (2007-09) actively participating in three IPY projects:

1.IPY-58 KINNVIKA (administratively as project leader) and scientifically active with the newly started Vestfonna ice core and ice dynamics project (https://www.ipy.org/projects/item/174-kinnvika-arctic-warming-and-impact-research; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0459.2011.00436.x);

2. IPY-37 GLACIODYN participating with the Lomonosovfonna /Nordenskiöldbreen project, for which I have been working with since 1997 (www.geo.uu.se/forskning/luval/is-klimat);

3. IPY-213 ENVISNAR, within the project Muohta ja jiegna, with the perspective on how snow pack changes influences the livelihoods of rein-deer herders.

Recent topics include;

1) work on understanding how the firn area aquifers that grow on Svalbard ice fields due to the accelerated warming;

2) collaboration with the Swedish Met Office and the hydro power industry in Sweden to estimate the water volume in snow, where we 2018 were granted a project from the Swedish Energy Agency to improve the knowledge of the snow storage upstream hydro power dams, and 2021 another grant to carry on how drones-based remote sensing can contribute to better prediction of hydro power production.

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citationshl=sv&user=FvK6NAoAAAAJ

Media

Climate research for High School pupils Royal Academy of Science 2025): https://www.youtube.com/live/n_GOQQpQaWY (VP 4th section)

Forskarpodden- Svalbards smältande isar: https://www.uu.se/nyheter/2024/2024-12-04-svalbards-smaltande-isar

Upp Talk Weekly- Betraktelser från 40 års forskning på världens glaciärer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxx6FIr8Hc

Svalbard – den globala uppvärmningens bullseye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXK5Szndy8k

Thor and the Ice Giants - from a glaciologist perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4nIpCjfbvM

Veijo Pohjola

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