Research Professor Kari Strand, programme director: ’Global Change in the North’
I received my PhD in Philosophy in 1993 at the University of Oulu. In 1997 I qualified for docentship in geology and mineralogy with specialization in exogenic (surficial) processes. My professorship begun in 2008 and a special field is palaeosedimentology particularly in climate change research in high latitude regions. I have been in charge of independent research projects since 1991 and working as a programme director since 1998. As a programme director my task is to coordinate and advance the Global Change research in the University of Oulu and to improve the conditions of research and training of researchers both nationally and internationally. Presently, I coordinate also other Thule Institute’s research programme Northern Land Use and Land Cover, which partially is integrated with Global Change research.
In my research I am looking for indicators for long-term environmental and climatic change by, for example, looking at physical, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of sediments and stratigraphic evolution of sediment sequences, especially in high latitude regions. Presently, I am leading two research projects of the Academy of Finland, one concentrating to the central Arctic Ocean sediments and other to sedimentation and glacial history of Wilkes Land and Prydz Bay in Antarctica. The Early Earth sedimentation and climate evolution I am studying by applying modern sequence stratigraphic methods. This research is an integral part of the international scientific research of Global Change. The first degree and graduate programmes are also an essential part in this research. My publications in the last decade have been linked with glacially influenced sedimentation, climate history and the development of sedimentary basins in different time intervals of the Earth. At the moment I am the Finnish ESSAC representative and work with issues related to the international Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) under the European Consortium (ECORD). I am also a member of the Standing Scientific Group on Geosciences of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the vice-delegate for Finland in SCAR. I am also a member of the Stratigraphic Commission of Finland. I am in the Directory Board of multidisciplinary graduate school ARKTIS as a representative of the University of Oulu.
My publishing activities encompass over 100 original works, of which over 40 are international referee-publications. Some of my publications are part of the general scientific discussion of northern and environmental research. In addition I have regularly supervised dissertations and many thesis works.
Main publications
Strand, K. & Immonen, N., (in press) Dynamics of the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet as revealed by quartz sand grain microtextures of the Late Pleistocene Arctic Ocean sediments. Quaternary Science Review.
Immonen N, Strand, K. & Turunen S., (2009). Mineralogical evidence of Middle Miocene glacial ice in the central Arctic Ocean sediments. Geophysica 45 (1-2), 59-67.
Valppu, H., Strand, K. & Huusko, A., (2009). Spectral analysis of physical properties of the Prydz Bay sediment, Antarctica for identifying cycles for the last five million years. Geophysica 42 (1-2), 27-35.
Strand, K., Junttila, J., Lahtinen, T., & Turunen, S., (2008). Climate transitions in the Arctic as revealed by mineralogical evidences from the Upper Cenozoic sediments in the central Arctic Ocean and the Yermak Plateau. Norwegian Journal of Geology 88, pp. 305-312.
Junttila, J., Lahtinen, T. & Strand, K. (2008). Provenance and sea-ice transportation of Mid-Pliocene and Quaternary sediments, Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean (ODP Site 911). Boreas, Vol. 37, pp. 273–285.
Junttila, J. & Strand, K, (2006). Smectite Crystallinity and Composition in Pliocene-Pleistocene Sediments at the Continental Rise (ODP Sthe 1165), Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Terra Antartica Vol 13 (2) 8 p.
Strand, K., (2005). Sequence stratigraphy of the siliciclastic East Puolanka Group, the Palaeoproterozoic Kainuu Belt, Finland. Sedimentary Geology 176, 149-166.
Strand. K. & Saarnisto M., (2005). Past Global Changes – High Latitude perspectives. Northern Sciences Review 2005. Thule Institute, University of Oulu, 189-196.
Junttila, J., Ruikka, M. & Strand, K., (2005). Clay Mineral Assemblages in High Resolution Plio-Pleistocene Interval at ODP Site 188-1165, Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 45, 51-163.
Strand, K., Passhier, S. & Näsi, J., (2003). Implications of quartz grain microtextures for onset of Eocene/Oligocene glaciation in Prydz Bay, ODP Site 1166, Antarctica. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 198, 101-111.
Ruikka, M., & Strand, K., (2002). Clay minerals in response to the Pleistocene climate change on the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean (ODP, Site 911). Polar Record 38 (206): 241-248.
Strand, K., (2002). Volcanogenic and sedimentary rocks within the Svecofennian Domain, Ylivieska, western Finland - an example of Paleoproterozoic intra-arc basin fill. in Wladyslaw Altermann and Patricia Corcoran (editors) Precambrian Sedimentary Environments: modern Approach to Ancient Depositional Systems. Spec. Publs. Int. Ass. Sediment. 33, 339-350.
Kristoffersen Y., Strand K., Vorren T., Harwood, D. & Webb, P., (2000). Pilot shallow drilling on the continental shelf, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 12 (4), 463-470.
Strand, K. & Laajoki, K., (1999). Application of parasequence concept to the Paleoproterozoic record of the northern Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Res. 97, 253-267.
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