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Ph.D theses 1976- present

 

1.  Matthews, John A. (1976) A phytogeography of a gletschervorfeld: Storbreen-i-Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, Norway.      Ph.D. Thesis: University of London (King's College).

 

2. Mellor, Antony (1984)  An investigation of pedogenesis on selected Neoglacial moraine ridge sequences, Jostedalsbreen and Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Hull.

 

3. Messer, Anne C. (1984) A geographical investigation of soil development on glacier forelands in south-central Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

4. Whittaker, Robert J. (1985)  Plant community and plant population studies of a successional sequence: Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

5.  McCarroll, Daniel (1986) Relative-age dating of Neoglacial moraines, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: the potential of the Schmidt hammer. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

6. Vere, Diana M. (1986) Depositional characteristics of ice marginal landforms, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: Coventry Polytechnic.

 

7. Bothamley, I. Keith (1987)  The nature and origin of Neoglacial terminal moraines, Jotunheimen and Jostedalsbreen, southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

8. Cook, Judith D. (1989)  Active and relict sorted circles, Jotunheimen, Norway: a study of the altitudinal zonation of periglacial processes. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

9.  Davies, Delyth A. (1991)  A regional study of glacio-fluvial sediments and their environmental controls on glacier forelands in southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

10.  Berrisford, Mark S. (1992)  The geomorphological significance of seasonally late-lying and perennial snowpatches, Jotunheimen, Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

11. Pardoe, Heather S. (1992)  The relationship between modern pollen deposition and vegetation: studies from alpine and sub-alpine communities on glacier forelands in southern Norway.  Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff

 

12. Crouch, Helena J. (1992)  Cryptogam distribution patterns and successional sequences on a glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Greenwich.

 

13. Sutherland, Iain (1994)  Alpine periglacial mass-wasting and surface wash in the Jotunheimen Mountains of southern Norway: altitudinal and temporal trends. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Cardiff.

 

14. Foskett, Jaqui (1998) The nature and significance of microtopographic variation on the vegetation of glacier forelands, Jotunheimen and Jostedalsbreen, south-central Norway.  Ph.D. Thesis: University of Greenwich.

 

15. Grimm, Günter (2000) Vegetation succession on glacier forelands in the Jostedalsbreen region and Jotunheimen, south-central Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Oxford (St. John's College and School of Geography).

 

16. Barnett, Catherine T. (2001) Holocene climatic change and tree-line response in Leirdalen, western Jotunheimen, south-central Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Birmingham.

 

17. Smith, Jamie G. (2002) Reconstructing Holocene glacier variations from glaciolacustrine sediments: a new approach using modern analogues in southern Norway.  Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

18. Nicholls, Margaret (2005) Thirty years of primary vegetation succession on the     Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway: species populations, community dynamics and environmental influences.  Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

19.  Blackmore, Penelope R. (2006) The dendrochronology of Pinus sylvestris L. in    Jotunheimen, central southern Norway: a dendroecological, dendroclimatological and dendroglaciological approach.  Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

20. Vater, Amber E. (2006) Invertebrate and arachnid succession on selected glacier forelands in southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

21. Robbins, Jane A. (2007) The pioneer plant community: studies on roadside verges,glacier forelands and other disturbed habitats in southern Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: University of Wales Swansea.

 

22. Trenbirth, Hazel E. (2013) Direct lichenometry in the Jotunheimen and Jostedalsbreen regions, southern Norway: implications for lichen growth rates and lichenometric dating. Ph.D. Thesis: Swansea University.

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 23. Hallang, Helen (2021) Contemporary, decadal, and millennial-scale permafrost- and vegetation dynamics and carbon release in an alpine region of Jotunheimen, Norway. Ph.D. Thesis: Swansea University.

 

 

 

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