Fields of Scholarship
Quaternary stratigraphy
Glacial geology
Paleoclimatology

Honours and Awards
2024 Nordic Geoscientist Award. The geological societies of the Nordic countries
2023 Knight 1.Class of the Royal Saint Olav Order, Norway
2018 James Croll Award. Quaternary Research Association (QRA), Great Britain
2007 Honorary Member of International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA)
2006 Honorary Member of Quaternary Research Association (QRA), Great Britain
2005 The Broegger Prize, Geological Society of Norway
1996 Fellow of The Royal Academy of Science, Medicine and Technology, Lund, Sweden
1995 The Nansen Award for Polar Research, University of Oslo
1992 Fellow of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Oslo)
1991 Fellow of Academia Europaea (London)
1987 Fellow of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Trondheim)
1971 The Reusch Medal, Geological Society of Norway
1962 The Helga and Hans Reusch Award. University of Oslo