Sønke Maus

Researcher

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

sonke.maus@ntnu.no +47 73594707

Byggteknisk, Gløshaugen

I am genuinely interested in sea ice, its physics and role in the environment. My interest began during my stay on Svalbard as Marie-Curie stipendiate (1998-1999). Having learned that sea ice microstructure and crystal growth is a poorly understood topic, I studied it as phd, interrrupted by a teacher education in Germany in 2003/2004, and obtained my phd on sea ice microstructure and physical properties at the Geophysical Institute (GFI) at the University of Bergen. From 2007-2013 I continued working at GFI, mostly with topics related to sea ice physical processes in the climate system. During that time I established fundamental research of sea ice on microscopic and molecular scales, based on X-ray imaging at synchrotron radiation facilities. This study of sea ice microstructure is relevant for many disciplines like oceanography+climate, arctic biogeochemistry and microbiology, engineering and remote sensing, environmental issues like oil spills in ice-covered waters. Besides the fundamental studies of sea ice physics my interest is to incorporate the micro-scale physics into larger scale models of ice-atmosphere-ocean interaction, climate and engineering applications.

After one year experience (2014) with consultant activity on problems related to ice and sea ice in the Arctic Seas (own enterprise,http://www.sea-ice.no), I am since since February 2015 working at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), presently as workpackage leader for 'X-ray tomography with synchrotron radiation' within MOSIDEO an international project that studies oil-ice microscale interaction on different scales. Recently I organised two events on X-ray tomography of porous ice media: "X-ray Micro-tomography of Snow and Porous Ice Media" at the Interpore 2017-9th International Conference on Porous Media (http://folk.ntnu.no/sonkem/MS3.5-interpore2017.pdf) and the "Workshop on X-ray micro-tomography of porous ice media" at NTNU in Trondheim (http://folk.ntnu.no/sonkem/porousicemedia-ntnu062017.pdf).

I am member of the ice team (ice coring, micro-tomography) of the ongoing MOSAiC expedition ( https://follow.mosaic-expedition.org - the largest central Arctic expedition ever - https://mosaic-expedition.org/profile/sonke-maus/ ).

Recent publications in press/preprints:

Maus, S. (2020). The plate spacing of sea ice. In press in Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 82, 2020 (preprint: http://folk.ntnu.no/sonkem/plate_spacing_annglac_preprint_1119.pdf )

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Maus, Sønke; Schneebeli, Martin; Wiegmann, Andreas. (2021) An X-ray micro-tomographic study of the pore space, permeability and percolation threshold of young sea ice. The Cryosphere.
Maus, Sønke. (2020) The plate spacing of sea ice. Annals of Glaciology. vol. 82.
Salganik, Evgenii; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Maus, Sønke. (2020) Consolidation of fresh ice ridges for different scales. Cold Regions Science and Technology. vol. 171.
Monrabal-Martinez, Carlos; Scibilia, Elena; Maus, Sønke; Muthanna, Tone Merete. (2019) Infiltration Response of Adsorbent Amended Filters for Stormwater Management under Freezing/Thawing Conditions. Water. vol. 11 (12).
Petrich, Christian; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Harkati, Lekhmissi; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils. (2019) Mosideo/cirfa tank experiments on behavior and detection of oil in ice. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions. vol. 2019-June.
Salomon, Martina Lan; Arntsen, Martin; Dang, Nga Phuong; Maus, Sønke; O'Sadnick, Megan; Petrich, Christian; Schneebeli, Martin; Wiese, Mareike. (2017) Experimental and Micro-CT study on the Oil Distribution in laboratory grown Sea Ice. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions.
Maus, Sønke; Becker, Jurgen; Leisinger, Sabine; Matzl, Margret; Schneebeli, Martin; Wiegmann, Andreas. (2015) Oil saturation of the sea ice pore space. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions. vol. 2015-January.
Bartels-Rausch, Thorsten; Jacobi, Hans-Werner; Kahan, Tara F.; Thomas, Jennie L.; Thomson, Erik S.; Abbatt, Jonathan P.D.; Ammann, Markus; Blackford, Jane R.; Bluhm, Hendrik; Boxe, Christopher S.; Dominé, Florent; Frey, Markus M.; Gladich, Ivan; Guzmán, Marcelo I.; Heger, Dominik; Huthwelker, Thomas; Klán, Petr; Kuhs, Werner F.; Kuo, Min H.; Maus, Sønke; Moussa, Samar G.; McNeill, V. Faye; Newberg, John T.; Pettersson, Jan B.C.; Roeselovà, Martina; Sodeau, John R.. (2014) A review of air-ice chemical and physical interactions (AICI): Liquids, quasi-liquids, and solids in snow. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. vol. 14 (3).
Maus, Sønke; Leisinger, Sabine; Matzl, Margret; Schneebeli, Martin; Wiegmann, Andreas. (2013) Modelling oil entrapment in sea ice on the basis of microtomographic images. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions.
De La Rosa, Sara; Maus, Sønke. (2012) Laboratory study of frazil ice accumulation under wave conditions. The Cryosphere. vol. 6 (1).
Maus, Sønke; De La Rosa, Sara. (2012) Salinity and solid fraction of frazil and grease ice. Journal of Glaciology. vol. 58 (209).
De La Rosa, Sara; Maus, Sønke; Kern, Stefan. (2011) Thermodynamic investigation of an evolving grease to pancake ice field. Annals of Glaciology. vol. 52 (57).
Maus, Sønke; Müller, Susann; Büttner, Juliane; Brütsch, Sabina; Huthwelker, Thomas; Schwikowski, Margit; Enzmann, Frieder; Vähätolo, Anssi. (2011) Ion fractionation in young sea ice from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Annals of Glaciology. vol. 52 (57).
Richter, Kristin; Maus, Sønke. (2011) Interannual variability in the hydrography of the Norwegian Atlantic Current: Frontal versus advective response to atmospheric forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. vol. 116.
Maus, Sønke. (2009) On geophysical modelling of sea ice: microstructure and salinity. Report Series in Geophysics.
Maus, Sønke; Huthwelker, Thomas; Enzmann, Frieder; Miedaner, Markus; Stampanoni, Markus; Marone, Federica; Hutterli, Manuel A.; Hintermüller, Christoph; Kersten, Michael. (2009) Synchrotronbased X-ray tomography: insights into sea ice microstructure. Report Series in Geophysics.
Maus, Sønke. (2003) Interannual variability of dense shelf water salinities in the North-Western Barents Sea. Polar Research. vol. 22 (1).

Books

Maus, Sønke. (2007) On brine entrapment in sea ice: Morphological Stability, Microstructure and Convection. Logos Verlag Berlin. 2007. ISBN 978-3-8325-1523-2.

Part of book/report

Petrich, Christian; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Lekhmissi, Harkati; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils. (2018) An Overwiew of the MOSIDEO/CIRFA Experiments on Behavior and Detection of Oil in Ice. Proceedings of the Forty-first AMOP Technical Seminar, Environment and Climate Change Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Salomon, Martina Lan; Maus, Sønke; Arntsen, Martin; O'Sadnick, Megan; Petrich, Christian; Wilde, Fabian. (2016) Distribution of oil in sea ice: Laboratory Experiments for 3-dimensional microCT investigations. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference - ISOPE 2016.
Maus, Sønke. (2007) Prediction of the cellular microstructure of sea ice by morphological stability theory. Physics and Chemistry of Ice.
Maus, Sønke. (2007) The planar-cellular transition during freezing of natural waters. Physics and Chemistry of Ice.

Report/dissertation

Maus, Sønke; Huthwelker, Thomas; Enzmann, Frieder; Kersten, Michael. (2009) Synchrotron-based X-ray micro-tomography of natural sea ice: Experimental report 20080881. 2009.
Maus, Sønke. (2008) Hydro- and thermodynamics related to CO2-fluxes through the seafloor. 2008. ISBN 82-8116-013-6.
Maus, Sønke. (2007) Brine entrapment in sea ice: morphological stability, microstructure, and convection. Universitetet i Bergen. 2007. ISBN 9783832515232.

Others

Maus, Sønke. (2020) Microstructure and solutal boundary layer at the sea ice - ocean interface. EGU General Assembly 2020 ; Wien. 2020-05-04.
Maus, Sønke. (2020) Permeability of growing sea ice - observations, modelling and some implications for thinning Arctic sea ice. EGU General Assembly 2020 ; Wien. 2020-05-04.
Petrich, Christian; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Harkati, Lekhmissi; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils. (2019) Joint MOSIDEO/CIRFA tank experiments on behavior and detection of oil in ice. The International Glaciological Society Sea Ice Symposium ; Winnipeg. 2019-08-19 - 2019-08-23.
Petrich, Christian; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Harkati, Lekhmissi; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils. (2019) MOSIDEO/CIRFA Tank Experiments on Behavior and Detection of Oil in Ice. International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions ; Delft. 2019-06-09 - 2019-06-13.
Borrebæk, Per-Olof; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Maus, Sønke; Klein-Paste, Alex; Selj, Josefine Helene Krogh; Foss, Sean Erik; Marstein, Erik Stensrud. (2018) Sliding and Adhesion of Snow - A Cursory Study. Integrated Photovoltaic Technical Conference 2018 (I-PVTC 2018) - From Advanced Materials and Technologies to Multiscale Integration and Usages ; Cassis. 2018-09-10 - 2018-09-12.
Maus, Sønke. (2018) Sea ice microstructure. SAMCoT Sea ice rubble and ridge action workshop . NTNU Trondheim; Scandic Lerkendal. 2018-09-19 - 2018-09-20.
Maus, Sønke. (2018) The skeletal layer of sea ice: X-ray microtomography and modeling. 4th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (PCI- 2018) . ETH Zürich; Zürich. 2018-01-07 - 2018-01-12.
Maus, Sønke. (2018) Transport properties of sea ice from X-ray microtomographic imaging - evidence for directed percolation. 4th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice (PCI- 2018) . ETH Zürich; Zürich. 2018-01-07 - 2018-01-12.
Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Schneebeli, Martin. (2018) Sea ice microstructure during the MOSAiC drift: X-ray microtomographic imaging and modelling. MOSAiC Science workshop . Alfred Wegner Institut für Polarforschung; Potsdam. 2018-05-28 - 2018-06-01.
Petrich, Chris; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Harkati, Lekhmissi; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils. (2018) An overview of the MOSIDEO/CIRFA experiments on behavior and detection of oil in ice. 41st AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response ; Victoria, BS. 2018-10-02 - 2018-10-04.
Maus, Sønke. (2017) A sea ice pore space analysis in terms of 3-d directed percolation. 9th International Conference on Porous Media and Annual Meeting . The International Society for Porous Media; Rotterdam. 2017-05-08 - 2017-05-11.
Maus, Sønke. (2017) Challenges of XRT imaging of sea ice/saline water freezing. Workshop on X-ray Microtomography of porous ice media . Sønke Maus, NTNU; Trondheim. 2017-06-22 - 2017-06-23.
Maus, Sønke. (2017) X-ray microtomography of sea ice. ICTMS 2017 is the 3rd biannual conference of IntACT (International Association of Computed Tomography) . IntACT (International Association of Computed Tomography); Lund. 2017-06-26 - 2017-06-30.
Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Lu, Wenjun; Schwarz, Jens Oliver. (2017) Micro-CT based evaluation an modelling of sea ice properties. First national workshop on porous media . Interpore Norway; NTNU Trondheim. 2017-10-18 - 2017-10-18.
Salomon, Martina Lan; Maus, Sønke; Petrich, Christian. (2017) Density Measurements of young Sea Ice- a comparison of micro-CT imaging technique and hydrostatic weighing. InterPore 2017 . InterPore and Delft University of Technology; Rotterdam. 2017-05-08 - 2017-05-11.
Petrich, Chris; Maus, Sønke. (2016) Facebook: Norut-forsker Christian Petrich oppholder seg på Svalbard for å utføre olje-i-is eksperimenter på landfast havis. Facebook [Internett]. 2016-03-18.
Petrich, Chris; Maus, Sønke. (2016) Facebook: Stipendiat Martina Lan Salomon borer kjerneprøver av is med oljesøl i Van Mijenfjorden på Svalbard. Facebook [Internett]. 2016-03-31.
Petrich, Chris; Maus, Sønke. (2016) NRK: Forskere eksperimenterer med olje i isen på Svalbard. NRK [Internett]. 2016-06-04.
Salomon, Martina Lan; Maus, Sønke; Arntsen, Martin; O'Sadnick, Megan; Petrich, Chris. (2016) Distribution of oil in sea ice: Laboratory Experiments for 3-dimensional microCT investigations. International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference Rhodes, Greece, June 26-July 1, 2016 ; Rhodes. 2016-06-26 - 2016-07-01.
Maus, Sønke. (2015) OIL SATURATION OF THE SEA ICE PORE SPACE. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions ; 2015-06-14.
Maus, Sønke. (2015) Sea ice imaging at synchrotron facilities. Norwegian Synchrotron User Meeting . Research Council of Norway; Sola Strand. 2015-01-19 - 2015-01-20.
Maus, Sønke; Donges, Jörn; Boller, Elodie; Wiese, Mareike; Rack, Alexander. (2015) Phase-contrast Imaging of Sea Ice. Interpore 2015 ; Padova. 2015-05-18.
Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan. (2015) Microtomographic imaging of the sea ice pore space. International Conference in memorial to the Austrian polar explorer and scientist Julius Payer. ; Viennea. 2015-11-10 - 2015-11-13.
Petrich, Chris; Maus, Sønke. (2015) Facebook: Her starter isprøver produsert i Narvik på sin lange reise fra Narvik jernbanestasjon til DESY Synchrotron i Hamburg. Facebook [Internett]. 2015-10-21.
Maus, Sønke; Wiegmann, Andreas. (2013) Fluid Transport through Sea Ice: 3d Microtomographic Imaging and Numerical Simulations. Non-linearities and upscaling in porous media, 2nd NUPUS conference . NUPUS; Bergen. 2013-09-30 - 2013-10-02.
Maus, Sønke; Wiegmann, Andreas. (2013) Transport properties of sea ice based on numerical simulations with 3d microtomographic images. Interpore 5th International Conference on Porous Media and Annual Meeting . Interpore; Prague. 2013-05-21 - 2013-05-24.
Maus, Sønke; Leisinger, Sabine; Schneebeli, Martin. (2012) An X-ray micro-tomographic study of sea ice percolation. Conference on seasonal snow and ice ; Lahti. 2012-05-28 - 2012-06-01.
Maus, Sønke. (2011) Synchrotron-based X-ray tomographic microscopy of sea ice. Ice deformation - from the model material to ice in natural environments . MICRODICE; Grenoble. 2011-11-07 - 2011-11-09.
Maus, Sønke. (2011) The role of temperature-dependent sea ice physical properties in shaping atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction and polar climate. Arctic Frontiers, ; Tromsoe. 2011-01-23 - 2011-01-28.
Richter, Kristin; Maus, Sønke. (2011) Interannual variability in the hydrography of the Norwegian Atlantic Current. EGU General Assembly ; 2011-04-03 - 2011-04-08.
Richter, Kristin; Maus, Sønke. (2011) Interannual variability in the hydrography of the Norwegian Atlantic Currrent. EGU General Assembly ; Vienna. 2011-04-03 - 2011-04-08.
De La Rosa, Sara; Maus, Sønke; Kern, S.. (2010) analysis of an evolving Grease to Pancake ice field. IGS International Symposium on Sea Ice in the Physical and Biogeochemical System ; Tromsø. 2010-05-31 - 2010-06-04.
Maus, Sønke. (2010) Contributions of frazil and columnar ice growth to heat and salt fluxes in the Storfjorden polynya. International Symposium on sea ice in the physical and geochemical system ; Tromsoe. 2010-05-31 - 2010-06-04.
Maus, Sønke. (2010) Ion fractionation and pore space geometry in young sea ice from Kongsfjorden. International Symposium on sea ice in the physical and geochemical system ; Tromsoe. 2010-05-31 - 2010-06-04.
Maus, Sønke. (2010) Sea ice chemistry issues in the focus of climate change. Arctic Frontiers ; Tromsoe. 2010-01-24 - 2010-01-29.
Richter, Kristin; Maus, Sønke. (2010) Variability of Atlantic water masses in the Svinøy section: Mechanisms, preferred time scales and relation to NAO. Water mass transformation in the Nordic Seas ; 2010-03-22 - 2010-03-23.
Ersdal, Eli Anne; Maus, Sønke; Kristoffersen, Yngve; Haas, Christian; John, Hall. (2009) A warmer Arctic Ocean: Some observations from a hovercraft. Arctic Frontiers ; 2009-01-21 - 2009-01-25.
Maus, Sønke. (2009) Synchrotron-based x-ray tomographic microscopy of sea ice. Arctic Frontiers ; Tromsoe. 2009-01-21 - 2009-01-25.
Maus, Sønke. (2009) Water mass variability in the Barents Sea: Atlantic Water advection versus sea ice import. Workshop on the Norwegian Atlantic Current, iAOOS Norway ; Tromsø,. 2009-08-31 - 2009-09-02.
Maus, Sønke. (2007) Flux dynamics near the seafloor. Sub-sea storage of CO2; The Marine Component . University of Bergen; Bergen. 2007-09-10 - 2007-09-11.

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