PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Bendixen’s Google Scholar profile
2025
New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century
Kavan, J., Szczypińska, M., Kochtitzky, W., Farquharson, L., Bendixen, M., & Strzelecki, M. C. (2025).
Nature Climate Change, 15, 2282.
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Nation-wide mapping shows linkages between sand mining activities, human land use, and hydrology in Rwanda
Huang, K., Iversen, L. L., Fensholt, R., Gominski, D., Brandt, M., Mugabowindekwe, M., Strange, N., & Bendixen, M. (2025).
One Earth, 8, 101236.
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Mapping the global impact of mining activities on freshwater biodiversity to inform conservation priorities
Brabant, C., Noorbhai, N., Bendixen, M., & Iversen, L. L. (2025).
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 35, 70094.
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Continental mapping of African sand mining highlights limited benefits for local infrastructure and socio-economic development
Noorbhai, N., Iversen, L. L., Rogers, K. G., Kübler, S., Brabant, C., Zhou, J., & Bendixen, M. (2025).
One Earth, 8, 101204.
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DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas
Bendixen, M., Roberge, B., Park, J., Didier, D., Boisson, A., Yorston, H., Trottier, L., Hoblyn, A., Lee, J., MacDonald, S., Zhao, S., Traboulsee, L., Rebillard, A., & Iversen, L. L. (2025).
Scientific Data, 12, 291.
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2024
Freshwater ecosystem transitions due to artisanal sand mining in Rwanda, Africa
Iversen, L. L., Mugabowindekwe, M., Bizimana, J. P., & Bendixen, M. (2024).
Science of The Total Environment, 957, 177792.
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Towards a holistic understanding of artisanal aggregate mining in Rwanda
Bendixen, M., Huang, K., Dos Santos, N., Mugabowindekwe, M., Twizere, M., Habinema, P., & Iversen, L. L. (2024).
The Extractive Industries and Society, 19, 101471.
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Pre-Print: New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the 21st century
Kavan, J., Szczypińska, M., Kochtitzky, W., Farquharson, L., Bendixen, M., & Strzelecki, M. (2024).
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2023
Drivers and effects of construction-sand mining in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bendixen, M., Noorbhai, N., Zhou; J., Iversen, L.L., Huang, K. (2023).
The Extractive Industries and Society 16, 101364.
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Managing exploitation of freshwater species and aggregates to protect and restore freshwater biodiversity.
Cooke, S. , Piczak, M.L., Nyboer, E., Michalski, F., Bennett, A., Koning, A. A., Hughes, K.A., Chen, Y., Wu, J., Cowx, I., Koehnken, L., Raghavan, R., Pompeu, P. S., Phang, S., Valbo-Jorgensen, J., Bendixen, M., Torres, A., Getahun, A., Kondolf, G. M., Acreman, M. C., Song, A. M., Taylor, W.
Environmental Reviews
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Putting Africa on the map
Bendixen, M., Kanhema, T. Iversen L.
Nature Africa
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Awareness of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Greenland
Minor, K., Lund-Jensen, M., Hamilton, L., Bendixen, M., Dreyer Lassen, D., Rosing, M.
Nature Climate Change 13, 661–670.
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Sedimentary Coastal Cliff Erosion in Greenland
Luetzenburg, G., Townsend, D., Svennevig, K., Bendixen, M., Bjørk, A.A., Eidam E.F., Kroon, A.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 128 (4), e2022JF00702.
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Denmark’s exemplary gender balance trips up in science
Mette Bendixen, Claire Meehan, Vanessa Jane Hall & Ida Vogel
Nature 572, 178 (2019)
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Time is running out for sand
Mette Bendixen, Jim Best, Chris Hackney & Lars Lønsmann Iversen
Nature 571, 29-31.
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One Couple, two cities: How to handle an international career move
Mette Bendixen & Lars Lønsmann Iversen
Nature 550, 101-104
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Promises and Perils of Sand exploitation in Greenland
Mette Bendixen, Irina Overeem, Minik Rosing, Anders Anker Bjørk, Kurt H. Kjaer, Aart Kroon, Gavin Zeitz & Lars Lønsmann Iversen
Nature Sustainability, 2, 98-104.
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2018
Funding agencies can prevent harassment
Lars Lønsmann Iversen & Mette Bendixen
Science, 361, pp. 140
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2017
Greenland: Build an economy on sand
Mette Bendixen, Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Irina Overeem
Science, 358, 879-879
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Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss
Mette Bendixen, Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Anders Anker Bjørk, Bo Elberling, Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen, Irina Overeem, Katy R Barnhart, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Jason E Box, Jakob Abermann, Kirsty Langley, Aart Kroon
Nature 550, 101-104
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Deltas, freshwater discharge, and waves along the Young Sound, NE Greenland
Aart Kroon, Jakob Abermann, Mette Bendixen, Magnus Lund, Charlotte Sigsgaard, Kirstine Skov, Birger Ulf Hansen
Ambio 46 (1), 132-145
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Conceptualizing delta forms and processes in Arctic coastal environments
Mette Bendixen, Aart Kroon
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Volume 42, Issue 8, 1227–1237
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2014
Lars B Clemmensen, Mette Bendixen, Mikkel U Hede, Aart Kroon, Lars Nielsen, Andrew S Murray
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Volume 39, Issue 4, 499–508
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2013
Mette Bendixen, Lars B Clemmensen, Aart Kroon
Marine Geology Volume 344, 53-64
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Mikkel U Hede, Mette Bendixen, Lars B Clemmensen, Aart Kroon, Lars Nielsen
The Holocene Volume 23, Issue 9, 1238-1246
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2012
Lars B Clemmensen, Lars Nielsen, Mette Bendixen, Andrew Murray
Boreas Volume 41, Issue 3, 422-434
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2011
Coastal evolution of a cuspate foreland (Flakket, Anholt, Denmark) between 2006-2010
Lars B Clemmensen, Mette Bendixen, Lars Nielsen, Sabrina Jensen, Louise Schrøder
Bulletin of Geological Society of Denmark. Vol. 59, p. 37-42.
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