PBS NewsHour Reports on Climate Change Research by Kreutz, Student in Alaska
PBS NewsHour reported on research by University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz in a video titled “Scientists read layers of Alaska’s ice and snow to track climate change.” With support from the National Science Foundation, Kreutz and his team are working to reconstruct the climate history of the area around Alaska’s Denali National Park over the last thousand years. The researchers are studying ice depth measurements to determine the relationship between temperature and precipitation rate, and the response of glaciers to climate changes. Seth Campbell, a UMaine alumnus and geophysicist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Abigail Bradford, an undergraduate student in the UMaine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, also were featured in the video. “There’s thousands of glaciers in Alaska, and very few have had data gathered on them. So we’re hoping to piece that puzzle together,” Bradford said.