Collaborative Research: Grounding-line retreat in the southern Ross Sea – constraints from Scott Glacier Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley, Nate Nietkiewicz December 2007 – January 2008; December 2008 – January 2009 We are investigating late Pleistocene and Holocene changes in Scott Glacier, a key outlet glacier that flows directly into the Ross Sea just west of […]
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Beartooth Mountains, Glacier National Park Climate-Induced Shifts in Alpine Diatom Communities: Linking Neoecological and Paleoecological Approaches to Incorporate Responses to Trophic Forcing Jasmine Saros, Andrea Nurse Field assistants from CCI: Carmen Daggett, Courtney Wigdahl, Randall Perry July 2007, August 2007, August 2008, July 2009 Diatom fossils from lake sediments in the central and northern Rocky […]
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Acadia National Park (Maine) & Isle Royale National Park (Michigan) Determine critical nitrogen loads to boreal lake ecosystems using the response of phytoplankton Jasmine Saros, Carmen Daggett, Heather Arnett Air pollution has affected and continues to threaten many boreal lake ecosystems in the U.S. national parks. The lakes of Acadia and Isle Royale National Parks […]
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Glacier History of the Western United States – Wind River Range, Wyoming & the Sierra Nevada, California Aaron Putnam, Sean Birkel, George Denton, Kathryn Ladig Collaborators: Joerg M. Schaefer (Columbia University), Edward B. Evenson (Lehigh University), David E. Putnam (University of Maine – Presque Isle), Peter Quesada, Peter Huybers (Harvard University), Richard B. Alley (Penn […]
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New Zealand 2009 Ice Core Drilling in the Southern Alps Daniel Dixon The mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere have proven particularly challenging for ice core retrieval and interpretation. Glaciers in southern South America and the Southern Alps experience extraordinarily high rates of snow fall and melt which compromises the length and integrity of records from […]
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Pamir 2009 Ice Cores and Glaciological Surveys at Fedchenko Glacier, Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan Bjorn Grigholm Elena Korotkikh The high elevation snowfields of the Pamir contain robust records documenting: moisture advection into central Asia from the Atlantic and Arctic; dynamics of the westerly jet stream, the Siberian High; the Asian monsoon; and naturally and humanly forced […]
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Greenland 2009 Greenland Margin Ice sampling and the Cause of the Younger Dryas What caused the Younger Dryas, a period of dramatic climate change that coincided with the extinction of many large North American land mammals and a shift in Paleo-Indian culture? In 2008 Climate Change Institute scientists Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov and Jørgen Peder […]
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Torres del Paine, Chile Assessing the effects of glacial meltwater on lake ecosystems in Torres del Paine, Chile Carmen Daggett, Juan Garcia Recent research in the Rocky Mountains of North America has revealed that melt water from glaciers and rock glaciers is rich in nitrate. These streams of melt water drain into lake ecosystems, thereby […]
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Northern Great Plains – North Dakota The Role of Dissolved Organic Material in Regulating Primary Production in Prairie Saline Lakes Jasmine Saros, Courtney Wigdahl, Carmen Daggett August 2006, May 2009 Lake ecosystems are often defined in terms of a trophic paradigm, in which lake productivity is considered a direct function of nutrient loading. This paradigm […]
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