Climate Change Institute

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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