Climate Change Institute

Glacial History and climate reconstruction from the South Island, New Zealand George Denton, Marcus Vandergoes January 1, 2004 to February 28, 2004            The goals of this project are to produce detailed reconstructions of glacier history and climate change during the last 30,000 years (Late Quaternary). Mapping of glacial deposits to […]

Dynamics of the Blue Ice Regions in Antarctica Andrei Kurbatov, Leigh Stearns, Vandy Blue Spikes John Moore, University of Lapland January 10, 2004 to February 20, 2004 An earlier award to Drs. G. Zielinski (UMaine) and N. Dunbar (New Mexico Tech) resulted in the collection of ‘horizontal ice core’ at the Mount Moulton blue ice […]

Late Quaternary History of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley (UMaine) Claire Todd, John Stone, Howard Conway, and Maurice Conway (UWashington) November 18, 2003 to January 1, 2004 We will reconstruct the level of Reedy Glacier, in the far southern Transantarctic Mountains, from the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) through to the present day. Because […]

Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica Karl Kreutz, Bruce Williamson, Erich Osterberg October 18, 2003 to December 10, 2003 The goals of this project are to collect and develop high-resolution ice core records from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, and provide interpretations of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability during the last 2000 […]

Ice Cores from South Island, New Zealand Paul Meyewski and Andrei Kurbatov, UMaine Uwe Morgenstern, Institute of Geology and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand October 27, 2003 to November 17, 2003 Paul and Andrei are collecting ice cores from the Tasman Glacier, South Island New Zealand. These cores will help extend our knowledge of the […]

Ice Cores from Central Tibet Shichang Kang and Susan Kaspari in Tibet September 4, 2003 to October 23, 2003     This is the third year we have sent an expedition to Tibet collecting ice cores from the high mountain glaciers. Shichang Kang, (left) Research Associtate of the Institute and member of the Cold and […]