Geodynamicist Peter Koons is a world leader in understanding the interactions among tectonics, surface evolution and climate change. His models characterizing the evolution of the landscape could one day forecast how the Earth will respond to changes to come. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]
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Watching glaciers move can be tedious. Things don’t happen very fast. But University of Maine graduate student Leigh Stearns has found a way to make the science lesson fun and understandable. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today website
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Last winter, University of Maine master’s student Aaron Putnam was in the TransAntarctic Mountains on an expedition that included some extreme rock collecting. He and members of a research team rappelled into wind-carved ice moats, scaled sheer cliffs and chipped away at boulders, looking for clues about the stability of the two ice sheets that […]
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Reconnaissance Research in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan Susan Kaspari and Bjorn Gringholm, UMaine Dr. Vladimir Aizen, University of Idaho Arzhan Surazakov and Dan Joswiak, UIdaho July 16 – August 6, 2005 The high elevation snowfields of the Pamir and Tien Shan contain robust records documenting: moisture advection into central Asia from the Atlantic and Arctic; […]
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East Greenland Glaciology Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns June 22 – July 26, 2005 Recent studies of the Greenland Ice Sheet show that the largest changes are taking place near the ice sheet margins. These changes include an increase in the spatial extent, seasonal duration, and intensity of surface melting, as well as rapid ice […]
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Glacial Geologic Investigations of the Nevado Firura Glacier, Peru Kurt Radamaker, Gordon Bromley and Louis Fortin June 15 – July 14, 2005 Recent geoarchaeological investigations in the Andes of southern Peru are providing valuable information about the early human settlement of South America, the possible relationship between the highlands and the coast, and adaptation to […]
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Meteorological Controls on Snow Accumulation, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada Alan Wanamaker and Zachary Von Hassein June 8 – June 27, 2005 The Arctic represents one of the key regions on Earth in our efforts to document and understand global change. The sensitivity of the Arctic to climate perturbations and the wealth of paleoenvironmental […]
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Ice Cores from Mt. Logan, Yukon Territory, Canada Erich Osterberg, Gerald Holdsworth (University of Calgary), Steve Bartolo May 1 to June 15, 2005 We intend to collect ice cores and snow pit samples, and install weather stations on Mt. Logan, Yukon, Canada, in order to investigate the climate history of the North Pacific over the […]
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Graduate student Kurt Rademaker struck anthropological gold last summer. High in the Peruvian Andes, he discovered prehistoric quarries of obsidian, the volcanic glass used in toolmaking. His discovery could be the key to understanding how humans settled South America. To access the complete UMaine Today Magazine article, please visit the following website: UMaine Today […]
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Glacial history and climate reconstruction, Patagonia George Denton and Marcus Vandergoes, UMaine Jorge Strelin, Ushuia, Argentina March 16 to April 20, 2005 The goals of this project are to produce detailed records of glacier recession during the last deglaciation and Holocene. Mapping and sampling of glacial deposits around Lago Argentina and the Upsala Glacier will […]
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