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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Atacama Desert of South America Desert Resource Management and Punctuated Environmental Change Greg Zaro & Alissa Dubois (text written by Alissa Dubois) The Cola de Zorro archaeological site between the Ilo and Tambo River valleys on the Southern Peruvian coast is situated in what is now one of the driest landscapes on Earth (Figure 1). […]
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Patagonia, Chile Reconstructing the Holocene glacial variations of the Hielo Patagonico Sur at Torres del Paine (51oS), southern South America Juan Luis García, February 2010 Uncovering the timing and extension of glaciers during the Holocene provide clues on the climate variability and its causes during this period. Since several decades glaciers records have been studied […]
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Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska – Denali National Park Modeling energy balance and melt layer formation on the Kahiltna Glacier, Alaska Dom Winski, Seth Campbell, Karl Kreutz A pressing scientific issue in glaciology is assessing the impact of climate change on glacier mass balance, local hydrology, and sea level rise. To address this issue, a detailed physical […]
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Tupungatito Caldera Glacier, Central Andes High-Elevation Ice Core Reconnaissance on Tupungatito Caldera Glacier, Central Andes, Chile Paul A. Mayewski, Gino Casassa, Gonzalo and Sebastian Camps, Daniel Dixon, Daniel Frye, Bjorn Grigholm, Andrei V. Kurbatov, Michael Morrison, Mario Potocki. (With indispensable assistance of local Arrieros: Fernando, Ismael, Marcelino and Antonio) The high elevation glaciers of the […]
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