Eastern arctic climate of the past 2000 years: the Varved Lake sediment record
chercheur principal: Overpeck, Jonathan (3)
Nᵒ de permis: 12349
Organisation: University of Colorado
Année(s) de permis: 1993 1991 1989
Délivré: janv. 01, 1993
Équipe de projet: J. Cole, L. Doner, K. Hughen

Objectif(s): To continue to reconstruct and understand climate change in the eastern Canadian arctic over the past 2000 years; more specifically, to collect sediment cores from four lakes as part of an effort to expand our network of paleoclimatic records from the region.

Description du projet: The goal of our ongoing project is to collect samples of mud from the bottom of several undisturbed lakes on southern Baffin Island. In the laboratory, we will then examine the chemistry, texture and fossils found in this mud in an effort to document how the environment (mainly climate) of this region has changed over the past 2000 years. We hope that this work will eventually aid efforts to improve predictions of climate change in the future.