Regions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
Tags: physical sciences, climate change, sediment, fossils, paleoclimatology, paleoenvironment, environmental change
| Principal Investigator: | Overpeck, Jonathan (3) |
| Licence Number: | 12349 |
| Organization: | University of Colorado |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1993
1991
1989
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1993 |
| Project Team: | J. Cole, L. Doner, K. Hughen |
Objective(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.
Project Description: 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.
