Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: physical sciences, climate change, prediction models, paleoclimatology, environmental change, glacial history, glaciation
| Principal Investigator: | Lajeunesse, Patrick (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13336 |
| Organization: | University of Alberta |
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| Issued: | Jun 23, 2002 |
| Project Team: | Dr. John E |
Objective(s): This research is concerned with the nature and style of glaciation as well as sea level changes and past climatic changes. The broad objective of the research is to obtain a long term paleoclimatic record (before the arrival of the Pre-Dorset people) from these former ice conditions. It will also help to determine whether this scale of glaciation could happen again in the future or with ongoing global warming will glaciers and sea ice be progressively removed from the Arctic high latitude areas such as the Canadain Arctic provide diverse records of past global changes since they are generally the first regions to be affected by climate variability. Hence, it is of prime importance to obtain more data from these regions and to replace them in a context of much longer environmental changes in order to have a better understanding of possible future climate conditions.
