Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: climate change, glaciology, paleoclimatology, historical data, sea ice, sea level change
| Principal Investigator: | England, John H (15) |
| Licence Number: | 13459 |
| Organization: | University of Alberta |
| Licensed Year(s): |
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| Issued: | Jun 24, 2003 |
| Project Team: | Patrick La |
Objective(s): This research is concerned with the nature and style of past glaciations as well as the history of sea level and climatic changes. The broad objective is to obtain a long term paleoclimatic record from these former ice and sea level conditions. It will help to determine what past climatic conditions favoured the buildup and removal of former ice sheets in the western Arctic, and may provide insight on recent global warming, especially regarding the possibility of further reducing the remaining glaciers and sea ice cover. Sea level rise is widespread in the western islands and other factors that are contributing to it, such as the ongoing lowering of the coastlines themselves, are being documented. High latitude areas such as the Canadian High 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.
