GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND HUMAN/ECOSYSTEMS RESILIENCE IN THE ISLANDS OF THE FOUR MOUNTAINS, ALASKA
Project Director: Kirsten Nicolaysen (Whitman College) Number of students: 3 Approximate dates: July 24 to August 20th Project summaryAssessing the degree to which geological hazards in the Aleutian archipelago disrupted prehistoric human and ecological systems has...HOLOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGE AND ACTIVE TECTONICS IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES: IMPACTS ON GLACIERS AND LAKES
What: We will generate continuous records of mountain glaciation in Peru that span the Holocene (~12 ka to present) through an approach that combines the acquisition and analysis of lake sediment cores with moraine dating using both lichenometry and cosmogenic...ANTARCTIC PLIOCENE AND LOWER PLEISTOCENE (GELASIAN) PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTED FROM OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM WEDDELL SEA CORES
Investigation of the sedimentary record of Antarctic climate change with a focus on Pliocene of the Weddell Sea. Today the densest ocean water, Antarctic Bottom Water, is formed in the Weddell Sea. Yet, the sedimentary history of the Weddell Sea basin is poorly...GEOMORPHOLOGIC AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONTANA
What: We will be working on reconstructing past environmental and geomorphic conditions in Glacier National Park through collection and analysis of lake sediment cores. There is broad interest in the future of our National Park system, particularly Glacier National...Keep in Touch!
