Investigating Arctic paleoclimates
Professor Jakobsson gives an overview of the five-year paleoclimate project he will be involved with, how sediment cores are drilled, and what researchers can learn from what they contain.
Articles & Interviews
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Dr. José Xavier: winner of the 2011 Martha T. Muse Prize
Dr. José Xavier discusses the predator-prey dynamics in the Southern Ocean as well as Portugal's increasing involvement in polar research.
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East Antarctica’s vulnerability to climate change and the quest for the oldest ice
Dr. Tas van Ommen discusses the ICECAP project, why the Aurora Basin region of East Antarctica can be vulnerable as climate and oceans warm, and the search for the oldest ice in Antarctica.
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What ice cores from Law Dome can tell us about past and current climates
Dr van Ommen discusses ice core dynamics, why Law Dome is an important location to extract ice cores, and how information extracted from these ice cores give us a better understanding of past climate.
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A closer look at carbon cycling in Antarctica
Dr. Bruno Delille gives us insight into carbon cycling in Antarctica - how carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, marine life forms and deep ocean waters.
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The measured and the catastrophic: glacial and ice sheet melt
How much does meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets contribute to sea level rise? Professor David Vaughan explains.
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Ice2sea: providing the IPCC with better sea level rise projections
Professor Vaughan discusses the role and importance of research programmes in providing us with projections for sea level rise over the next two centuries.
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Arctic sea ice in a changing climate
Professor David Barber discusses the current state of sea ice in the Arctic, projected future trends and their possible impacts on the Arctic and beyond.
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Willi Dansgaard: pioneer of paleoclimate research
Professor Willi Dansgaard was a Danish geophysicist and paleoclimatologist who made tremendous contributions to the study of the Earth’s past climates through the study of ice cores.
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The importance of keeping tabs on biodiversity in Antarctica
Bruno Danis talks about SCAR-MarBIN, a new related project called ANTABIF (Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility), and the importance of keeping these networks running.
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Greenland Ice Sheet melt and the complexities of sea level rise
Greenland Ice Sheet expert Konrad Steffen explains his research and the ice sheet's contributions to sea level rise.
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The current state of permafrost
As an environmental and engineering problems involving ice and permafrost, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky discusses the current state of permafrost and what kind of research has been done and still needs to happen.