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Collaborative Research: Sensitivity Of Local Glaciers In Central East Greenland To Holocene Climate Change, Brenda Hall
Collaborative Research: Sensitivity Of Local Glaciers In Central East Greenland To Holocene Climate Change, Brenda Hall
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
This award will support an investigation of Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Scoresby Sund region of central East Greenland (~70-72¿N, 22-28¿W) along a transect from a coastal maritime setting to the continental conditions adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet. The 'Intellectual Merit' of the proposed study lies in the potential to affirm, or otherwise, the widely-held view that the scale of glacier and ice sheet change being observed today in Greenland is not unique in the Holocene. The current recession of glaciers in the Scoresby Sund region is exposing sub-fossil vegetation that grew at times when glaciers were smaller than …