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The Island Of Amsterdamøya: A Key Site For Studying Past Climate In The Arctic Archipelago Of Svalbard, Jostein Bakke, Nicholas Balascio, Willem G.M. Van Der Bilt, Raymond Bradley, William J. D' Andrea, Marthe Gjerde, Sædís Ólafsdóttir, Torgeir Røthe, Greg De Wet

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

This paper introduces a series of articles assembled in a special issue that explore Holocene climate evolution, as recorded in lakes on the Island of Amsterdamøya on the westernmost fringe of the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Due to its location near the interface of oceanic and atmospheric systems sourced from Arctic and Atlantic regions, Amsterdamøya is a key site for recording the terrestrial response to marine and atmospheric changes. We employed multi-proxy approaches on lake sediments, integrating physical, biogeochemical, and isotopic analyses to infer past changes in temperature, precipitation, and glacier activity. The results comprise a series of quantitative Holocene-length paleoclimate …