Northwest Greenland

This collaborative research project aims to develop records of Holocene climate in northwest Greenland and to synthesize these with records of the position of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin to evaluate the response of the ice sheet to past warm periods, such as the Holocene Climatic Optimum (~5 to 9 thousand years ago).  The research integrates multiple climate proxies and glaciological modeling experiments in the Thule region.

Results thus far are published in these papers: Lasher et al., 2017, Farnsworth et al., 2018, McFarlin et al., 2018 and Axford et al., 2019.

My collaborators on this project are Yarrow Axford (Northwestern University), Sean Birkel (University of Maine), Erich Osterberg (Dartmouth College) and graduate students at our respective institutions.

Funding for the Northwest Greenland research is from NSF (ARC-1107511).