Title

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A Glaciochemical Record of Natural and Anthropengic Environmental Change in the Northwestern North American Arctic

Investigators

Karl J. Kreutz, Principal Investigator; University of Maine, OronoFollow

Additional Participants

Graduate Student

Erich Osterberg

Alan Wanamaker

Nathan Vogan

Sean Birkel

Undergraduate Student

Zachary Von Hasseln

Alex Mondrick

Stephan Bastien

Marcienne Scofield

Technician, Programmer

Douglas Introne

Michael Handley

Michael Waskiewicz

Organizational Partners

University of New Hampshire

Geological Survey of Canada

Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

University of Ottawa

University of Alberta

Project Period

May 2002-April 2006

Level of Access

Open-Access Report

Grant Number

0136005

Submission Date

7-14-2006

Abstract

This is a collaborative proposal between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine and the Geological Survey of Canada. This Office of International Science and Engineering is contributing to this award. The Principal Investigators will recover two ice cores the Eclipse Icefield (3100 meters) in the St. Elias
Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Canada in 2002. The core will be analyzed for stable isotopes, major ions, trace elements, rare earth elements and persistent organic pollutants. The Eclipse record will provide, for the first time, detailed depositional histories of a wide variety of pollutants during the last 200 years in the remote northwest North American Arctic. Through the use of unique chemical tracers, the Principal Investigators will be able to identify source regions for these pollutants, changes in source regions with time, and the role of atmospheric circulation in controlling contaminant distributions in the northwest North American Arctic. The detailed multi-parameter record of natural and anthropogenic change will result in a greatly improved record of climate and environmental change for a region in which very few records currently exist.

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Recommended Citation

Kreutz, Karl J., "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A Glaciochemical Record of Natural and Anthropengic Environmental Change in the Northwestern North American Arctic" (2006). University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports. 208.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/orsp_reports/208