In a new paper, Alan Condron (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), CSRC Director Ray Bradley, and graduate student Anthony Joyce propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted climate-steering currents, thus playing an important role in causing past abrupt climate change after the last Ice Age. See the full press release and the paper published in Geology.
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Julie Brigham-Grette on PBS NOVA “Polar Extremes”
Julie Brigham-Grette recently appeared on the NOVA special Polar Extremes, which takes viewers on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. In the episode Professor Brigham-Grette described her research on past climates drawn from long sediment cores from Lake El’gygytgyn in NE Russia. The interval from 1:03:18 to 1:08:00 focuses on this research. The 2 hour special premiered February 5, 2020. See it here.