Reconstructing Late Holocene Climate Change in the Central Canadian High Arctic Using Laminated Sediments

Investigator: Michael J. Retelle MRETELLE@BAT.BATES.EDU  (Principal Investigator current)

Abstract

Abstract  ATM-9809963  Ratelle, Michael J.  Bates College  Title: Reconstructing Late Holocene Climate Change in the Central  Canadian High Arctic Using Laminated Sediments     This award supports a study of late Holocene climate change in the  central Canadian arctic archipelago using laminated lacustrine and  marine sediments.  In addition, through studies of modern  climatological, hydrological, and sedimentological processes in  several basins containing varves, researchers will attempt to  understand some of the complexities linking the varved sediment  record to the climate system, thus providing an accurate means for  interpreting the paleoclimate record in the sediments.  The major  focus of these studies is to evaluate the impacts and significance  of climate changes of the last millennia, particularly the impacts  and regional variability of the Medieval Warm period and Little Ice  Age.  Varved sediment records from the region will extend the  detailed information from instrumental records (post-1950) and  provide a spatial resolution to accompany paleoclimatic information  from other source.