Achievement

The Field Seminar gave students first-hand experience in ways to frame their research within the IGERT model of interdisciplinary collaborative work and it stimulated new research in Greenland. Preliminary research accomplishments include: 1. Whitecloud with a linguist (Grenoble) documented local uses of plants and the linguistic encoding of this knowledge. 2. Levy (Earth Sciences) constrained the previously poorly known ages of glacial moraines near Kangerlussuag by 10Be isotope dating. 3. Bradley-Cook (Ecology) made a vegetation map from multi-spectral satellite imagery to develop a spatially explicit estimate of soil carbon storage and flux for the Kangerlussuag region. 4. Wong (Earth Sciences) with the 2010 cohort examined the chemical and physical signature of induced (artificial warming) snowmelt at Summit. He found a diminution in major ions in the uppermost seasonal snow concluding that areas not now experiencing melt should record this event in snow profile chemistry.