Events
Upcoming AGU Fall Meeting 2023
San Francisco, CA & Online Everywhere
11-15 December, 2023
Join us at The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023. Visit the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 to learn more about the event.
Oral Sessions
Joerg Schaefer
Abstract Title: The basal zone beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet as new paleo-archive to constrain ice sheet vulnerability in space and time– early lessons from the GreenDrill project
Session Title: Past Climate Change in Earth’s Polar Regions: Lessons for the Future I
Session Date and Time: Monday, 11 December 2023; 14:10 – 15:40 PST
Presentation Length: 15:22 – 15:32 PST
Location: Moscone Center, 3024 - West
Allie Balter-Kennedy
Abstract Title: First Results from GreenDrill: Exposure dating in sub-ice material from Prudhoe Dome, northwestern Greenland
Session Title: Archives and Observations from Subice Environments II Oral
Session Date and Time: Monday, 11 December 2023; 16:00 – 17:30 PST
Presentation Length: 17:00 – 17:10 PST
Location: Moscone Center, 2005 - West
Margie Turrin
Abstract Title: Polar Climate Ambassadors: Expanding polar science literacy through high school student ambassadors
Session Title: Arctic Education and Outreach: Effective Ways of Engaging Diverse Learners in Arctic Science Oral
Session Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 December 2023; 08:30 – 10:00 PST
Presentation Length: 09:24 – 09:33 PST
Location: Moscone Center, 203 - South
Poster Sessions
Jason Briner
Abstract Title: Holocene ice-sheet history at the Prudhoe Dome margin, NW Greenland: Samples for exposure dating (CRN and OSL) beneath and beyond the ice margin
Session Title: Archives and Observations from Subice Environments I Poster
Session Date and Time: Monday, December 11th; 8:30 AM – 12:50 PM PST
Location: Moscone Center, South, Poster Hall A-C
Elliot Moravec
Abstract Title: Unique IDP Sub-Ice Drilling Yields Success for Science in Greenland
Session Title: Archives and Observations from Subice Environments I Poster
Session Date and Time: Monday, December 11th; 8:30 AM – 12:50 PM PST
Location: Moscone Center, South, Poster Hall A-C
Caleb Walcott
Abstract Title: Ancient landscapes in Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland were preserved during Last Glacial Maximum ice cover
Session Title: Landscape Evolution Beneath and Beyond the Ice II Poster
Session Date and Time: Monday, December 11th; 2:10 PM – 6:30 PM PST
Location: Moscone Center, South, Poster Hall A-C
Videos
Jason Briner talk given for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst seminar series Fall 2022.
Debuting on American Geophysical Union TV at the December 2022 meeting (#AGU22), GreenDrill researchers Joerg Schaefer, Gisela Winckler, Allie Balter-Kennedy, and Margie Turrin of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and University at Buffalo's Jason Briner discuss their work to diagnose the trauma to Greenland's ice sheet, and pinpoint its most vulnerable areas and impacts to coastal communities.
News
Buried Under Ice, (Sarah Kaplan et al.)
The Washington Post, August 25, 2023
2023 Arctic Ice Drilling Sites
U.S. Ice Drilling Program website, 2023
Greenland drilling campaign aims for bedrock to trace ice sheet's last disappearance
Science, July 2, 2020
Groundbreaking Project Will Drill Into Bedrock Below Greenland Ice to Understand Past and Future Melting
State of the Planet, July 16, 2020
Bedrock drilling project to unlock Greenland Ice Sheet’s secrets
University at Buffalo, July 16, 2020
Greenland bedrock drilling project to understand past, future ice sheet melting
PennState, July 16, 2020
Greendrill — discovering Greenland’s ancient past
University of Massachusetts Amherst, July 20, 2020
Publications
Joerg M.Schaefer, Robert C. Finkel, Greg Balco, Richard B. Alley, Marc W. Caffee, Jason P. Briner, Nicolas E. Young, Anthony J. Gow & Roseanne Schwartz, 2016, Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene
Jason P. Briner, Caleb K. Walcott, Joerg M. Schaefer, Nicolás E. Young, Joseph A. MacGregor, Kristin Poinar, Benjamin A. Keisling, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Mary R. Albert, Tanner Kuhl and Grant Boeckmann, 2022, Where to GreenDrill? Site selection for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating of the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Joerg M. Schaefer, Robert DeConto, Jason P. Briner, Nicolás E. Young, Caleb Walcott, Gisela Winckler, Allie Balter-Kennedy , Sridhar Anandakrishnan, 2022, Greenland ice sheet vulnerability under diverse climatic warming scenarios https://doi.org/10.31223/X5Q05T
GreenDrill is funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs.
