Holocene history of Svalbard ice caps and glaciers RiS ID 10122

The project aims to reconstruct Holocene (i.e. last 11.700 years) ice cap and glacier variations on Svalbard, using threshold lake sediment records. Threshold lake sediment cores are excellent for this because they contain glacial on/off signals (changes between organic and minerogennic sediments). They can also be dated with 14C to obtain very accurate chronologies. To obtain good spatial and temporal coverage, we have already cored lakes on Nordaustlandet and in Wijdefjorden in 2015-16 and now apply for a coring campaign on North Spitsbergen in the summer of 2017. The application concerns fieldwork costs for Anders Schomacker and a PhD student at UiT.