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Yarrow Axford
William Deering Professor in Geological Sciences, Northwestern University
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A Biological Tipping Point? Sediment Accumulation Rates from a South Greenland Lake Point to an Abrupt Late Holocene Drop in Primary Productivity
PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EARTH’S POLAR REGIONS: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE III POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2023
Mia Tuccillo, Bailey C. Nash, Shayna Garla, Peter ...
In the context of accelerated anthropogenic Arctic warming, understanding the sensitivity of Arctic aquatic primary production to environmental change...
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Developing a Proxy for Seasonality of Arctic Climate: δ18O of Seasonal Aquatic Moss Growth
PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EARTH’S POLAR REGIONS: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 11 december 2023
Peter Puleo, Magdalena R. Osburn, Mia Tuccillo, Pe...
Understanding past arctic climate seasonality is fundamental to understanding past climate changes and for improving projections of future glacier mas...
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Plant colonization and response to late glacial abrupt climate change in south Greenland, viewed through leaf waxes and pollen
PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EARTH'S POLAR REGIONS: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 16 december 2022
Magdalena R. Osburn, Bianca Fréchette, Peter Puleo...
The late glacial to Holocene transition was a time of profound landscape change in the arctic punctuated by abrupt climate changes. In southern Greenl...
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Timing and Ice Thickness of the Late Holocene Narsarsuaq Advance, South Greenland, from Lake Sediments
HOW STABLE IS THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET? PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE I ORAL
cryosphere | 16 december 2022
Peter Puleo, Yarrow Axford
Past glacier extents are key climate proxies that are also sensitive to local glaciological factors. The Little Ice Age is thought to have been the co...
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Accelerated Retreat of Greenland’s Peripheral Glaciers in the Twenty-First Century
OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS OF GLACIER CHANGE II ORAL
cryosphere | 16 december 2022
Laura Larocca, Max Twining-Ward, Yarrow Axford, Kr...
Glaciers and ice caps (GICs) peripheral to the Greenland Ice Sheet have contributed substantially to sealevel rise this century. However, measurements...
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Compound-Specific Isotopes Record Incorporation of Methane-Derived H into Aquatic Plant Waxes in Arctic Lakes during the Middle Holocene
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AS ENVIRONMENTAL PROXIES: DEVELOPMENT, CALIBRATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2022
Jamie McFarlin, Yarrow Axford, Stephanie Kusch, An...
Plant wax hydrogen isotope values are highly correlated to the hydrogen isotopic composition (δ2H) of their growth water globally. Sedimentary plant w...
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Long-Term Perspectives on Recent Tundra Fires in Southwest Greenland from Lake Sediments
HISTORICAL AND PALEO PERSPECTIVES ON FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2022
Melissa L. Chipman, Yarrow Axford
Increasingly warm and dry conditions in many parts of the Arctic are resulting in unprecedented fire activity. In 2017, Southwest Greenland experience...
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Younger Dryas and Early Holocene Climate in South Greenland Inferred from Chironomid, Moss, and Cellulose Oxygen Isotopes at Lake N14
UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE FROM THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM TO PRESENT IV POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2021
Peter Puleo, Yarrow Axford, Andrew Masterson, Magd...
The last glacial-interglacial transition had major climate swings over Greenland. The Younger Dryas (YD) was an abrupt shift into cold conditions acro...
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