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Yarrow Axford
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Focus Areas:
Climate Change, Geology, Ice Melt, Sea Level Change
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Amanda Morris
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
About
Areas of Focus
- Polar climate change and glacier retreat
- Arctic ice melt
- Paleoclimate, Earth’s climate history
Work/Research
- Reconstructs Arctic climate history using geological methods including paleolimnology (lake sediment cores) and paleoecology (biological remains used as tracers of past climate)
- Studies impacts of climate change on Greenland’s glaciers and ice sheet and on sea levels
- Explores past warm periods in Earth’s history, especially the Holocene and Last Interglacial
- Conducts field-based investigations at remote sites