COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Glacier's Past Offers Clues to the Future
Description: University of Maine climate change scientist Karl Kreutz seeks to glean insight into future sea level rise on the planet. To do that, this past spring he was part of a research team that hiked a 14,000-foot mountain in Alaska, drilled through a glacier and collected two 700-foot, 3-inch-diameter ice cores encasing 1,000 years of regional climate history. [Source: University of Maine]
URL: http://umaine.edu/news/blog/2013/08/02/glaciers-past-offers-clues-to-the-future/
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Source: University of Maine
Publish Date: 8/2/2013
Reading Level: Basic
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