We are delighted to announce that our project leader, Prof. Gina Moseley, has been named as a 2021 Laureate of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. The Rolex Awards were established 45 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rolex Oyster, the world’s first waterproof wristwatch. The Awards received so much interest that Rolex […]
Read morePaper in Science Advances!
In 2015 the first Greenland Caves Project expedition to northeast Greenland took place. The caves had been discovered in 1960 as part of US Army Cold War activities in the Arctic. One of these caves was reported to contain a calcite flowstone deposit that could potentially provide important information about how this region responds in […]
Read moreNew paper on modern precipitation characteristics published
We are very pleased to announce that an article looking into precipitation characteristics between 1979 to 2017 has just been published in the open-access EGU journal Weather and Climate Dynamics. This work was led by M.Sc. student Lilian Schuster, who did an amazing job analysing all the model runs. Lagrangian detection of precipitation moisture sources […]
Read moreBlog post for Austrian Young Academy of Sciences in Der Standard
Wie Höhlen die Klimavorhersagen verbessern This is the title of a new blog post written by project leader Prof. Gina Moseley about using caves for climate change research. Naturally the work in Greenland features! To read the post, in German, visit here.
Read more2019 Expedition Report Published
We’re really pleased to announce that our 2019 expedition report has been published as a thematic issue of the British Cave Research Association journal Cave and Karst Science (vol. 47 (2)). The report is available as an open-access free download from here and includes the following: Moseley, G.E. Guest Editorial. Cave and Karst Science 47, […]
Read moreGreenland Caves Project at the European Geoscience Union General Assembly
This year the EGU General Assembly took place in the online format Sharing Geoscience Online. It was an exciting and successful experiment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In total 18,036 abstracts were submitted to 701 scientific sessions. Members of the Greenland Caves Project submitted two abstracts: Moseley, G.E., Edwards, R.L., Spötl, C., Cheng, H., […]
Read more2019 Expedition to Northeast Greenland
Note: this post is a repeat of the page ‘2019 Expedition Summary’ Summary: An interdisciplinary team comprising researchers from the Universities of Innsbruck, Akron, Oxford, and Sheffield has recently returned from a successful expedition to a remote area of Northeast Greenland located at 80°N. The expedition, which was funded through an FWF Start Prize to […]
Read moreProject leader is awarded prestigious Austrian START prize
Our project leader, Dr Gina Moseley from the University of Innsbruck’s Quaternary Research Group has recently received one of this year’s prestigious Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) START prizes. The START programme is an Austrian initiative to support and strengthen outstanding research projects in science and humanities. Congratulations Gina! The €1.2 million START prize from the […]
Read moreSample preparations in progress
Sample preparation at the @uniinnsbruck before the lab work at the @umnpics * * * #science #scientist #scientists #womeninscience #lab #laboratory #labcoat #research #researcher #stem #womeninstem #geology #geography #chemistry #drill #climatechange #climate #greenland A post shared by NE Greenland Caves Project (@negreenland_caves) on Apr 14, 2018 at 11:52am PDT
Read moreKarst Record Conference
Climate Change, The Karst Record, is a conference held every four years, which brings together researchers from all over the world who are working on answering questions about climate change using archives found in karst environments. This year the 8th conference was held at the University of Austin, Texas. Gina attended the conference and presented […]
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