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 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 […]
Read moreExpedition Report Published
Our 96 page report on the findings of the Northeast Greenland Caves Project 2015 expedition to Kronprins Christian Land, Northeast Greenland, has officially been published in memory of Charlie Self. The report has been written and edited by Dr. Gina Moseley, and contains additional contributions from: Chris Blakeley, Robbie Shone, Prof. Paul Smith, Prof. Christoph […]
Read moreShort film featured on National Geographic #bestjobever
National Geographic have published a short 2 minute film about our work in Greenland as part of their “Best Job Ever” series. We’re honoured to be included alongside people doing such great work out there.
Read moreRadio essay for BBC Radio 3 – the short and long versions
BBC Radio 3 invited Dr. Gina Moseley to write and record a creative essay for radio on the subject of our expedition to Greenland. Gina, who hasn’t done any creative writing in over 15 years, agreed to take up the challenge and really enjoyed it. A shortened version of the essay aired on Wednesday 9th […]
Read morePresenting the Project…
Presenting the work of the Project and perhaps more importantly the scientific rationale for the Project has always been high on our agenda. During the last few weeks, Gina has given three presentations to three very different audiences. In such instances, it isn’t just a simple case of presenting the same lecture three times over.
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