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 moreEAGRE18 film released
We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to share this new short film with you on our 2018 expedition to East Greenland. Yes, it has taken a little while to get together! Anyway, it is now finally here and available to watch on you tube or below. We hope you enjoy the film. It’s been great […]
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 moreThe 2019 Greenland samples are now in preparation
We have cut open the first of the samples and begun polishing them using a Jean Wirtz TG 250 grinding and polishing machine. The increasing grit grades removes cut lines and creates a smooth finish that brings out the internal structure and lamination of the samples. Some of the samples have now also undergone drilling […]
Read moreGreenland Article published in Descent. Part 2 of 2.
The second of a two-part article written by Gina Moseley and Chris Blakeley features in the latest issue of Descent magazine (274, Jun/Jul 2020). Part 2 talks about the 2019 expedition. We’re delighted to get the front cover too! The magazine is available from https://www.wildplaces.co.uk/
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 moreGreenland Article Published in Descent. Part 1 of 2
The first of a two-part article written by Gina Moseley and Chris Blakeley features in the latest issue of Descent magazine (273, Apr/May 2020). Part 1 talks about the 2015 and 2018 expeditions. The magazine is available from https://www.wildplaces.co.uk/
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