Brigham-Grette gives Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture at GSA meeting
Geosciences professor Julie Brigham-Grette gave the Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture on Nov. 5 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, N.C.Her lecture, “Driven to Extremes — The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El’Gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia,” recounted her experiences as the chief U.S. scientist with a 2009 international expedition to drill into a 3.6 million-year-old crater lake in remote northeast Russia to extract sediment samples that provided an unprecedented record of Arctic change and climate evolution.
In June, the team published its first analyses of the longest sediment core ever collected on land in the Arctic, which they said provides dramatic, “astonishing” documentation that intense warm intervals, warmer than scientists thought possible, occurred there over the past 2.8 million years.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
