Studying a sea ice core (Nunataryuk project)

Description

Juliane Wolter of the Alfred Wegener Institute and George Tanski of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam describe a sea ice core during a spring 2019 expedition at Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) along the Yukon Coast in Canada.

The Nunataryuk research project aims to assess permafrost thaw along Arctic coastlines, study how it contributes to climate change, understand its impacts on indigenous communities and other people, and develop mitigation and adaptation strategies. The project brings together world-leading specialists in natural science and socio-economics and connects them with stakeholders from around the Arctic coast. Nunataryuk is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, Germany.