University of Copenhagen ice-core expert Dorthe Dahl-Jensen will speak on ancient Greenland and climate change on Friday, Oct. 12, at the University of Colorado at Boulder as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by CU-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in the CIRES Auditorium in the Ekeley Science Building. Paid parking is available in the Euclid AutoPark just east of the University Memorial Center. For directions go to: cires.colorado.edu/about/contact/directions.html.
Dahl-Jensen led research efforts to drill and analyze a nearly two-mile long ice core extracted from the Greenland ice sheet, which was drilled over eight years as part of the North Greenland Ice Core Project, or NGRIP.
Chemical signatures within the ice core suggest there was still a significant ice sheet covering Greenland roughly 125,000 years ago during the Eemian period. NGRIP involved participants from Denmark, Germany, Japan, the United States, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Belgium and Iceland. _
Additional information on the event is available on the CIRES Web site at: cires.colorado.edu/events. CIRES is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.