Lake El'gygytgyn Drilling Project
Description
The polar regions are known to play a major role in the global climate system influencing both oceanic and atmospheric circulation through strong feedback interactions involving ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and terrestrial processes. One approach towards the understanding of ice-land-ocean interactions to evaluate the Arctic climate system, as well as linkages between the Arctic and the global climate, is to compare glacial, terrestrial, and marine archives over several glacial/interglacial cycles when Milankovitch-forcings and northern hemisphere boundary conditions were not always same....
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Location
Asia, Russia, Siberia, Chukotka, Lake El'gygytgyn
Coordinates
67° 30' N, 172° 5' E (Please scroll down to end of page for more information.)
Project Start and End
- Permafrost Drilling: End of October - Begin of December 2008
- Lake Drilling: January - May 2009
Programs and Funding
- Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
- ICDP Germany - German Science Foundation
- International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- U.S. National Science Foundation
Principal Investigators
- Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences
- Martin Melles, University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Quaternary Geology
- Pavel Sergeevich Minyuk, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), North-East Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute
- Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Center for Earth Sciences, Department of Lithospheric Research
Partners and Contractors
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
- Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
- DOSECC, Inc.
- EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
- Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), North-East Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Computing Center
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling, (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
- University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC)
- University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Quaternary Geology
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences
- University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics, National Lacustrine Core Repository
- University of Vienna, Center of Earth Sciences
Keywords
Arctic, Climate Change, El'gygytgyn, ELGYGYTGYN, Global Environment, ICDP-2005/01, Impact Crater, Lake Drilling, Paleoclimatology, Russia, Siberia
Current State
Presite surveys done, workshops done, expedition and field work done, core logging and sampling ongoing
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ECORD/ICDP MagellanPlus Call for Proposals Lake Ohrid Drilling Recovered Continuous Record Lake El’gygytgyn Second Overview Paper Scientific Drilling Issue 15 Online 2013 International Van Earthquake Symposium NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism New SAG Composition for 2013 The Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project Scientific Drilling Issue 14 Online Imaging the Past to Imagine our Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lake Ohrid:
The nightshift hit into shallow water facies and gravel at around 82 m sediment depth. Due to a technical... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NSF Workshop: Drilling Active Tectonics and Magmatism NSF Workshop: Drilling into High-Enthalpy Geothermal Systems 2013 International Van Earthquake Symposium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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