Proceedings of the IODP-Canada Summer School on 'Ocean and Climate Changes in Polar and Subpolar Environments' published
The proceedings of the IODP-Canada Summer School on 'Ocean and Climate Changes in Polar and Subpolar Environments' have just been published as Volume 14 of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.
The 11 papers in the proceedings are permanently free to read at:
http://www.myecos.co.uk/DC/ctr.aspx?6C6164=31313238333638&736272=$$EOes/VDRm/twEEE&747970=7478&66=30
OVERVIEW
The volume begins with a view on the great challenges and key issues to be addressed in the Arctic Ocean (Stein) in the forthcoming years and is followed by a review (O'Regan) on Late Cenozoic paleoceanography of the Central Arctic. The two subsequent papers (St-Onge et al and de Vernal et al) deal with the oceanographic, paleoceanographic and geological context of the Saguenay Fjord, and St Lawrence Estuary and Gulf. The subsequent set of papers review the use of planktonic foraminifers (Eynaud), diatoms (Crosta) and dinocysts (de Vernal and Rochon) in polar or sub-polar environments. These articles are followed by a paper on transfer functions (Guiot) summarizing the different approaches used to reconstruct past environmental conditions from micropaleontological proxy data. Two papers on geochemical and isotopic proxies are then presented and related to either foraminifera isotopic records (Hillaire-Marcel) in high northern latitudes or changes in ocean circulation and weathering inputs derived from radiogenic isotopes (Frank). The volume concludes with a paper on the application of visible/near infrared derivative spectroscopy to Arctic sediments (Ortiz).
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