An international team of scientists led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received $3.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund an expedition to the polar lake El’gygytgyn in Siberia, which should yield data that will provide the most detailed record of past Arctic climate to date. The research will occur during the fourth International Polar Year (2007-2008) which aims to provide a better understanding of the world’s polar regions through a flurry of international coordination and cooperation by scientists and governments. Sediment cores that the scientists took in 2003 have already provided the oldest continuous terrestrial record of the Arctic. One core dated to 300.000 years ago.

$3.2 Million Grant Will Fund Polar Expedition To Siberian Lake, Led by UMass Amherst Scientist