Arctic drilling

 

“This is not what we expected” said Julie Brigham-Grette in video describing work at Lake El’gygytgyn.

Posted 10 July 2012 by Liz O'Connell

Fairbanks, Alaska, July 10, 2012—- “To this point no one has much of any terrestrial record anywhere in the Arctic older than 125,000 years ago,” said Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst as she describes findings from the Lake El’gygytgyn (or Lake E) project to Office of Polar Programs Board Meeting at the National Science Foundation. Brigham-Grette along with Martin Melles, University of Cologne Germany and Pavel Minyuk, North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute in Magadan, Russia, undertook the core drilling... Read more