ARCTIC

PROJECTS

Our members are engaged in various projects, on-going and finished in the Arctic region. A full list of projects are available below.

This page is currently in-progress and will be continually updated with new projects.

Sedimentary Records of the Evolution of the Melville Bugt Ice Stream

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Palaeoglaciology

Palaeoclimatology

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Greenland; Palaeoglaciology; Ice Streams

The recession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in central Northwest Territories during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

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Terrestrial

Glacial Geology

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Ice Sheet; Quaternary Geochronology; Climate Change

The spatiotemporal drainage system evolution of Breiðamerkurjökull and associated foreland

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Glacial geomorphology; glacial hydrology

Glacial geophysics; remote sensing

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glacial hydrology; glacial geomorphology; glacial drainage systems; meltwater; temperate glacier; ground penetrating radar; UAV

The role of oceanographic processes and sedimentological settings on the deposition of microplastics in marine sediment: Icelandic waters

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Marine Pollution

Marine Geology, Oceanography

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Microplastic; Shelf; Sediment; Raman spectroscopy; Microfiber

Constraining the Impact of Arctic Amplification in the Nordic Sea: A biogeochemical approach (CIAAN)

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Climate Change, Oceanography

Palaeoceanography, Marine Geochemistry

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Essential Climate Variables (ECVs); North Atlantic Deepwater formation; Atlantification of Nordic Seas

INTAROS

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Arctic Observing

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Arctic; Observation System

Blue-Action

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Marine

Climate, Atmosphere

Keywords:

Arctic; Climate System

CLIMADAPT: Adaptation to past and present Climate Change in Arctic-Alpine Plants

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Plant Phylogeography

Plant Ecophysiology; Plant-Soil Microbial Interactions

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Climate Change; Arctic; Alphine; Adaptation; Vegetation

The Irish Impact? Charting the course for the development of Arctic and Northern Studies in Ireland

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Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Science, Library and Information Studies

History, archaeology, cultural and anthropological studies, Irish Foreign Policy and political science

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Irish Foreign Policy, Library and Information Systems, History, Arctic and Northern Heritage

Arctic Mysteries: Searching for the John Franklin Expedition in Nineteenth-Century Culture

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History of Exploration

Popular Culture

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Northwest Passage; John Franklin; Arctic exploration; popular culture

SeabirdWatch

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Biodiversity, monitoring, seabirds, Citizen Science

Phenology, Climate Change

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kittiwake; seabird; monitoring; citizen science

Cú Lir: A low cost, low carbon RV for Arctic research

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Design, construction and operation of small low carbon research vessels for marine science

Climate change, Arctic coastal and subsea permafrost, subsea clathrate deposits, high latitude coastal geomorphology and geology, training of young researchers

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Research vessel, low carbon, marine geology, oceanography, Arctic climate change