• Glacial history of the Åsgardfonna Ice Cap, NE Spitsbergen, since the last glaciation 

      Allaart, Lis; Schomacker, Anders; Larsen, Nicolaj K.; Nørmark, Egon; Rydningen, Tom Arne; Farnsworth, Wesley R.; Retelle, Michael J.; Brynjólfsson, Skafti; Forwick, Matthias; Kjellman, Sofia Elisabeth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-30)
      The response of glaciers and ice caps to past climate change provides important insight into how they will react to ongoing and future global warming. In Svalbard, the Holocene glacial history has been studied for many cirque and valley glaciers. However, little is known about how the larger ice caps in Svalbard responded to Late Glacial and Holocene climate changes. Here we use lake sediment cores ...
    • Holocene glacial history of Svalbard: Status, perspectives and challenges 

      Farnsworth, Wesley Randall; Allaart, Lis; Ingólfsson, Ólafur; Alexanderson, Helena; Forwick, Matthias; Noormets, Riko; Retelle, Michael J.; Schomacker, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-29)
      We synthesize the current understanding of glacier activity on Svalbard from the end of the Late Pleistocene (12,000 yrs. before present) to the end of the Little Ice Age (<i>c.</i> 1920 AD). Our glacier history is derived from the SVALHOLA database, the first compilation of Holocene geochronology for Svalbard and the surrounding waters, including over 1,800 radiocarbon, terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide ...