This was the second field season for the research project Response of the Inland ice-sheet to natural climate changes (RINK).
The RINK project investigated how the ice margin reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship between sea-ice and sea-level changes and not at least how its effected human adaptation and migration. Even though the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet contains the largest mass it is local climatic and topographical conditions that control the discharge of ice – and therefore the intensity of response to climatic change.
Principal investigators
Kurt H. Kjær
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicolaj Krog Larsen
Lund University