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 it affected 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

Nicolaj Krog Larsen
University of Aarhus