What is the most challenging thing about working in the Arctic region?
Accessing the field sites takes a lot of planning and a lot of time to just get there. We probably spend ten days either preparing or waiting out the weather for each day we have on task in the field. The weather is a huge factor in determining the success of our field work. We can’t work on lakes when the wind blows. What is the most important thing you’d like for people to know about your work? Lakes provide an ideal focus for multi-disciplinary research, and the Arctic/Subarctic has loads of lakes, most of which have not yet been severely altered by human activities. Understanding how to interpret past climate changes from the biological and physical properties of lake sediment is not easy, but when a team of scientists work to fit the pieces together, it can be extremely rewarding.
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