ICEHUS II

ICEHUS is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that is financed by the Research Council of Norway for the period 2005-2010. The project studies Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Barents-Kara sea region and the earliest human occupation in northern Russia. In this project we will carry out a lake coring programme in the Russian Arctic that in our opinion may provide unique archives for reconstruction the climate and environmental evolution in the Arctic.

During 4 field expeditions to Polar Urals we have collected 470km seismic profiles, 150 m of lake cores,  84 exposure age samples and 52 OSL dating sample from the Polar Ural area (see metadata). Presently this material is being analyzed at  Department of Earth Science, UiB.

Contact: John Inge Svendsen (project leader)

Coring on lake ice in the Polar Urals, Russia Foto: Øystein Lohne