PAST Gateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways): Introduction and overview

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: O'Cofaigh, Colm, Briner, Jason, Kirchner, Nina, Lucchi, R. G., Meyer, Hanno, Kaufman, Darrell S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Climate change; Fennoscandian; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41417/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41417/1/OCofaigh_2016_QSR.pdf; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116302347; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48354; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48354.d001

This special issue relates to the Second International Conference of the PAST Gateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways) network which was held in Trieste, Italy in 2014. Twenty five papers are included and they address topics under four main themes: (1) The growth and decay of Arctic ice sheets; (2) Arctic sea ice and palaeoceanography; (3) Terrestrial Arctic environments and permafrost change; and (4) Holocene Arctic environmental change. Geographically the focus is circum-Arctic; the special issue includes detailed regional studies from Greenland, Scandinavia, Russia, and Arctic North America and the adjoining seas, as well as a series of synthesis-type, review papers on Fennoscandian Ice Sheet deglaciation and Holocene Arctic palaeo-climate change. The methodologies employed are diverse and include marine sediment core and geophysical investigations, terrestrial glacial geology and geomorphology, isotopic analysis of ground ice, palaeo-ecological analysis of lacustrine and terrestrial sedimentary archives, geochronology and numerical ice sheet modeling.