Glacial history of the Åsgardfonna Ice Cap, NE Spitsbergen, since the last glaciation

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Allaart, Lis, Schomacker, Anders, Larsen, Nicolaj K., Nørmark, Egon, Rydningen, Tom Arne, Farnsworth, Wesley Randall, Retelle, Michael, Brynjólfsson, Skafti, Forwick, Matthias, Kjellman, Sofia E.
• Other Authors: Science Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Jöklarannsóknir; Loftslagsrannsóknir; Deglaciation; Glacier; Holocene history; Holocene thermal maximum; Neoglacial; Sediments; Sub-bottom data; Svalbard; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Archeology (arts and humanities); Archeology; Geology; Arctic; Norway; Andreas; Andresen; Arve; Climate change; glacier; Global warming; Ice cap; UNIS; Spitsbergen; Troms
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2705; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106717

Funding Information: Arve Johnsen (Office of the Governor of Svalbard) is thanked for providing access to the cabin in Vassfarbukta during fieldwork in 2018. The participants at the annual beach-clean-up of Svalbard are thanked for placing a fuel and wood depot at the field site. Truls Holm and Steinar Iversen (UiT) are thanked for help with preparation of geophysical equipment in Troms?. Dag Furberg Fjeld and Audun Tholfsen (UNIS logistics) are thanked for help during field preparation and safety checks during fieldwork. Drytech is acknowledged for field lunch supply. Andreas Grumstad is acknowledged for field assistance. We acknowledge ?rhus SeisLab (Katrine Juul Andresen and Ole R?n? Clausen) for help with import and interpretation of the geophysical data. Ole Bennike helped with identification of macrofossils. We kindly acknowledge two anonymous reviewers and editor Colm O'Cofaigh for improving the manuscript. Grant no. 17/01132-3 to Lis Allaart from the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund covered the main part of fieldwork and laboratory analyses. The field costs for the 2018 campaign were partly funded by Arctic Field grant no. 282643 awarded to Lis Allaart by Svalbard Science Forum/Research Council of Norway, and grant no. 16/35 to Wesley Farnsworth from Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund. Funding Information: Grant no. 17/01132-3 to Lis Allaart from the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund covered the main part of fieldwork and laboratory analyses. The field costs for the 2018 campaign were partly funded by Arctic Field grant no. 282643 awarded to Lis Allaart by Svalbard Science Forum/ Research Council of Norway , and grant no. 16/35 to Wesley Farnsworth from Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) The response of glaciers and ice caps to past climate change provides important insight into how they will react to ongoing and future global warming. In Svalbard, the Holocene glacial history has been studied for many cirque and valley glaciers. However, ...