Long-range pollution and historic climate and element trends in an 1100-year lake sediment record from the remote lake Sarsvatnet, Svalbard

• Main Author: Vognild, Karoline Kristin
• Other Authors: Rohrlack, Thomas, Riise, Gunnhild, Mikkelsen, Øyvind
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2022
• Subjects: Long-range pollution; Climate proxies; Sediment record; Sarsvatnet; Arctic; Svalbard; Norway; Guano; Remote Lake; Arktis; Arktis*; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3038376

Although remote, the Arctic is influenced by long-range pollution from lower latitudes. Lake sediments are sensitive to minor environmental changes, and thus accumulated heavy metals and organic substitutes can represent the concentration trends through time and as a climate proxy. To assess the ext...