Current Projects
- Do Holocene variations in Arctic sea ice and Greenland icebergs drifting through Denmark Strait reflect natural cycles?
- Study of Initiation of Greenland Glacial Ice
COMING SOON: Source Regions and Core Data
Previous Projects
APEX (Arctic Paleoclimates in their Extremes) 2011
Photos from the Longyearbyen, Svalbard APEX meeting: APEX Meeting 2011
LOMonosov Ridge Off Greenland (LOMROG) Expedition 2007
Dr. Dennis Darby collecting dirty sea ice samples.
Read log book entries: LOMROG 2007 Log Book
Due to his experience and expertise in matters of the Arctic, Dr. Darby was invited to participate in this scientific expedition to map the seafloor in the region north of Greenland. This sea floor mapping will hopefully show areas of grounded ice from past ice ages and other features leading to a better understanding of geologic processes in the Arctic. Sediment cores will be collected from several sites to help better understand past climate changes in this area and to show ice drift patterns off Greenland in the past. Dr. Darby will also be in charge of collecting dirty sea ice samples from the drifting pack ice. These samples can be analyzed for small grains that, like a fingerprint, can be traced back to their source and thus determine where the ice originated. Related to the scientific goals of this expedition is the hotly contested matter of mapping the Arctic for future drilling rights among Russia, Canada, Denmark and the United States. (Archived ODU article, August 2007).
Healy-Oden Trans Arctic Expedition 2005 (HOTRAX’05)
Dr. Dennis Darby collecting dirty sea ice samples (Photo: Martin Jakobsson).
Cruise Report from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat: HOTRAX 2005 Cruise Report
Graduate students Paula Zimmerman and John Rand at the North Pole with Dr. Darby, Sept. 12, 2005 during the Healy-Oden Trans-Arctic Expedition
(HOTRAX).
Arctic Paleoclimate Lab 