Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories

 

John Higgins, associate professor of geosciences and associated faculty in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, presented “Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories.” Higgins was the first speaker in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Higgins discussed his lab’s efforts to extend the record of Earth’s past climate using air bubbles up to 4 million years old trapped in ice cores they have collected from Antarctica’s Allan Hills. These cores could allow scientists to, for the first time, directly and precisely reconstruct Earth’s atmosphere and climate system during a period widely seen as analogous to a future shaped by human-caused climate change.

Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories

Publish Date

September 20, 2022

Presenter(s)

John Higgins

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/TzTNtMoideo

Video Length

47:18

 

John Higgins, associate professor of geosciences and associated faculty in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, presented “Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories.” Higgins was the first speaker in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Higgins discussed his lab’s efforts to extend the record of Earth’s past climate using air bubbles up to 4 million years old trapped in ice cores they have collected from Antarctica’s Allan Hills. These cores could allow scientists to, for the first time, directly and precisely reconstruct Earth’s atmosphere and climate system during a period widely seen as analogous to a future shaped by human-caused climate change.