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The continued rise in CO2 is unacceptable. This insanity cannot continue

Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren’t cut quickly

Julie Brigham-Grette is an internationally-renowned expert on the Arctic’s climate history and sea-level rise. She is a frequent contributor to media reports including in Science magazine, PBS, NPR and the CBC.

Since 1991, she has participated in nearly a dozen field expeditions to remote regions of Arctic Russia and was co-chief scientist in 2002 of an expedition on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, taking sediment cores from the Bering and Chukchi Seas. She also works closely with Indigenous communities in the Arctic.

Polar climate

Arctic Science

Sedimentology

Glaciology

Geological Mapping

Arctic

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The planet passed a dangerous threshold for warming last year. Why is nobody talking about it?

climate change

Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points

New NSF rule requires tribal approval for research affecting their interests

The Climate Question Podcast: Why is climate change fuelling tension in the Arctic?

2 degrees, 40 feet: Scientists who study Earth’s ice say we could be committed to disastrous sea level rise

sea level rise

Polar researchers strive for progress despite adverse world events

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What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were so crazily high

arctic research

Russia’s war in Ukraine forces Arctic climate projects to pivot

‘Never Supposed to Happen’: North and South Poles See Unprecedented Heat

Juli Brigham-Grette

NOVA: Polar Extremes

Julie Brigham-Grette in the Arctic with UMass flag

Julie Brigham-Grette in the Arctic

Professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

During a workshop in Stockholm on the topic of melting glaciers and sea-level rise I interviewed professor Brigham-Grette about what we can learn from pre-historic climate dynamics and events.

Professor Julie Brigham-Grette on how to learn from history

Back to the Pliocene with Dr. Julie Brigham Grette

Title of the Lecture: The Pliocene-Quaternary Evolution of the Arctic: the messy transition from Forest to Tundra, and now our return to the Pliocene.

Plenary Lecture Julie Brigham Grette

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