Caving on climate
How Can Caves Teach Us About Climate? | News
These underground chambers contain the secrets of Earth's climate in what you may know as stalactites, stalagmites, and other formations.
Cave Climates - National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Cave climate refers to the typical temperature, humidity, airflow, and other atmospheric conditions inside a cave.
Learning from Earth's past: Climate science in caves and tar pits with ...
Climate records in caves. Mineral deposits in caves, like stalagmites and stalactites, can reveal a history of changes in the local environment ...
Into the unknown: Exploring caves to uncover climate change records
the geologists discovered caves with interesting geological features — crystalline calcite, stalagmites and flowstone deposits. To Moseley, that ...
Crystallized Climate - UC Davis College of Letters and Science
By cracking open stalagmites from these caves, Montañez and her students have teased out a timeline of Northern California's climate history ...
Caving for Climate - University of Alabama News
Introduction ... A 10,000-year-old weather report? Come on. That's going a tad deep into the archives, isn't it? Yet, that's the untold story that ...
The geological importance of caves to time climate change
Paleoclimate data gathered predates human records and emissions from fossil fuel use, so techniques such as mass spectrometry fill in the ...
Weather underground: What caves can reveal about climate change ...
It's not great news for lifeforms that live in caves, as apparently their worlds are not immune to the effects of climate change. The ...
Picture Climate: What Can We Learn From Caves?
Because the amount of water making its way into the caves determines the amount speleothems grow, their layers can indicate times of both heavy ...
Climate warming detected in caves of the European Alps - Nature
Cave air temperatures in four caves in the European Alps show statistically significant warming trends of about 0.2 °C per decade over the ...
Caves in Climate Studies | GUE
Well, marine sediments, to put it more politely. In most locations, tiny carbonate and silica shells constantly accumulate in an ever-thicker pile of sediments ...
What Arctic Caves Can Tell Us About Our Climate Future - WIRED
Gina Moseley is delving into remote caves in search of traces of earth's atmosphere—in the hope to better understand the changes to come.
How a hidden cave can help scientists understand the climate
Scientists are analyzing stalactites and stalagmites to gain insight into the climate of the past and the future.
The Climate Change Secrets of Stalagmites - UNLV Geoscience
Caves in particular allow researchers to extend climate records much further back in time than tree rings do. Tree rings are excellent because they provide ...
Cave Impacts - Wind Cave National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
The most dramatic effect of climate change was a rock fall at the walk-in entrance caused by freezing and thawing. To help control these changes ...
Wisconsin cave holds tantalizing clues to ancient climate changes ...
A newly published study of a stalagmite found in Cave of the Mounds reveals previously undetected history of the local climate going back ...
How Arctic Caves Are Exposing The Secrets of Our Climate - YouTube
Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate Gina Moseley is delving into remote caves in search of traces of earth's atmosphere — in the hope to ...
A VU Inside: Professor explores caves for clues to climate change
VIDEO» For Vanderbilt Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Jessica Oster, getting data means getting dirty.
Developing a Cave Conservation Management Toolbox by ...
However, it is unclear how surface climate change will affect cave climates and the species that rely on them, because caves are remote environments that have ...
The Scientist Hunting for Cave Crystals to Understand Climate ...
Scientists estimate permafrost contains twice the amount of carbon that's currently in the atmosphere. As climate change rapidly thaws the ...