Accelerated climate change impacts southern Greenland fjord ecosystems and livelihoods profoundly on land and in the ocean. Fjords are particularly vulnerable because they lie at the nexus between the cryosphere, ocean, land, atmosphere and biosphere.
Within GreenFjord, we will explore the socio-cultural and environmental interactions by focusing our research on two different fjord systems: a marine and a terrestrial terminating glacier. Our efforts are organized around six clusters: cryosphere, land, ocean, atmosphere, biodiversity and human.
Accelerated climate change impacts southern Greenland fjord ecosystems and livelihoods profoundly as a result of atmospheric warming, changing vegetation and precipitation patterns, as well as enhanced glacier melt. Increased meltwater fluxes also affect marine ecosystem functioning and nutrient circulation, which in turn affect the marine food-web with cascading effects on biodiversity.
About Green Fjord
A new article on the EPFL website describes the work of Prof Julia Schmale and Prof Jérôme Chappellaz within the framework of the GreenFjord programme. Read more here: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/from-clouds-to-fjords-the-arctic-bears-witness-t-2/ © GreenFjord,…
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The 2024 field campaign focuses on ocean-ice-air interactions and biodiversity in the Nordre Sermilik Fjord on the southwest coast of Greenland. Six GreenFjord researchers are sailing aboard RV Forel, a sailing…
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The GreenFjord project has been featured by the newspaper Le Temps in an interactive online dossier: https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2023/groenland/#
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