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.
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GreenFjord featured on the front page of EPFL’s news in a recent article describing the latest field season in SW Greenland. Read more here: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-summer-of-intense-field-work-for-the-greenfjor-2/ © GreenFjord, all rights reserved
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As the fieldwork season is coming to a close, the GreenFjord team curated footage into an immersive video that summarises their impressions from the voyage on the Adolf Jensen to the…
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GreenFjord researchers are interested in better understanding the consequences of glacier melt on the circulation and biogeochemistry of SW Greenland fjords. On board the research vessel Sanna (Greenland Institute of Natural…
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