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
The first annual assembly of GreenFjord has taken place on 28 and 29 November 2022 in Sion. In-person and online, first results of the six research cluster’s activities during the 2022…
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Great interview with the PI of GreenFjord, Julia Schmale, and the co-PI of the second SPI Flagship Initiative PAMIR, Francesca Pellicciotti, on Swissinfo.ch: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/let-s-talk–polar-research-and-our-struggling-planet/48004934
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Getting to Greenland is not always easy. After not being able to land at Narsarsuaq at the first attempt, members of the biodiversity, land, human and atmosphere clusters had to return…
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