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SUMMARY:Ice cores and interglacials - Professor Eric Wolff FRS\, Departmen
 t of Earth Sciences\, University of Cambridge
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 Jw2shuVfAY9.\n\n*Abstract:*\n\nThe polar ice sheets hold one of Earth’s 
 great sedimentary records.  By drilling ice cores from Greenland and Antar
 ctica\, we can obtain information about climate and numerous other environ
 mental parameters over 800\,000 years in Antarctica and over 120\,000 year
 s in Greenland. In this talk\, I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses
  of ice cores\, demonstrate how ice cores are collected and present some h
 ighlights of recent ice core research\, concentrating on the periods in th
 e record that are as warm or warmer than the present. Then\, I will explai
 n how we are working to discover what happened to the Antarctic and Greenl
 and ice sheet at a time when sea level appears to have been elevated. Fina
 lly\, I will discuss the interglacial we are currently in and its extended
  future in the light of anthropogenic climate change.\n\n*Speaker profile:
 *\n\nEric Wolff is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of
  Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. His main research goal is to unde
 rstand the causes of climate evolution over recent glacial cycles. After g
 raduating as a chemist\, he has studied ice cores from the Antarctic and G
 reenland for the past 30 years\, using them to understand changing climate
 \, as well as changing levels of pollution in remote areas.  He also carri
 es out research into the chemistry of the lower parts of the Antarctic atm
 osphere.  Until June 2013\, he led a programme at the British Antarctic Su
 rvey\, where he is an Honorary Fellow. He chaired the science committee of
  the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) and the Royal S
 ociety's Global Environmental Research Committee until 2018\, and led the 
 Royal Society team in a joint initiative with the National Academy of Scie
 nces on explaining climate science “Climate change: evidence and causes
 ” in 2013. 
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