ICE STORIES: Working to Reconstruct Past Climate
2,687 views · Published 17 December 2009 · 2:37 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: Exploratorium · 2009 · Science & Technology
A dispatch from Polar Scientist Billy D'Andrea, titled "Why Paleoclimate?" Billy is one of over 3 dozen scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctic. Follow their blogs at Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists. http://icestories.exploratorium.edu Billy D'Andrea studies the natural variability of Earths climate system using single-cell algae as an indicator of past temperatures. He is a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow working at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and develops and applies molecular and isotopic techniques to reconstruct past climate change from lake sediments. Billy loves the Arctic and worked in southwest Greenland for seven years prior to beginning research in northwest Norway this summer.
