Mountain research
is a field of research that focuses on mountain environments. The projects presented here concern the study of the traces of former mountain glaciers and their association with the climate of the past and the respective climate change mechanisms.
But why do we study the traces of former glaciers? As mountain glaciers change volume in response to climatic changes, their former extents record past changes in climate, providing data on how patterns of ice distribution have varied spatially with time.
Mapping and dating of past ice margins, documented by terrestrial glaciogenic sediments and landforms, provide valuable information for landscape evolution and climate change mechanisms. By understanding major climate changes of the past, science aspires to gain a better understanding of the ongoing climate change and its implication to ecosystems.
An important aspect of conducting mountain research is the inclusion of the public in doing science and the development of knowledge. Citizen geoscience has been recognized to increase the participants’ understanding of scientific processes and the environment. It creates feelings of recognition and appreciation for contribution to science, and potentially raises awareness and sensitivity to geoheritage and geoconservation and other socio-environmental issues.
Which was the glacial extent and timing of the Last Ice Age in the Pindus mountains? How did the climate respond to the cold events of the Lateglacial (transition to Holocene) such as the Younger Dryas and how did this affect the Ice Age human populations?
MOUNTAIN RECORD NARRATIVES: What do glaciers tell us about the Ice Age climate and prehistory of the North Pindus mountains, NW Greece.
The Glacial history of Mt Parnassus, Central Greece
A project dedicated to the mapping and dating of glacial landforms on the massif of Mt Parnassus and the temporal and spatial reconstruction of the associated paleoglaciers over the last 400,000 years. Is this the missing link between northern and southern Greece?
Traces of glaciation (?) in the White Mountains of Crete
Is there evidence of former glaciation in these barren rocky mountains? What are the implications on our understanding of paleoclimate if glaciers did form in this southernmost corner of the Mediterranean and which was their timing within the vast geological timescale?
Research, travelling & observations in the mountains of the world
Mountain research is a never-ending project: participation in geological and geomorphological scientific projects, travelling and hiking in the mountains of the world, making observations of the geological processes…
Perennial snow fields in southern Iceland
Shrinking glaciers in the Italian Alps, Adamello National Park
Geomorphological measurements
Collecting rock samples
Fieldwork in the Maritime Alps, Italy
Fieldwork on Mt Parnassos, Greece
Rock samples for 36Cl dating of glacial deposits