Using Arctic driftwood at the interface of marine and terrestrial (paleo-)environmental research
Lena Hellmann, Ólafur Eggertsson, Ulf Büntgen · Past Global Change Magazine · 2016
this workshop, on the use of Arctic driftwood as an interdisciplinary paleoenvironmental proxy, was held at the Icelandic Forest Research Institute Mógilsá, northwest of Reykjavik.twentyone participants from 10 European and North American countries brought expertise in dendro-sciences, paleoclimatology and paleoecology, as well as archeology, history, oceanography and radiocarbon dating.the aim of the meeting was to build up a driftwood research network, by (1) the organization and coordination of future fieldwork, (2) the joining of forces towards a cross-disciplinary review paper, and (3) the collection of ideas for fundraising and proposal writing to facilitate international collaboration.