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
Swiss Polar Class is a free educational program available to teachers, students, and anyone interested in discovering the polar regions. It is aimed at students aged 8 to 12 and older.…
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Dr Dominik Gräff and colleagues from the GreenFjord team just published an article in the leading scientific magazine Nature. The article describes coupled iceberg calving and underwater glacier melting processes within…
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Watch this amazing put together by GreenFjord member Maxi Castrillejo from UniL. The video shows the 2024 field work of the GreenFjord Ocen cluster on board the Greenlandic research vessel Sanna.
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