I study climate and environmental change, primarily through the lens of paleolimnology (the study of lake sediments and past lake environments). My current work is aimed at understanding climate change in Arctic and alpine environments. Much of my research has focused on the Holocene (the last 11,000 years of Earth's history), but I study timescales ranging from the Pliocene to the present.


Some current study sites in the Arctic and subarctic.


A recent paper: November 2009 PNAS cover story comparing recent ecological changes in a Baffin Island lake with natural warm periods of the past 200,000 years.

Dr. Yarrow Axford
INSTAAR
University of Colorado
1560 30th Street
Boulder, CO 80303

email: axford at colorado dot edu