Lacustrine Records of Environmental Change in Newfoundland, Canada - Collaborators include Matthew Finkenbinder among others

Little is known about the long-term Precipitation-Evaporation (P-E) balance of Newfoundland, which recently experienced a multi-drought imacting the natural resources of the region including forestry, fisheries, and water resources. Understanding the long-term history of droughts in this region will provide an improved ability to predict their timing and severity, but historic records of climate are too brief to provide such an understanding. In order to place current events in the context of the natural variation of the past, we are working to produce a multiproxy study using laminated lake sediments to investigate the complex relationships between large-scale climatic forcing, regional climatic change, and vegetation and lake response at a watershed-scale.