1,350,000 sek funding for a 1 year project on The Past Climates of Jersey

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1,350,000 sek funding for a 1 year project on The Past Climates of Jersey

Associate Professor Thomas Stevens has been awarded £102,0226 (c. 1,350,000 sek) funding for a 1 year project on ‘The Past Climates of Jersey’. Funded by two charities on Jersey; Jersey Heritage and the Jersey Community Foundation.

- The work is about understanding how climate and sea level has changed on Jersey over the last half million years, and increasing public understanding of this in the Channel Islands, says Thomas Stevens. 

The Channel Island of Jersey lies in a region that experienced dramatic and rapid climate changes during the Quaternary Ice Age. The island also has an exceptionally well-preserved and diverse set of past climate and sea level archives that record this change. This project uses these archives to understand how the landscape and sea level of Jersey responded to these varying climate states over the last half million years, and what the wider causes and impacts of these abrupt events were.