Climate, Ecosystems and Human Society as Recorded in the First Ice Core Extracted from the Tyrolean Alps

该项目将从意大利一个偏远的阿尔卑斯冰川提取冰芯，并将其保存在俄亥俄州哥伦布的伯德极地研究中心的冷冻箱中，以便将来对古环境进行研究。随着全球平均地表温度的上升，必须考虑物理系统和人类系统如何应对气候并与气候相互作用。缺乏来自偏远地点的古环境信息，如高海拔冰川，这是连接自然系统和人类系统所必需的。南蒂罗尔是欧洲阿尔卑斯山的一个独特地区，拥有非常丰富的人类历史。它最高的冰川Alto dell'Ortles（3905米）是研究气候，生态系统和人类社会过去变化的重要观测点。蒂罗尔的这一部分的特点是欧洲阿尔卑斯山中降水率最低，因此其冰川可能包含比其他阿尔卑斯山地区更古老的冰历史。山的潜力。奥特莱斯冰原尚未被探索，主要是由于后勤通道困难。山奥特尔斯距离著名的5,200年前的蒂罗尔冰人从消融的冰原中出现的地方只有30公里。这一发现表明，过去几十年是阿尔卑斯山这一地区过去5,200年来有记录以来最热的一年。事实上，冰川正在迅速萎缩，在这一领域，它是一个高度优先检索这一独特的古环境冰川档案从山。在它丢失之前。 这次打捞使命将确保获得保存信息的可能性，这些信息有可能突出上个千年期间蒂罗尔阿尔卑斯山调节气候、生态系统和人类社会的关系。冰芯有可能促进对阿尔卑斯山地区气候、植被和土地利用的过去和未来变化的了解。山脉奥特莱斯冰芯的历史将填补一个重要的空白，从欧洲阿尔卑斯山检索冰芯的空间分布。最终，他们的记录将提供一个独特的尺度，与其他欧洲记录和那些来自低纬度地区的记录进行比较，这些地区的气候，生态系统和人类社会记录已经被提取出来。

This project will extract ice-cores from a remote Alpine glacier in Italy and secure them in freezers at the Byrd Polar Research Center in Columbus, Ohio to enable future research on paleo-environments. As globally averaged surface temperatures increase it is important to consider how physical and human systems respond to and interact with climate. There is a lack of paleo-environmental information from remote sites such as high altitude glaciers that are essential to link physical and human systems. South Tyrol is a unique area in the European Alps with a very rich human history. Its highest glacier, the Alto dell'Ortles (3905 meters) constitutes an important observational point to study past changes in climate, ecosystems and human society. This part of Tyrol is characterized by the lowest precipitation rate in the European Alps and thus its glaciers are likely to contain ice histories older than those from other Alpine locations. The potential of Mt. Ortles ice field has not been explored, mainly due to the difficult logistical access. Mt. Ortles is located only about 30 km from where the famous 5,200 year old Tyrolean Ice Man emerged from an ablating ice field. This discovery suggests that the last few decades were the warmest on record over the last 5,200 years in this region of the Alps. Indeed glaciers are rapidly shrinking in this area and it is a high priority to retrieve this unique paleo-environmental glacial archive from Mt. Ortles before it is lost. This salvage mission will ensure the possibility of obtaining the preserved information with the potential to highlight relationships regulating climate, ecosystems and human society in the Tyrolean Alps during the last millennium.The ice cores have the potential to advance the understanding of past and future changes in climate, vegetation, and land use in a region of the Alps. The Mt. Ortles ice core histories will fill an important gap in the spatial distribution of ice cores retrieved from the European Alps. Ultimately their records will offer a unique yardstick to be compared with other European records and those from low-latitude sites where records of climate, ecosystems, and human societies have been extracted.