GeoGenetics > Field diaries 2010

Field work 2010

• Tina Brand logging ice cores at NEEM

  July - August 2010

  Among snow storms and visiting VIPs the NEEM team hits rock bottom.

• Among our earliest European predessecors

  July 2010

  Eske Willerslev and Cristina Valdiosera visits a cave in southern Spain, which contains human bones more than 1,3 million years old.

• Tracey Pierre sampling North American museums in search for clues to the early peopling of the Americas

  June - July 2010

  Along the way she pays respect to the people of the First Nations.

• Astrid Schmidt on the lookout for ancient DNA in the NEEM ice-core.

  June 2010

  Ancient DNA may tell something about plants and insects here in NW-Greenland long before the ice cap covered the area.