Two UC profs study climate change in Alaska
University of Cincinnati professors Wendy Eisner and Ken Hinkel have spent more than a decade studying the climate on Alaska’a North Slope, and have just received a grant that will allow them to continue their work for three more years.
University of Cincinnati professors Wendy Eisner and Ken Hinkel have spent more than a decade studying the climate on Alaska’a North Slope.
The married couple, who both hold degrees in geography, operate largely out of Barrow because, as Hinkel tells the News Record, “the high polar regions feel the effects of climate change first”.
Recently, the National Science Foundation awarded the team a grant to continue their work for the next three years.
Eisner and Hinkel plan to focus on the region’s lakes and lake basins, studying ice cores for climate data in much the same way as a dendrochronologist studies tree rings.
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