Scientists Study Arctic Climate Changes

A Reno scientist is among a team of researchers who will spend the next several weeks studying the icy Arctic Ocean to document historic climate changes.

Glenn Berger, a research professor at the Desert Research Institute, and others set off Friday aboard the Healy, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker.

“There are more climate changes happening up there than anywhere else in the world,” Berger said of the Arctic. “Models predict drastic changes up there by the middle of this century.”

Berger said his role in the project will be to help determine the history of climate changes in the Arctic thousands of years ago by taking sediment cores from the bottom of the ocean.

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