Our oceans underwent major changes when the planet transitioned from the Last Glacial Maximum to our current interglacial (or “between glaciations”) period. So what was going on in the ocean during this transformation? Julia DohnerJulia is a PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Her focus is on biogeochemistry, which, as […]
Formed from the meltwater of a colossal ice sheet that once blanketed North America, glacial Lake Agassiz experienced a sudden drop in water level approximately 12,900 years ago. The timing of this event aligns with a climatic return to cold conditions for 1,000 years, known as the Younger Dryas. A well-established hypothesis suggests that catastrophic […]