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Research Services Paleoecology Forensic Palynology Geoarchaeology Publications Contact Paleo-Forge	Paleoecology is the study of past climates and vegetation, both on land and in the ocean. Our speciality is the study of climate change in the Arctic Ocean and in the waters off Nova Scotia and British Columbia — particularly, how Global Warming has impacted the marine food chains and harmful algal blooms that cause shellfish poisoning and other potentially fatal sicknesses. We use numerical analysis of the climate change over the past ten thousand years to forecast future climate and ocean conditions. Examples of our published work in this area include: Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine geology of Nares Strait region: paleoceanography from foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts, sedimentology and stable isotopes (932K PDF) Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A., Prins, M.A., Soenarjo, D., Troelstra, S.R., Levac, E., Scott, D.B., Roncaglia, L, & Kuipers, A. Polarforschung 74 (1-3), 169-183, 2006 Decadal-scale sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic and the impact on humans during the past 4,000 years (360K PDF) Peta J. Mudie, Andre Rochon and Elisabeth Levac Environmental Archaeology 10:11-126, 2005 Arctic catastrophes: sea ice changes and impacts in the Eastern Arctic during the past 4,000 years Poster presented at the Conference on Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic, June 15-17, 2005, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Yukon (1200 x 900 pixels 464K JPG) (2400 x 1800 pixels 1 MB JPG) or (884K PPT) Mudie, P.J., Levac, E. , and Rochon, A. The palynological record of terrigenous flux to the deep sea: late Pliocene–Recent examples from 41°N in the abyssal Atlantic and Pacific oceans F. M. G. McCarthy; K. E. Gostlin; P. J. Mudie; R. O. Pedersen Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 128(1-2): 81-95, 2004 Sea-surface conditions in northernmost Baffin Bay during the Holocene: palynological evidence. Elisabeth Levac; Anne De Vernal; Weston Blake Jr. Journal of Quaternary Science 16(4): 353-363, 2001 Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the Canadian Arctic marine region (860K PDF) P. J. Mudie; André Rochon Journal of Quaternary Science 16(7): 603-620, 2001 Freshwater chlorophycean algae in recent marine sediments of the Beaufort, Laptev and Kara Seas (Arctic Ocean) as indicators of river runoff Jens Matthiessen, Martina Kunz-Pirrung and Peta J. Mudie International Journal Earth Sciences 89: 470-485, 2000 Oceanic pollen transport and pollen:dinocyst ratios as markers of late Cenozoic sea level change and sediment transport M. G. McCarthy; P. J. Mudie Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 138(1): 187-206, 1998 Glacial-marine sedimentation, Canadian polar margin, North of Axel Heiberg Island. Hein, F.J. and Mudie, P.J., Géographie physique et Quaternaire 45: 213-227, 1991 Siliceous sponge communities, biological zonation, and Recent sea-level change on the Arctic margin: Ice Island results. Van Wagoner, N.A., Mudie, P.J., Cole, F.E. and Daborn, G. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26: 2341-2355, 1989 Ice Island sampling and investigation of sediments: an Environmental Marine Geology Program in the Canadian Arctic. Mosher, D.C., Mudie, P.J. and Frobel, D. Videotape, 16 mins 19sec, 1986 Paleoclimate of Baffin Bay from 300,000-year record of foraminifera, dinoflagellates and pollen Mudie, P.J. and Aksu, A.E. Nature 312: 630-634, 1984 Palynological records of red tide-producing species in Canada: past trends and implications for the future (4.2MB PDF) Petra J. Mudie; André Rochon; Elisabeth Levac Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 180(1): 159-186, 2002
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