BA Thesis: A Multi-Proxy Climate Reconstruction on Lake Sediment from the Uinta Mountains, Utah
OVERVIEW
Reader Lake and Elbow Lake, two high altitude lakes in the Uinta Mountains of Utah, are located about 2 km apart in the same drainage basin. Despite their proximity, however, climate reconstructions from sediment cores suggest that the lakes have responded to post-glacial climate changes in surprisingly different ways. Using multiple organic and inorganic climate proxies, the goal of this study was to determine why the two lakes behaved so differently over time, to infer information about the post-glacial climate of the Uinta Mountains, and to study if and how lake basin geomorphology impacts a lake's response to climate.
The pack train, loaded down with coring gear, heads into the backcountry (July 2006).
Coring Upper Lilly Lake in the Uinta Mountains, as seen over the backs of two members of the pack horse team (July 2006).
Sunrise over Flaming Gorge Reservoir, eastern Uinta Mountains (July 2006).
The field team celebrates after ascending a long uphill in brutal heat in the Ruby Mountains, northeastern Nevada (July 2006).
PUBLICATIONS
Corbett, L.B. and Munroe, J.S. 2010. Investigating the influence of hydrogeomorphic setting on the response of lake sedimentation to climatic changes in the Uinta Mountains, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology 44 (1): 311-325.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Munroe, J.S., Corbett, L.B., Duran, L.T., Fisher, B.G., Peters, A.K., and Laabs, B.J. 2009. Grain-size data from lacustrine sedimentary records provide constraints on the timing of alpine loess deposition in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah. Northeastern Geological Society of America Meeting, Portland, ME. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 41(3): 6.
Corbett, L.B. and Munroe, J.S. 2008. A multi-proxy investigation of lake sediments from the Uinta Mountains, Utah. Northeastern Geological Society of America Meeting, Buffalo, NY. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(2): 57.