A short film from our 2023 summer field season to Baffin Bay is premiering this week at EGU and can now be watched at EGU. In addition to shots at sea, our video also includes footage from LDEO archives. Check it out and enjoy!
The award-winning short documentary The Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment screens at GeoCinema, a showcase of films that explore geoscience during the annual EGU General Assembly (EGU24), being held April 14-19 in Vienna, Austria. The General Assembly is Europe’s largest geosciences event, attended annually by over 16,000 scientists from around the world. The short film has been presented at numerous international film festivals this spring, recently receiving the Climate Action award from the Arctic Film Festival in Svalbard, Norway.
Over the course of a month at sea aboard the Research Vessel Neil Armstrong, an international team of scientists attempt to gain insights into the Earth’s last deglaciation period. Around 15,000 years ago, the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet destabilized and retreated at an accelerated rate, but the reasons for this rapid deglaciation remain unclear. The Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment (BADEX) seeks a greater understanding of this paleoclimate event, in the hopes of gaining deeper insights into climate change today.
The Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment is a co-production with the BADEX Collaborative, Substream Films, and Lunar Kitchen Films. The BADEX Collaborative is led by chief scientist Dr. Rob Hatfield, and principal investigators Drs. Shannon Klotsko and Brendan Reilly. The project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the 2023 European Geosciences Union Journalism Fellowship.