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Eleven teams of University of Vermont students recently participated in the 2021 Annual UVM Business Pitch Competition and put their business ideas on display. The competition moved to a virtual format this year allowing students from near and far to compete for over $3,000 in prizes.
Teams from four schools across campus were represented including Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences / Community Development & Applied Economics Department, Grossman School of Business (GSB), and the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences / Mechanical Engineering Department. The business ideas ranged from an innovative rooftop multiple purpose co-working space, to a sustainable consignment clothing shop, a repurposed music venture, and an equal opportunity online employment platform for people with disabilities, to name a few.
Fossilized plants found under miles-deep ice may hint at previous periods of climate change
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Fossilized plants found under miles-deep ice in Greenland may have shed light on modern-day climate change. (photo by Mykyta Martynenko via Unsplash)
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Perfectly fossilized plants found miles beneath ice in northwestern Greenland may shed some light on the history of the Earth’s climate.
A recent study reveals that the plants which were first unearthed by U.S. Army scientists in the 1960s and only recently re-observed may indicate that the planet has previously undergone periods of warming climates.
Published on Science Direct, the study describes how University of Vermont scientist, Andrew Christ, was shocked to see plants and sediment in the frozen dirt that the U.S. Army scientists had sampled.
Greenland Ice Sheet is More Sensitive to Climate Change than Previously Understood
Written by AZoCleantechMar 16 2021
In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017.
In 2019, University of Vermont scientist Andrew Christ looked at it through his microscope and couldn t believe what he was seeing: twigs and leaves instead of just sand and rock. That suggested that the ice was gone in the recent geologic past and that a vegetated landscape, perhaps a boreal forest, stood where a mile-deep ice sheet as big as Alaska stands today.