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Dr. Brugger holding a slide with pollen grains visible.

Ancient Pollen Trapped in Greenland Ice Uncovers Changes in Canadian Forests Over 800 Years

By Elyse DeFranco | Feb 8, 2024 | News releases, Research findings

The new study helps illuminate how changes in forest composition followed European settlement and natural changes in climate.

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ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti

1,000 years of glacial ice reveal ‘prosperity and peril’ in Europe

By DRI Communications | Nov 4, 2021 | News releases, Research findings

Sandra Brugger, a paleoecologist at the Desert Research Institute, found in her recent study that Europe’s past prosperity and failure, driven by climate changes, has been revealed using thousand-year-old pollen, spores and charcoal particles fossilized in glacial ice.

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New DRI projects for 2021 include microplastics, microfossils, snowmelt risk, and solute transport

By DRI Communications | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, Featured projects

New DRI projects for 2021 include microplastics, microfossils, snowmelt risk, and solute transportFEB 26, 2021RENO & LAS VEGAS, NEV.Introducing the winners of DRI's 2021 Institute Project Assignment (IPA) competition.Each year, the Desert Research Institute...

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DRI scientist Sandra Brugger

Meet Sandra Brugger, Ph.D.

By DRI Communications | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog, Featured researchers

Sandra Brugger, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Researcher with DRI's Division of Hydrologic Sciences, and a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Fellow. DRI: What brought you to DRI? Brugger: I started at DRI in October 2019 with an Early Postdoc Mobility grant...

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