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After high school, UMass Amherst alumnus Jeffrey Salacup ’06, ‘08MS enlisted in the Air Force in order to finance his college education. He didn't know that his time in the military would set him on a path toward becoming a scientist. Now, manager of the Stable Isotope and Biogeochemistry Laboratories in the Morrill Science Center and faculty member in the geosciences department, Salacup works with students to study climate change in ecosystems of the past in order to better understand ...

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures,...

For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenlan...

A breakthrough study has shown that a prolonged drought, not the Little Ice Age, drove the Greenland Vikings to abandon their 400-450-year-old settlements.

A new study led by UMass Amherst suggests that increasing aridity, not temperature change, contributed to the Norse abandonment of Greenland settlements in the 15th century.

Researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst have analysed sediment samples taken from a Greenland lake adjacent to a former Norse farm.