Lagos Project (Proyecto Lagos-Comahue)

The area of study includes four lakes on King George Island, one on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and lakes in the southern tip of South America (Lake Fagnano and Lake Yehuin - Tierra del Fuego).

The study invoves the coring of Antarctic and Patagonian lakes and peat bogs, and late Cenozoic to recent sediment sampling in lakes, moraines and fluvioglacial environments. The studies main emphasis is to contribute to the knowledge of climate evolution in relation to terrestrial environments and biota during the Cenozoic and especially during postglacial Holocene times in the Antarctic Peninsula and cordilleran and marginal areas of south-western Argentina as a contribution to the Global Change Program.