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Troms\u00f8 will soon be one of few\u00a0places in the world where scientists can analyze clumped isotopes. The groundbreaking method allows for more precise reconstruction of past climate changes, and will be performed with the new mass spectrometer currently being installed at CAGE.<\/h4>\n

Text: Maja Sojtaric<\/h6>\n

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Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at UiT The Arctic University of Norway will this fall finalize installation of a new mass spectrometer. The instrument will eventually enable scientists to do analysis of so called clumped isotopes, a method that makes, among other parameters, carbon dating much more precise.<\/p>\n

This relatively new method is a game changer when it comes to precise measurements of temperatures of the past. This makes reconstruction of past climate (paleoclimate) more accurate.<\/p>\n

In short it is the best thermometer we have for interpreting past climate change.<\/p>\n

“Not only that,\u201d says associate professor\u00a0Giuliana Panieri, \u201cit was recently discovered that this type of analysis is useful for\u00a0detecting the natural sources of methane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases and influences current global warming through both natural\u00a0emissions as well as emissions from human activities<\/a>. There are three potential sources of methane in the Arctic: biogenic, thermogenic and abiotic. Defining the source makes it possible to figure out how methane is formed and distributed: through the decomposition of organic matter or through reactions between the earth\u00b4s crust and the mantel. That in turn helps scientists account for amounts of this highly potent climate gas, which may be hidden beneath\u00a0the seabed\u00a0in the Arctic Ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsotopic measurements are the base of various climate\u00a0investigations that we conduct at CAGE. They help us reconstruct environmental and climate conditions of the past. They also can help as define if there were methane emissions from the ocean floor in the past, and where they occurred.\u201d says Panieri.<\/p>\n

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The newly appointed manager of the Mass Spec. Laboratory PhD Matteus Lindgren is showing some hardware of the MAT 253 Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer to Assoc. prof, Giuliana Panieri, laboratory manager Trine Dahl and Director of CAGE J\u00fcrgen Mienert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A similar instrument is also planned to be\u00a0installed at University of Bergen, making Norway the only country in Europe that will have two mass spectrometer laboratories of this kind.<\/p>\n

“We will contribute with an exchange of experience with\u00a0our colleagues in Bergen. These instruments will provide\u00a0Norway with cutting edge\u00a0tools for climate research in decades to come.” says CAGE director J\u00fcrgen Mienert.<\/p>\n

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Only ten institutions\u00a0in the world have a mass spectrometer of this kind. Caltech, USA<\/a>; University of California, USA<\/a>; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, USA<\/a>; Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA<\/a>; Harvard University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, USA<\/a>; University of Chicago, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, USA;<\/a> Imperial College, London, UK<\/a>; Geological Institute, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland<\/a>; Research Center for Environmental Changes,(Academia Sinica, Taipei, (Taiwan) <\/a> And CAGE \u2013 Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Troms\u00f8 will soon be one of few\u00a0places in the world where scientists can analyze clumped … <\/p>\n

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