April 14, 2010 David R. Klein, Tracking Ecological Change from Earliest Human Arrival in Alaska to the Present, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Quartz Lake-Shaw Creek Flats Multidisciplinary Project
Tracking Ecological Change from Earliest Human Arrival in Alaska to the Present

David R. Klein
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF

The Quartz Lake-Shaw Creek Flats Project is a multidisciplinary,
ecosystem level study with geographical focus on a 215 km² wetland
complex in the middle Tanana River valley of Alaska. The wetland is
bordered by at least three of the earliest archaeological sites yet
found in E. Beringia The project’s focus is on tracking ecological
change in this wetland complex from the end of the Last Glacial
Maximum, when humans presumably first entered this region, to the
present, a time of accelerated climate change.