| Major ecological and paleoclimate studies have been made in the dry valleys of Victoria Land east of McMurdo Sound. |
| Thus paleoclimate observations from the west coast of Canada are of both regional and continental importance. |
| The latter is important to glaciology, paleoclimate and changes in global sea level. |
| Professor Ian Plimer, geologist and paleoclimate expert, University of Adelaide. |
| The group has been in the forefront of this sort of climate research using ice cores and in the interpretation of the paleoclimate histories. |
| However, paleoclimate scientists have also made some approximations of global temperatures further back in time. |
