Winter Sediment Coring

Watercolor and Colored Pencil, 2020

Collaboration with scientist Dr. Laura Parducci

Climate change artist Jill Pelto has been collaborating with an international science team for the last few years. The team is based in Sweden, Norway, and Italy. The primary collaborator on this project is Dr. Laura Parducci, a paleo-ecologists currently based in Rome. Jill created five paintings for the team that tell a story about how Laura and her co-workers do their field research, what they find, how they use the data, and why that’s important today.

This painting is the first in the series — depicting two women scientists take a sediment core from a lake bottom. One method of doing this it to take the core during the winter, so that the scientists can stand on the lake ice. The coring equipment has to be drilled through the ice, reach all the way through the water, and finally extract layers of sediment from the lake bottom. In the sediment, they will find ancient pollen and seeds. Of particular interest is pollen from the Norway spruce tree (Picea abies L. Karst.)  

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