Professor Robert Gilbert, of Queen's University's Geography Department, and graduate student Asa Chong have been assessing Holocene paleoenvironmental change along the Antarctic Peninsula, with emphasis on fiords and the Palmer Deep, a closed depression on the continental shelf near Anvers Island. Work at the latter site was linked to the recovery of long cores as part of the Ocean Drilling Project. The Antarctic work extends paleoenvironmental and process studies in lakes and fiords of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.