The RewarD project

The RewarD project (2019-2023) focused on murtoos and the related subglacial meltwater routes in Finland. The importance of the project was that these types of glacial landforms (murtoos and the related subglacial drainage routes) have not yet been properly described, determined or named in glaciated terrains of North-America and Eurasia. RewarD endeavored to fill in the gap in the current theory of subglacial meltwater flow and related modelling approaches by introducing the missing link between channelized and distributed drainage systems. The project was accomplished in collaboration with our international partners with wide expertise in Quaternary mapping, glacial sedimentology and dynamics as well as the modelling of subglacial drainage. For our publications related to the RewarD project, please refer to our Research and Publications page.

The RewarD project was funded by the Academy of Finland for the time period 2019-2023.

Principal investigator (PI) of the consortium: Joni Mäkinen, University of Turku (UTU)
Consortium subproject PI: Antti Ojala, University of  Turku (UTU)