Madison Hills Paleoecology Project

The Madison Hills Paleoecology Project (MPEP) is a privately funded endeavor that, in 2009, drilled and sampled the layers of soft sediment that had accumulated in the deepest part of Big Pea Porridge Pond ("BPPP") in Madison, New Hampshire during the past +/- 14,000 years.
Its findings and carbon-14 date for the Pond’s formation of +/- 14,000 years before present has become an important data point in the wider study of New England’s deglaciation and related pattern of climate change back in that time frame.

For more details about these findings, view the report and project blog below.

Citizen Science and a Novel Approach to Project Funding

The Madison-Hills Paleoecology Project Blog