\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ig.cas.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/yla\u0308-mella-300x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | Lotta Yl\u00e4-Mella<\/td>\n | MSc<\/td>\n | PhD student<\/td>\n | numerical modelling, geochronometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”15px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-1px|||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n \n \n Currently funded projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n- The first ice sheets of North America<\/em> (Czech Science Foundation 2026\u201328<\/strong>, J. Jansen PI)<\/li>\n
- Effusive Cryovolcanism: the battle of phases in a water table freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure<\/em> (Czech Science Foundation<\/strong>\u00a02025\u201327<\/strong>, P. Bro\u017e PI)<\/li>\n
- Tropical climate & vegetation response during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age; an integrated study of spatial & temporal variability <\/em>(Czech Science Foundation<\/strong>\u00a02025\u201327<\/strong>, J. Laurin Co-PI)<\/li>\n
- Unravelling the influence of frost heave & thaw settlement on thermal regime of permafrost & seasonally frozen ground & its implementation in freeze-thaw models <\/em>(Czech Science Foundation<\/strong>\u00a02025\u201327<\/strong>, T. Uxa PI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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