A call is now open for nominations for the INQUA Executive Committee for 2015-2019.
The closing date for nominations is 31st January 2015. You can download the relevant application form on the News section of the INQUA web site.
Our Global Monsoon Working Group has just published a paper in the open access journal Climate of the Past.
This study, the first of two major syntheses of the group, takes a global view of monsoon variability across a wide range of timescales. The paper concludes with a discussion on future monsoon shifts in a warming world.
Our new working group, Global Soil & Sediment transfers in the Anthropocene (GloSS), will integrate the domains of geomorphology, paleoecology, archaeology, and history to investigate past human-landscape interactions and the sustainable use of soils, sediments, and river systems.
GloSS will analyze the global pattern of anthropogenic soil erosion and the transfer and storage of sediment and determine the sensitivity of soil resources and sediment routing systems to varying land use types under contrasting climate regimes and socio-ecological settings.
Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 22 (2):
Dust
This issue of PAGES Magazine addresses mineral dust, giving an overview of the science the ADOM working group has focused on in recent years. It covers both modern developments and paleo archives and highlights challenges to state-of-the art dust research.
Our new Aquatic Transitions Working Group will synthesize paleoecological records of change in aquatic systems both regionally and globally to reveal the sensitivity of sites to critical stages of human impact and the internal dynamics of changes within wetlands, rivers and lakes.
Further, Aquatic Transitions will seek to identify points of change, early warning systems and feedbacks that may provide insights for waterway management.
The constraints on surface seawater oxygen isotope change between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Late Holocene are addressed in a recent paper in Quaternary Science Reviews by a sub-group of the former MARGO (Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface) project.
The international MARGO effort was supported by IMAGES and PAGES from 1999-2009.
In a recent Global Change Biology paper, the Land Use & Cover Group present pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in Europe for five time windows in the Holocene.
The study reveals significant information about different reconstruction approaches which can be incorporated in reconstructions of European landscapes, land cover–climate interactions, biodiversity and human resources.
