Variability in the Northern North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Across the Last Two Millennia: A Review

Our review as part of the RAPID AMOC AGU special issue has now been published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Moffa‐Sánchez, P., Moreno‐Chamarro, E., Reynolds, D. J., Ortega, P., Cunningham, L., Swingedouw, D., Amrhein, D. E., Halfar, J., Jonkers, L., Jungclaus, J. H. Perner, K., Wanamaker, A. and Yeager, S. 2019. Variability in the Northern North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Across the Last Two Millennia: A Review. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 10.1029/2018PA003508.

North Atlantic review

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2018PA003508

Game Developers’ Approaches to Communicating Climate Change

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Our new paper on investigating novel techniques in communicating the complexities of modern climate change has now been published in Frontiers of Communication.

check out the paper here:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00028/full

or if you want to check out the games that were entered into the competition check out the itch page:

https://itch.io/jam/climate-jam-2018/entries

game jam games

This project was supported by the Welsh Crucible

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An integrated carbon and oxygen isotope approach to reconstructing past environmental variability in the northeast Atlantic Ocean

palaeo3 logoOur New paper investigating the application of carbon and oxygen isotopes derived from the long-lived marine bivalve mollusc Glycymeris glycymeris has now been published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018218310782).

This paper also details the investigation of age related trends in carbon isotope records derived from G. glycymeris shells

 

The revolution of crossdating in marine palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology

Our new paper outlining the recent advances in the field of sclerochronology and scleroclimatology has now been published in Biology letters (Black et al., 2019). Check it out at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0665

Crossdated marine chronologies. Locations of crossdated tree-ring chronologies available through the International Tree-Ring Data bank. Locations ofpublished marine sclerochronologies for which there was replication (generallyn.5) and at least some mention of visual cross-matching of patterns amongsamples. Note: chronology metadata are provided in electronic supplementary material, table S1. Figure from Black et al., 2019.
Crossdated marine chronologies. Locations of crossdated tree-ring chronologies available through the International Tree-Ring Data bank. Locations ofpublished marine sclerochronologies for which there was replication (generallyn.5) and at least some mention of visual cross-matching of patterns amongsamples. Note: chronology metadata are provided in electronic supplementary material, table S1. Figure from Black et al., 2019.

 

Laboratory of Tree Ring Research

img_2661.jpgI have now moved institutes, leaving the School of Earth and Ocean Science at Cardiff University where I have been placed for the last five years. I have joined the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona. I am working with Prof. Bryan Black to set up a new sclerochronology facility within the LTRR. I will be working on developing novel multi-proxy reconstructions of Pacific decadal variability using marine molluscs and terrestrial archives derived from tree rings.

New sclerochronology PhD opportunity

We have a new PhD opportunity to work on sclerochronological archives here in the School of Earth and OCean Science at Cardiff University as part of the NERC GW4 doctoral training partnership.

More details avilable here:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/project/assessing-the-potential-of-the-marine-bivalve-glycymeris-glycymeris-for-providing-novel-geochemical-baseline-records-from-the-northeast-atlantic-region