15 (2): Past Climate Dynamics: A Southern Perspective
This newsletter issue focuses on some science highlights and news articles, which are predominantly linked with Southern hemisphere projects, and covers all major southern landmasses and the Southern Ocean.
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Individual Newsletter Articles
Announcements
> Inside PAGES [p.3]
Editorial
> Developments in southern hemisphere paleoclimate research [p.2]
P. Kershaw and J. Chappellaz
Science Highlights
> Extending the Americas paleoclimate transect through the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pole [p.6-7]
D. Hodgson, E. Wolff, R. Mulvaney and C. Allen
> The Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project [p.7-8]
C. A. Scholz
> Recent advances in understanding Antarctic climate evolution [p.9-11]
M. J. Siegert, P. Barrett, R. DeConto, R. Dunbar, C. Ó Cofaigh, S. Passchier and T. Naish
> Antarctic ice cores [p.11-12]
E. Wolff and E. Brook
> Late Quaternary Antarctic sea-ice history: Evidence from deep-sea sediment records [p.13-14]
X. Crosta
> Long records of climate in southern Australasia [p.15-16]
T. T. Barrows and P. De Decker
> Dynamic Antarctic Ice: Agent for Mid-Pleistocene Transition [p.16-18]
J. M. Bowler and M. Sandiford
> NZ-Maars: Extracting high resolution paleoclimate records from maar crater lakes, Auckland, New Zealand [p.18-20]
P. Augustinus
> Five centuries of ENSO history recorded in Agathis australis (kauri) tree rings [p.20-21]
A. Fowler and G. Boswijkjk
> Linkages between southern hemisphere westerlies and hydrological changes in semi-arid Patagonia during the last 16,000 years [p.22-23]
T. Haberzettl, C. Mayr, M. Wille and B. Zolitschka
> Tree-ring evidence for tropical-extratropical influences on climate variability along the Andes in South America [p.23-25]
R. Villalba
> Late Quaternary dune development along the western margin of South Africa and its relationship to paleoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record [p.26-27]
B. Chase, D.S.G. Thomas, M.D. Bateman and M.E. Meadows
Open Science Highlights
> Rapid 20th-century increase in coastal upwelling off northwest Africa revealed by high-resolution marine sediment cores [p.28-30]
H.V. McGregor and S. Mulitza
Program News
> Working Group on Arctic climate during the last two millennia [p.5]
> University of Bern’s new “Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research” [p.4]
Workshop Reports
> UK IGBP - Paleo and modern perspectives on global change: A personal summary [p.30-31]
> Paleo-databases: Their role in modeling, reconstructing paleoclimate and
understanding paleoenvironments [p.32]
> ESF-EuroClimate: Radiocarbon and ice-core chronologies during glacial and deglacial times [p.33]
> The Eastern African Quaternary Research Association (EAQUA) inaugural workshop [p.34]
