14 (2): U.S. Earth System History Science
The short articles presented in this issue of PAGES news were volunteered primarily by researchers funded by the US NSF's Earth System History (ESH) program. They represent a small cross-section of the range of science address by the cross-disciplinary ESH initiative.
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Extras
Individual Newsletter Articles
Announcements
> Inside PAGES [p.3]
Editorial
> U.S. Earth System History Program in Transition [p.2]
J. Brigham-Grette
Science Highlights
> Climate-related changes in export production off the Pacific coast of Mexico during the last deglaciation [p.6-7]
R.F. Anderson, M.Q. Fleisher and P.W. Kubik
> Is there a pervasive Holocene ice-rafted debris (IRD) signal in the northern North Atlantic? The answer appears to be either no, or it depends on the proxy! [p.7-9]
J.T. Andrews, A.E. Jennings, M. Moros, C. Hillaire-Marcel and D. Eberl
> Progress in the study of Asian Monsoon climate dynamics using dendrochronology [p.10-11]
B.M. Buckley, R.D. D’arrigo, E.R. Cook, G.C. Jacoby and W.E. Wright
> Solar forcing of the tropical Pacific climate and impacts over North America for the last millennium [p.12-14]
A.C. Clement, J.N Emile-Geay, R. Seager, M. Cane and M.N. Evans
> The mystery interval 17.5 to 14.5 kyrs ago [p.14-16]
G.H. Denton, W.S. Broecker and R.B. Alley
> Delayed onset of the South American Summer Monsoon during the Last Glacial Maximum [p.17-18]
K.H. Cook and E.K. Vizy
> Large lake drilling projects supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Earth Systems History Program [p.19-20]
S. Fritz, T. Johnson, P. Baker, S. Colman, W. Dean and J. Peck
> Oak growth in Midwestern North America linked with post glacial climate epochs in the North Atlantic [p.21-22]
R.P. Guyette, M.C. Stambaugh, A. Lupo, R.-M. Muzika and D.C. Dey
> Consolidating high- and low-resolution information from different sources into a Northern Hemisphere climate reconstruction [p.22-24]
S. Huang
> Can models of abrupt climate change be tested from sea level reconstructions? [p.24-26]
C. Jackson, Y. Liu and O. Marchal
> Late Holocene hydrological variability in ombrotrophic peatlands of eastern North America [p.26-28]
S.T. Jackson, R.K. Booth, Y. Huang, E.G. Pendall, J.E. Nichols, T.A. Minckley and M. Taylor
Open Science Highlights
> San Valentin glacier ice core (Chilean Patagonia) – Filling the gap between Central Andes and Antarctica [p.29-30]
P. Ginot, F. Vimeux, M. De Angelis and O. Magand
> Sediment, pollen and isotope evidence for an Early to Mid-Holocene humid period in the desert of Yemen [p.30-32]
A.-M. Lézine, C. Robert, J.-F. Saliège and J.-J. Tiercelin
> A better climate for human evolution [p.32-34]
M.H. Trauth, M.A. Maslin, A. Deino and M.R. Strecker
> Surface temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years [p.34-36]
G.R. North and I. Kraucunas
Program News
> DAYACLIM: A northern Sahara desert climate change project [p.4]
Workshop Reports
> The HOLIVAR Open Science Meeting [p.37-38]
> PAGES/CLIVAR workshop on past millennia climate variability – synthesis and outlook [p.38-39]
> ICDP workshop PASADO: Deep drilling at Laguna Potrok Aike, a maar lake in southern Argentina [p.39-40]
> Climate change: A multi-dimensional challenge [p.40-41]
> New trends in Geomorphology – systems-based understanding of long term man-landscape interactions [p.41-42]
> Linkage between marine and terrestrial processes during past rapid climatic changes [p.42-43]
> Monitoring Indonesian throughflow variability: Challenges and perspectives [p.43]
