Journal articles

Climate change is allowing fire to expand into previously unburnt ecosystems and regions. In this study, the authors focus on Killarney National Park, Ireland. An area which today is under threat from an increase in fire activity. Comparing palaeoecological and archaeological records, we reconstruct the past fire dynamic and its impact on the landscape, and evaluate the role of climate vs humans in influencing the natural fire regime over the millennial time-scale. 

This paper documents a recent glacial advance at 3 locations across the Antarctic Peninsula which occurred 400 to 90 cal BP (1550–1860 CE), and possibly as 2 advances. The advance is similar in age to the “Little Ice Age” in the Northern Hemisphere.

In this paper, the authors use numerical models to simulate the impact of extreme marine events, at the time of their occurrence, along the Ognina coastal sector, with the aim to: i) better define the tsunamigenic sources responsible for the events found in the deposits, ii) verify if some units could be related to a storm event, iii) investigate constrains on the paleogeography of the studied area at the time of tsunami and storm occurrence. Results demonstrate that the use of advanced modeling tools, combined with in situ geological evidence and geophysical survey, has the potential to support the attribution of coastal geomorphic imprints to specific tsunami or storm events, the better definition of the paleo-landscapes, and the identification of the most likely tsunamigenic sources. 

This research was supported through the White Rose Collaboration Fund and forms part of the Refugia of Futures Past project which received support from PAGES. 

The data used in this study were compiled in WALIS, a sea-level database interface developed by ERC Starting Grant “WARMCOASTS” (StG-802414) in collaboration with the PALSEA (PAGES/INQUA) working group. 
 

This research contributes to the DiverseK (a working group of PAGES) initiative.

This paper is the product of Patrick Boyden’s Master Thesis at the University of Bremen. 

The authors acknowledge the PAGES PALSEA/INQUA working group for useful discussions and comments at the 2019 workshop (Dublin, Ireland, 21–23 July 2019).

This publication is a contribution to the OC3 working group.

The data presented in this study were compiled in WALIS, a sea-level database interface developed by the ERC starting grant “WARMCOASTS”, in collaboration with the PALSEA (PAGES/INQUA) working group.
 

The work profited from discussions at the Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS) working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) program.