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The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii) (2020)
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Donald, H. K., Foster, G. L., Fröhberg, N., Swann, G. E. A., Poulton, A. J., Moore, C. M., & Humphreys, M. P. (2020). The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii). Biogeosciences, 17(10), 2825-2837. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2825-2020

The high-latitude oceans are key areas of carbon and heat exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. As such, they are a focus of both modern oceanographic and palaeoclimate research. However, most palaeoclimate proxies that could provide a long-... Read More about The pH dependency of the boron isotopic composition of diatom opal (Thalassiosira weissflogii).

Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia (2019)
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Roberts, S., Adams, J. K., Mackay, A. W., Swann, G. E. A., McGowan, S., Rose, N. L., Panizzo, V., Yang, H., Vologina, E., Sturm, M., & Shchetnikov, A. A. (2020). Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia. Environmental Pollution, 259, Article 113814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113814

Mercury (Hg) loading in Lake Baikal, a UNESCO world heritage site, is growing and poses a serious health concern to the lake’s ecosystem due to the ability of Hg to transform into a toxic form, known as methylmercury (MeHg). Monitoring of Hg into Lak... Read More about Mercury loading within the Selenga River basin and Lake Baikal, Siberia.

PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data (2019)
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Khider, D., Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas-Bru, L., Csank, A., Dassié, E., DeLong, K., Felis, T., Francus, P., Frappier, A., Gray, W., …Zhou, Y. (2019). PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(10), 1570-1596. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003632

The progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data age, where analyzing large data volumes critically hinges on the data being standardized. Accordingly, the lack of... Read More about PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data.

Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years (2019)
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Worne, S., Kender, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Ravelo, A. C. (2019). Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.028

High latitude deep water upwelling has the potential to control global climate over glacial timescales through the biological pump and ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange. However, there is currently a lack of continuous long nutrient upwelling records wit... Read More about Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years.

Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling (2018)
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Kender, S., Ravelo, A. C., Worne, S., Swann, G. E. A., Leng, M. J., Asahi, H., Becker, J., Detlef, H., Aiello, I. W., Andreasen, D., & Hall, I. R. (2018). Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 5386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07828-0

The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) is characterised by cooling and lengthening glacial cycles from 600–1200 ka, thought to be driven by reductions in glacial CO2 in particular from ~900 ka onwards. Reduced high latitude upwelling, a process that re... Read More about Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling.

Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia (2018)
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Roberts, S., Swann, G., McGowan, S., Panizzo, V., Vologina, E., Sturm, M., & Mackay, A. (2018). Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia. PLoS ONE, 13(12), Article e020876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208765

Lake Baikal has been experiencing limnological changes from recent atmospheric warming since the 1950s, with rising lake water temperatures, reduced ice cover duration and reduced lake surface-water mixing due to stronger thermal stratification. This... Read More about Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia.

Recent ecological change in ancient lakes (2018)
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Hampton, S. E., McGowan, S., Ozersky, T., Virdis, S. G. P., Vu, T. T., Spanbauer, T. L., Kraemer, B. M., Swann, G., Mackay, A. W., Powers, S. M., Meyer, M. F., Labou, S. G., O'Reilly, C. M., DiCarlo, M., Galloway, A. W. E., & Fritz, S. C. (2018). Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2277-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10938

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic events, and long association with human settlements. These lakes not only rec... Read More about Recent ecological change in ancient lakes.

Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal (2018)
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Panizzo, V., Swann, G., Mackay, A., Pashley, V., & Horstwood, M. (2018). Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.006

Limnological reconstructions of primary productivity have demonstrated its response over Quaternary timescales to drivers such as climate change, landscape evolution and lake ontogeny. In particular, sediments from Lake Baikal, Siberia, provide a val... Read More about Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal.

Late Pliocene Marine pCO2 Reconstructions From the Subarctic Pacific Ocean (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Kendrick, C. P., Dickson, A. J., & Worne, S. (2018). Late Pliocene Marine pCO2 Reconstructions From the Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(5), 457-469. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003296

The development of large ice-sheets across the Northern Hemisphere during the late Pliocene and the emergence of the glacial-interglacial cycles that punctuate the Quaternary mark a significant threshold in Earth's climate history. Although a number... Read More about Late Pliocene Marine pCO2 Reconstructions From the Subarctic Pacific Ocean.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Snelling, A. M., & Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.