The introductory paper of the SISAL’s Special Issue in the open-access journal “Quaternary”, edited by Sandy Harrison and myself, is now published: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/2/1/7. In this editorial paper, we discuss some…Read More >
How does climate change in semi-arid Spain from 130,000 years ago? By Dongyang Wei
Our paper “Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene” is now online in Climate of the Past Discussions (https://www.clim-past-discuss.net/cp-2019-16/). In this paper, we…Read More >
LandCover6k European Land Use chapter meeting. By Sandy Harrison
LandCover 6k is an international initiative sponsored by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project (http://pastglobalchanges.org/landcover6k). One of the goals is to create a global data set of anthropogenic land use…Read More >
Four in one blow. By Sandy Harrison
I feel like the tailor in Grimm’s Das tapfere Schneiderlein today, with four papers being submitted in one day. Dongyang’s persistence on getting the Villarquemado climate reconstruction paper submitted before…Read More >
New Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society. By Sandy Harrison
The SPECIAL group is part of the new Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, which was announced by the Leverhulme Trust today. Wildfire is of great importance for landscapes…Read More >
What do speleothems in Western Europe record? By Laia Comas Bru
Our paper “The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: A Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database” is now on-line in Quaternary. This is a contribution…Read More >
What causes spatial and temporal differences in photosynthetic traits? By Sandy Harrison
Our new paper “Functional trait variation related to gap dynamics in tropical moist forests: a vegetation modelling perspective” is now online in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. This…Read More >
Keeping data FAIR with the World Data System. By Sandy Harrison
I’ve been at the 19th Meeting of the Scientific Committee of World Data System (WDS: https://www.icsu-wds.org/) in Cape Town (12-13th November). The objectives of the WDS are to enable universal…Read More >
Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison
I have spent the last three weeks working at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as part of my on-going Chinese High End Expert appointment. During this time, I’ve been working with…Read More >
SISAL3 meeting – What work is in progress? By Sarah Parker
The 3rd SISAL workshop took place from the 8th to the 12th October, 2017, in Agadir, Morocco. Approximately 20 researchers from around the globe congregated at the University of Ibn…Read More >
