Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas Bru attended the 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress between 25th and 31st July 2019 in Dublin (Ireland) to represent the SPECIAL research…Read More >
early career
Team member highlight: Dongyang Wei
Dongyang joined the SPECIAL group as a graduate research assistant after completing her MRes degree in Ecosystem and Environmental Change from Imperial College London. During her stay in SPECIAL group,…Read More >
EGU 2019 Science Highlights. By Mark Turner
Sandy Harrison, Laia Comas Bru, and I went to the EGU in Vienna last week, I for the first time. It’s a huge and impressively wide-ranging conference (and in a…Read More >
Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change. By Laia Comas Bru
Although quantitative isotopic data from speleothems has been used to evaluate isotope-enabled model simulations in the past, currently no consensus exists regarding the most appropriate methodology through which achieve this….Read More >
SISAL: Bringing Added Value to Speleothem Research. By Laia Comas Bru
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 >
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 >
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 >
3rd SISAL workshop in Agadir (Morocco). By Laia Comas Bru
On October 8th, Agadir (Morocco) welcomed us with a stunning sunshine for the third workshop of the PAGES-sponsored SISAL working group. Compared to previous workshops, where the group agreed on…Read More >
