The first paper of my PhD, “A data-model approach to interpreting speleothem oxygen isotope records from monsoon regions on orbital timescales”, is available online at Climate of the Past Discussions…Read More >
early career
Virtual visit to the Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison
This month I have been in Tsinghua virtually, working on a daily basis with the team in Earth Sciences: Han Wang, Huiying Xu, Shengchao Qiao, Yanghan Ren, Ziqi Zhu and…Read More >
The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner
Finally… long in the making, my “method” paper is out in Quaternary Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.44 today. It could not have been completed without a great deal of help from my co-authors…Read More >
A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison
The good news this morning is that Sean’s paper describing the new method he’s developed to reconstruct palaeoclimate using data assimilation techniques has been published (open access, of course) In…Read More >
UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner
Global change in the Anthropocene knows no political boundaries. We need to understand environmental dynamics on regional to global scales, to understand the implications of global change for the future…Read More >
“Climate Change: the FAQs” and CLIMOVAR workshop. By Laia Comas Bru
What are the causes of climate change? And its consecuences? What can we do about it? These are some of the questions posed by Secondary School students about climate change…Read More >
SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison
The Gongga Mountains in Sichuan are foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and provide a very special opportunity to gather data on the environmental controls on leaf traits. Following a first…Read More >
The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru
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 >
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 >
