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Team member highlight – WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020

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9th December 202010th December 2020

The WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize is awarded annually to an early- to mid-career researcher for their outstanding contribution to the Earth system science community, through achievements in data product generation, data…Read More >

Team member highlight – WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020

The SPECIAL presence at the PMIP2020 meeting

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1st December 2020

The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison project (PMIP; https://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/), which began in the early 1990s to provide an efficient mechanism for coordinating palaeoclimate modelling activities, held it’s biannual meeting in Nanjing (China)…Read More >

The SPECIAL presence at the PMIP2020 meeting

What are the drivers of regional-scale speleothem oxygen isotope trends? By Sarah Parker

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24th July 2020

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 >

What are the drivers of regional-scale speleothem oxygen isotope trends?  By Sarah Parker

The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner

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25th June 202025th June 2020

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 >

The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner

P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production. By Sandy Harrison

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27th March 202027th March 2020

The P model is increasingly at the centre of work that we are doing in the SPECIAL group, forming the basis for work on past vegetation productivity, peatland growth and…Read More >

P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production. By Sandy Harrison

UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner

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11th October 2019

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 >

UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner

SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison

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11th September 201930th September 2019

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 >

SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison

The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru

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10th August 201930th October 2020

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 >

The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru

Team member highlight: Dongyang Wei

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14th June 2019

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 >

Team member highlight: Dongyang Wei

Contact: Prof. Sandy Harrison

s.p.harrison@reading.ac.uk

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