• East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation 

      Chen, Fahu; Xu, Qinghai; Chen, Jianhui; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Liu, Jianbao; Zhang, Shengrui; Jin, Liya; An, Chengbang; Telford, Richard; Cao, Xianyong; Wang, Zongli; Zhang, Xiaojian; Selvaraj, Kandasamy; Lu, Houyuan; Li, Yuecong; Zheng, Zhuo; Wang, Haipeng; Zhou, Aifeng; Dong, Guanghui; Zhang, Jiawu; Huang, Xiaozhong; Bloemendal, Jan; Rao, Zhiguo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-18)
      The lack of a precisely-dated, unequivocal climate proxy from northern China, where precipitation variability is traditionally considered as an East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) indicator, impedes our understanding of the ...
    • Massive structural and compositional changes over two decades in forest fragments near Kampala, Uganda 

      Bulafu, Collins Edward; Baranga, Deborah; Mucunguzi, Patrick; Telford, Richard; Vandvik, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Private forests harbor considerable biodiversity, however, they are under greater threat than reserved areas, particularly from urbanization, agriculture, and intense exploitation for timber and fuel wood. The extent to ...
    • Next-generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning 

      Geange, Sonya Rita; von Oppen, Jonathan; Strydom, Tanya; Boakye, Mickey; Gauthier, Tasha-Leigh J.; Gya, Ragnhild; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Jessup, Laura H.; Middleton, Sara L.; Navarro, Jocelyn; Peirfederici, Maria Elisa; Chacón-Labella, Julia; Cotner, Sehoya Harris; Farfan-Rios, William; Maitner, Brian S.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Telford, Richard; Enquist, Brian J.; Vandvik, Vigdis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      As Open Science practices become more commonplace, there is a need for the next generation of scientists to be well versed in these aspects of scientific research. Yet, many training opportunities for early career researchers ...
    • PaCTS 1.0: a crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data 

      Khider, Deborah; Emile-Geay, Julien; McKay, Nicholas P.; Gil, Yolanda; Garijo, Daniel; Ratnakar, Varun; Alonso-Garcia, Montserrat; Bertrand, Sebastien; Bothe, Oliver; Brewer, Peter; Bunn, Andrew G.; Chevalier, Manuel; Comas-Bru, Laia; Csank, Adam; Dassié, Emilie; DeLong, Kristine L.; Felis, Thomas; Francus, Pierre; Frappier, Amy; Gray, William R.; Goring, Simon; Jonkers, Lukas; Kahle, Michael; Kaufman, Darrell S.; Kehrwald, Natalie M.; Martrat, Belen; McGregor, Helen V; Richey, Julie; Schmittner, Andreas; Scroxton, Nick; Sutherland, Elaine K.; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; Allen, Kathryn J.; Arnaud, Fabien; Axford, Yarrow; Barrows, Timothy T.; Bazin, Lucie; Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E.; Bradley, Elizabeth; Bregy, Joshua; Capron, Emilie; Cartapanis, Olivier; Chiang, Hong-Wei; Cobb, Kim M.; Debret, Maxime; Dommain, René; Du, Jianghui; Dyez, Kelsey A.; Emerick, Suellyn; Erb, Michael P.; Falster, Georgina; Finsinger, Walter; Fortier, Daniel; Gauthier, Nicholas; George, Steve; Grimm, Eric C.; Hertzberg, Jennifer; Hibbert, Fiona D.; Hillman, Aubrey; Hobbs, William R; Huber, Matthew; Hughes, Anna L.C.; Jaccard, Samuel L.; Ruan, Jiaoyang; Kienast, Markus; Konecky, Bronwen; Le Roux, Gael; Lyubchich, Vyacheslav; Novello, Valdir F.; Olaka, Lydia; Partin, Judson; Pearce, Christof; Phipps, Steven J.; Pignol, Cecile; Piotrowska, Natalia; Poli, Maria-Serena; Prokopenko, Alexander; Schwank, Franciele; Stepanek, Christian; Swann, George E.A.; Telford, Richard; Thomas, Elizabeth R.; Thomas, Zoe; Truebe, Sarah; Von Gunten, Lucien; Waite, Amanda J.; Weitzel, Nils; Wilhelm, Bruno; Williams, John W.; Williams, Joseph J.; Winstrup, Mai; Zhao, Ning; Zhou, Yuxin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)
      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. ...
    • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies 

      Chevalier, Manuel; Davis, Basil A. S.; Heiri, Olivier; Seppä, Heikki; Chase, Brian M; Gajewski, Konrad; Lacourse, Terri; Telford, Richard; Finsinger, Walter; Guiot, Joël; Kühl, Norbert; Maezumi, S. Yoshi; Tipton, John R.; Carter, Vachel A.; Brussel, Thomas; Phelps, Leanne N.; Dawson, Andria; Zanon, Marco; Vallé, Francesca; Nolan, Connor; Mauri, Achille; de Vernal, Anne; Izumi, Kenji; Holmström, Lasse; Marsicek, Jeremiah; Goring, Simon; Sommer, Philipp S.; Chaput, Michelle; Kupriyanov, Dimitry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine sediments, has made palynology one of the most ...
    • Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China 

      Herzschuh, Ulrike; Cao, Xianyong; Laepple, Thomas; Dallmeyer, Anne; Telford, Richard; Ni, Jian; Chen, Fahu; Kong, Zhaochen; Liu, Guangxui; Liu, Kam-Bui; Liu, Xingqi; Stebich, Martina; Tang, Lingyu; Tian, Fang; Wang, Yongbo; Wischnewski, Juliane; Xu, Qinghai; Yan, Shun; Yang, Zhenjing; Yu, Ge; Zhang, Yun; Zhao, Yan; Zheng, Zhuo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-30)
      Proxy-based reconstructions and modeling of Holocene spatiotemporal precipitation patterns for China and Mongolia have hitherto yielded contradictory results indicating that the basic mechanisms behind the East Asian Summer ...
    • Review and test of reproducibility of subdecadal resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from microfossil assemblages 

      Telford, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Very high, even annual, resolution quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions have been generated from microfossil assemblage data using transfer functions. Evidence of the utility of some of these reconstructions ...
    • The role of the northward-directed (sub)surface limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the 8.2 ka event 

      Tegzes, Andrea Diana; Jansen, Eystein; Telford, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-24)
      The so-called "8.2 ka event" is widely regarded as a major Holocene climate perturbation. It is most readily identifiable in the oxygen-isotope records from Greenland ice cores as an approximately 160-year-long cold interval ...
    • Temporal patterns in Saturnidae (silk moth) and Sphingidae (hawk moth) assemblages in protected forests of central Uganda 

      Akite, Perpetra; Telford, Richard; Waring, Paul; Akol, Anne M; Vandvik, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-25)
      Forest-dependent biodiversity is threatened throughout the tropics by habitat loss and land-use intensification of the matrix habitats. We resampled historic data on two moth families, known to play central roles in many ...
    • Younger Dryas ice margin retreat triggered by ocean surface warming in central-eastern Baffin Bay 

      Oksman, Mimmi; Weckström, Kaarina; Miettinen, Arto; Juggins, Stephen; Divine, Dmitry V; Jackson, Rebecca; Telford, Richard; Korsgaard, Niels J.; Kučera, Michal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10-18)
      The transition from the last ice age to the present-day interglacial was interrupted by the Younger Dryas (YD) cold period. While many studies exist on this climate event, only few include high-resolution marine records ...