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Paleoclimatology/Paleoecology AG

(Sectioning a lake sediment core from the High Arctic.  Credit: Marianne Douglas)

Chairs

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John Smol
Queen's University
Canada
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Bianca Perren
British Antarctic Survey
United Kingdom
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Scope

The purpose of the Paleoclimate Action Group is to bring together new and existing lake sediment-derived paleoecological and paleoclimate records from across the circumpolar north.
​These records will provide a long-term, multi-millennial ecological and climate context for more process-oriented terrestrial and atmospheric T-MOSAiC studies.

The Paleoclimate AG will seek to answer the following critical questions:

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1) What are the main modes of natural variability over the last >10 000 years?

2) Can we detect human impacts on the environment (recent warming, land-use changes, atmospheric pollution)?

3) Do these changes have spatial and temporal variability? Can we identify critical thresholds?
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3) How can we use these impacts to anticipate future changes? How can we manage these changes?
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Images from Hudson Bay Lowlands, Arctic Canada: top predator (polar bear), primary producers (assortment of freshwater diatoms) and aerial view of landscape. Photo credits: Jon Sweetman (polar bear), Kathleen Rühland (diatoms ) and Kathryn Hargan (landscape photo)
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Collecting sediment cores from lakes in the Hudson Bay Lowlands of Canada.  Image taken by Bill Keller.

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Members (updated regurlaly)

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Mary Edwards 
Southampton University
United Kingdom
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Kathleen Rühland 
Queen's University
Canada
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Dermot Antoniades
Université Laval
Canada
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