A 2d image of a collected sediment core. It includes layers containing grass phytoloths, petrified wood, fern impressions, crocodile teeth and petrified wood. This relates to the decisions I made - decreasing fire, increasing rainfall, raising the water table, drought, and reducing soil phosphorous.

This fantastic interactive art piece from @bluerehn and Nellie Pease is on display at the South Australian Museum, or you can check it out online at https://chronovarium.com/

Chronovarium encourages you to change boundary conditions, see how the landscape […]

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Shifts of climate implicated in change from Middle to Later Stone Age in southern #Africa

#archaeology #palaeoclimate#MSA #LSA

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027...

Plio-Pleistocene Hydroclimate of South Africa Explore Plio-Pleistocene carbonate records from South Africa, revealing hydroclimate variability and insights into Quaternary climate and early hominin environments.

🌄 Millions of years ago, South Africa’s caves recorded the climate our early human ancestors faced.

Dr Phil Hopley (Birkbeck) explores these Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimates at @ucl.ac.uk’s Palaeoclimate Seminar.

📅 12 Feb | 13:00–14:00

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #EarlyHominins #Geology

Climate: Past, Present & Future A blog hosted by the European Geosciences Union

🆕New Blog Post

🕒 CYCLIM: cycle counting a faster way
by Edward Forman

CYCLIM is a new free, point-and-click tool for counting annual cycles in palaeoclimate records.

👉 Read more: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl...

#EGU #EGUBlogs #ClimateofthePast #CYCLIM #Palaeoclimate #Geochemistry

Interglacial and glacial intensities over the past 1.5 Myr from sea surface temperature records Explore 1.5 million years of sea surface temperature records, revealing patterns in glacial and interglacial intensity and insights into long-term climate change.

🌡️ 1.5 million years of climate swings in one hour!

Prof. Chronis Tzedakis explores glacial & interglacial intensities using sea surface temperature records.

📅 5 Feb | 13:00–14:00

Part of the UCL Palaeoclimate Seminar Series – open to all.

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #ClimateScience

Exploring the rapid, unstable retreat of the central British–Irish Ice Sheet post-LGM Explore Investigating the unstable and rapid retreat of the central British-Irish Ice Sheet after the Last Glacial Maximum, revealing new insights into ice-sheet retreat and deglaciation.

❄️ How did the British–Irish Ice Sheet retreat after the Last Glacial Maximum?

Dr Alex Clark (@royalholloway.bsky.social) reveals new evidence for rapid, unstable ice-sheet retreat.

📅 22 Jan 2026 | 🕐 1–2 pm

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #Glaciology #IceSheet #ClimateHistory #UCLResearch

Seasonally Resolved Multiannual Droughts in the Maya Terminal Classic (800-1000 CE, Yucatán, Mexico) Explore how a seasonally resolved stalagmite record from the Yucatán reveals multi-year droughts during the Maya Terminal Classic, offering new insight into climate stress and socio-political change.

Dr Daniel James (@uclarchaeology.bsky.social) presents high-resolution stalagmite evidence from the Yucatán, revealing multi-year droughts during 800–1000 CE.

📅 15 Jan, 1-2PM 📍🔗 More info & register: tinyurl.com/ucl-drought

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #MayaHistory #ClimateChange #Archaeology

Earthworks-jobs.com : Research Assistant / PostDoc (f/m/d) in Earth Sciences / Terrestrial Paleoclimate - Frankfurt am Main,, Germany - Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung (SGN)

Research Assistant / PostDoc (f/m/d) in Earth Sciences / Terrestrial Paleoclimate - Frankfurt am Main, Germany www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/senc... - #jobs #research #postdoc #earthscience #palaeoclimate #geology #geoscience #climatescience

Session ITS2.11/CL0.1

ITS2.11/CL0.1 Past to future - towards fully paleo-informed future climate projections egu26.eu/session/57722 for #paleo constrains on #climate that can inform models, spatio-temporal, variability, state approaches to use #palaeoclimate information in #GCM
@EGU_Climate
#EGU26

Saw-tooth shaped Quaternary climate cycles – what can they tell us? Explore how saw-tooth Quaternary climate cycles reveal the nonlinear dynamics of Earth’s past, as Dr Diederik Liebrand joins us to unpack what these asymmetric patterns can tell us.

🌍 Final Palaeoclimate Seminar of the term!

Dr @palaeoclimate.science (@es-ucl.bsky.social) will reveal how saw-tooth Quaternary climate cycles unlock hidden Earth system dynamics. Join us tomorrow 1–2 pm in NWW G07 or online.

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #ClimateCycles #EarthScience

Anatomy of a cold stage: examining the structure of Pleistocene glacial cycles Discover how orbital rhythms and internal climate forces shaped Pleistocene cold stages, revealing the unique structure of glacial cycles and the challenges of defining the

❄️ Today – Palaeoclimate Seminar

Professor Philip Hughes discusses the unique structure of Pleistocene glacial cycles and the role of orbital and internal climate forces.

Join at 1pm. More information: tinyurl.com/ucl-anatomy

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #GlacialCycles @ucl.ac.uk

Earthworks-jobs.com : PhD student in Palaeoclimatology and Paleoceanography (m/w/d) - Frankfurt am Main,, Germany - Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

PhD student in Palaeoclimatology and Paleoceanography (m/w/d) - Frankfurt am Main, Germany - www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/fran... - #jobs #research #PhD #palaeoclimate #geoscience #environmentalscience #geochemistry #micropaleontology #palaeontology

Session ITS2.11/CL0.1

ITS2.11/CL0.1
Past to future - towards fully paleo-informed future climate projections www.egu26.eu/session/57722 for paleo constrains on climate that can inform models, spatio-temporal, variability, state approaches to incorporate #palaeoclimate information into GCMs

Europe could see up to 8 months of summer by 2100. A new study led by @celiavarves.bsky.social provides important insights for future climate projections. Read more at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#COP30 #ClimateChange #RHULGeogResearch #Palaeoclimate #ClimatePolicy

@royalholloway.bsky.social

20 years of Climate of the Past: A journey through two decades of paleoclimate research Twenty years ago, a small group of scientists set out to create a journal dedicated entirely to understanding Earth’s climate history. That journal, Climate of the Past (CP), was launched in 2005 as a...

Climate of the Past celebrates 20 years! 🎉

We sat with editor-in-chief Denis-Didier Rousseau to talk about the journal’s editorial work, its challenges, and how it supports the palaeoclimate and ECS community.

Read the interview:
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl...

#ClimateOfThePast #Palaeoclimate #EGU

The relative role of direct orbital forcing, CO2, and ice sheet feedbacks on Quaternary climate Explore how climate shaped coral reef formation and collapse using new biomarker temperature records, revealing complex links between temperature change, CO₂, ice sheets, and reef survival.

📣 Join the @ucl.ac.uk Palaeoclimate Seminar Series this Thursday, 1-2pm

Dr Charles Williams will explore how orbital changes, CO₂, and ice sheet feedbacks drove glacial–interglacial cycles.

Open to all – free to attend.

#UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate #ClimateScience #Quaternary

Postdoctoral in Palaeoclimate Research – ANU Australia | HigherJobz Apply for a postdoctoral position in palaeoclimate research at ANU, Australia. PhD in Earth Science required. Deadline: 16 November 2025.

#Postdoctoral Fellow – The Australian National University, Australia
🌿 #Palaeoclimate & #Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction

Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...

#Postdoc #EarthScience #AustraliaJobs #AcademicJobs #ClimateResearch #ResearchOpportunities

🌊 Palaeoclimate Seminar Alert!

This Thursday, Dr Benjamin Petrick will explore what causes coral reefs to collapse, using past temperature records to reveal the climate–reef connection.

Free & open to all

#UCLGeography #CoralReefs #ClimateScience #Palaeoclimate

Sea level during the last interglacial (Eemian) ~2 degree warming Global mean sea level was 6-9m higher tha. Today Peak high stand likely 8m higher

Coming back to this at #NCKF25 where my former boss (+IPCC lead author) Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen is looking at #Eemian #SeaLevelRise

Not quite as catastrophic as the MWP1a but still large. I wonder if this has been updated recently at all? […]

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Exciting new #PhD studentship available on flowering plant & insect #evolution in South America 🌺🐝 across the Cenozoic using biodiversity & #palaeoclimate modelling 🖥️

Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!

See below for more project & application info ⬇️

So we have a lot of fieldwork planned in Aotearoa NZ and Tasmania this coming winter & spring 🌏 as well as the 11th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology

Watch this space....

#SouthernDustscapes #Palaeoclimate #NewZealand #Tasmania #Geochronology

Changes in the South Pacific hydroclimate over the past two millennia (and beyond!) This talk examines long-term shifts in the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) using new proxy evidence and models, revealing how these changes have shaped regional climate and human settlement.

🌊 This week’s @ucl.ac.uk Geography Palaeoclimate Seminar dives into 2,000 years of South Pacific climate change with Dr Daniel Skinner (@bristoluni.bsky.social), exploring shifts in the SPCZ and their impact on rainfall and human settlement.
#Palaeoclimate #UCL

Habitat Specific Growth Rate Adaptation in Oysters During Early Bartonian: Effects of High Temperature and Low Seasonality in the Indian Palaeotropics High resolution multiproxy study on early Bartonian oyster shells from the palaeo-tropical Kutch Basin, India Clumped isotope thermometry reveals low seasonality at elevated temperatures Habitat...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Our paper in Paleoceanogr. Paleoclimatol. on 41Ma Eocene palaeoequatorial climate 🌍 reveals high temps (31–35 °C), low seasonality, and related oyster growth adaptation.
shorturl.at/wHU8a
#Palaeoclimate #Eocene #Geochemistry #oyster

New data collected from the seafloor of Ronne Entrance Discover new insights from the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s 2025 expedition to the Ronne Entrance, revealing how Antarctic seafloor data sheds light on the evolution of West Antarctic ice shelves.

❄️ Explore Antarctica’s hidden seafloor! Join Dr Aleksandr Montelli on 08 October for the first Palaeoclimate Seminar of 2025/26.

Discover new data on West Antarctic ice shelves from the 2025 Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition.

Free and open to all! #UCLGeography #Palaeoclimate @ucl.ac.uk

Figure showing sea level rising after the last glacial, a black curve tracing a z-shaped line with coloured blobs indicating the palaeoproxy datasets the line is based on.

This plot on wikipedia was made by @RARohde based on data published in late 90s and early 00s. Wondering if this has been updated or if there is new understanding on any of these palaeo records?

#Palaeoclimate #SeaLevelRise #IceSheets
Maybe @DrEvanGowan has thoughts? Anyone else?

A multi-model approach to the spatial and temporal characterization of the African Humid Period During the last c. 20,000 years, African climates experienced temperature shifts related to the last period of global deglaciation and moisture availa…

#Newpaper: the African Humid period through the lenses of pollen-based and mechanistic-based #palaeoclimate reconstructions!

Thanks @ecologypast.bsky.social, @markuslfischer.bsky.social, @paleoclimategirl.bsky.social and all coauthors!

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Very interesting #demographic model for historic #African populations reaching back 74,000 years -- that is before ancestors of everyone today began moving out of Africa. This factors in #malaria risk as contributing to movements and success of populations. Even that long ago, even with […]

📢 Good news! Our latest paper is out 🥳 "Late-Holocene climate changes in NW Iberia Peninsula reflect fluctuations in the relative dominance of Atlantic and Mediterranean climate zones". Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113034 #Palaeoclimate #Holocene @uxiafp.bsky.social @cicaudc.bsky.social

Join me for my oral presentation at EGU'25 on April 29th at 16:30 in Room 2.93!

#Egu25 #palaeoclimate #Bartonian #MECO #Eocene #sclerochronology #globalwarming #CO2 #tropical #india #kutch #oyster

Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia.

Always a good day when friends have a good day! Out today in NATURE (!) from Monika Markowska - 8 million year record of recurrent humid phases in Arabia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08859-6

#Quaternary #QuaternaryScience #speleothem #speleothems #palaeoclimate