Sentences with phrase «in paleoenvironmental»

Controlled breaking of mummified wood for use in paleoenvironmental analysis.

Analysis of microfauna from paleontological and archaeological sites of the late Pleistocene and Holocene of North America has aided in paleoenvironmental reconstructions.

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Dr. C. Mark Eakin is Coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch, an effort focused on the monitoring of coral reef ecosystems through satellite, in situ, and paleoenvironmental observations.

The development of active freshwater systems during these periods corresponds with monsoon intensity increases during insolation maxima, suggesting that humid periods in Arabia were not confined to eccentricity - paced deglaciations, and providing paleoenvironmental support for multiple windows of opportunity for dispersal out of Africa during the late Pleistocene.

The Historical Legacies group is a multi-institutional partnership that uses paleoenvironmental information preserved in tree rings, lake - sediments, archeological and other records to reconstruct climate, vegetation and disturbance history.

Our current research in this area focuses on understanding the paleoenvironmental implications of a radical change in sedimentary iron biogeochemistry in the mid-Atlantic U.S. during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a severe global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago.

Ongoing projects examine the paleoenvironmental context for human evolution and cultural development, reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes, dating geological formations, and attempting to understand the role that climate change had in producing new species and stone - tool cultures.

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

In Antarctic Peninsula climate variability: historical and paleoenvironmental perspectives, Antarctic Research Series 79: 79 - 92.

Late Holocene environmental reconstructions and their implications on flood events, typhoon, and agricultural activities in NE Taiwan We reconstructed paleoenvironmental changes from a sediment archive of a lake in the floodplain of the Ilan Plain of NE Taiwan on multi-decadal resolution for the last ca. 1900 years.