Palaeoclimatology in Russia
UCL Geography’s CARBO-North project reconstructed past climate and ecosystem changes in northern Russia to assess carbon budgets and inform future climate and policy responses.
Activities address rates of ecosystem change, effects on the carbon budget (radiative forcing), and global climate and policy implications. For this purpose the project reconstructs past changes in climate and environment, monitors and interprets present-day processes, and models future ‘transient’ and ‘equilibrium’ ecosystem responses for the next 100 years and beyond.
Publications
- Self, A.E., Brooks, S.J., Birks, H.J.B., Nazarova, L., Porinchu, D., Odland, A., Yang, H., Jones, V.J. (2011) The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30: 1122-1141.
- Salonen, J.S., Seppa, H., Valiranta, M., Jones, V.J., self, A., Heikkila, M., Kultti, S., Yang, H. (2011) The Holocene thermal maximum and late-Holocene cooling in the tundra of NE European Russia. Quaternary Research 75: 501-511.
Contact Us
Facility Manager
Dr Handong Yang
Telephone: 020 7679 0544
handong.yang@ucl.ac.uk
Coordinator
Professor Neil Rose
Telephone: 020 7679 0543
n.rose@ucl.ac.uk
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