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Geography, Physical
Fangyi Tan, Nicole S. Khan, Tanghua Li, Aron J. Meltzner, Jedrzej Majewski, Nicholas Chan, Peter M. Chutcharavan, Niamh Cahill, Matteo Vacchi, Dongju Peng, Benjamin P. Horton
Summary: This study establishes a standardized database of Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) data from far-field islands in the mid-Pacific. The database can be used to validate the ice-melting histories of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models. Lack of quality control in the RSL reconstruction hinders understanding of regional variability and ice-equivalent sea-level changes.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
A. Grau Galofre, K. X. Whipple, P. R. Christensen, S. J. Conway
Summary: Comparing the theoretical behavior of ice sheets on Mars and Earth, we find that the lower gravity on Mars favors the formation of efficient subglacial drainage, explaining the apparent lack of large-scale glacial fingerprints on the Martian surface such as drumlins or lineations.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Review
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Susumu Tanabe, Taku Komatsubara, Kazuaki Hori
Summary: This study shows that riverbed sediments in Japanese rivers undergo downstream fining, with grain size and thickness decreasing towards the river mouth. The maximum grain size and thickness are linearly correlated with maximum water discharge, distance from the edge of the continental shelf, and the river gradient during the last glacial period. These findings suggest that the production of coarse materials was not solely due to periglacial processes, but occurred in a limited area of the Japanese Islands during the last glacial period.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Diego Balseiro, Matthew G. Powell
Summary: Paleontologists combined fossil occurrences of North American marine invertebrates with lithologic data to identify sampling patterns in carbonate and siliciclastic rocks. Results indicate that the proportion of sampled fossiliferous rocks was stable during the Paleozoic and varied during the post-Paleozoic. Fossiliferous carbonate rocks were proportionally more sampled than siliciclastic rocks, possibly due to a higher rate of taxonomic descriptions from carbonate rocks.
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Geography, Physical
Jennifer S. Walker, Tanghua Li, Timothy A. Shaw, Niamh Cahill, Donald C. Barber, Matthew J. Brain, Robert E. Kopp, Adam D. Switzer, Benjamin P. Horton
Summary: Stratigraphic data from salt marshes accurately reconstruct Holocene relative sea-level change and provide necessary constraints to glacial isostatic adjustment models. A new record of Mid- to Late-Holocene sea-level rise is presented using basal peats from a salt marsh in New Jersey. The sea-level index points range from 1211 to 4414 years BP, and the average rate of sea-level rise from 5000 years BP to present is 1.7 +/- 0.1 mm/year. Comparisons with GIA models show the models tend to overestimate sea-level rise in the past 5000 years.
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Immunology
Caroline Millins, Walter Leo, Isabell MacInnes, Johanne Ferguson, Graham Charlesworth, Donald Nayar, Reece Davison, Jonathan Yardley, Elizabeth Kilbride, Selene Huntley, Lucy Gilbert, Mafalda Viana, Paul Johnson, Roman Biek
Summary: A study in the Western Isles of Scotland found that residents of treeless islands with higher Lyme disease incidence were more likely to be infected by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected ticks. Some residents suggested changing deer distribution as a potential driver of Lyme disease emergence. This highlights the importance of an integrated approach in understanding factors contributing to Lyme disease.
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Kacper Kreczmer, Maciej Dabski, Anna Zmarz
Summary: The study aims to investigate the development of glaciers and periglacial landforms in the western Antarctic region, utilizing tools such as UAV and Google Earth to obtain detailed geomorphological maps. The results show that different periods of glacier activity have created varying morphological features on the landscape.
FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Aleksandra Bartosiewicz, Adam Kucharski
Summary: Container ports play a crucial role in global supply chains, but face increasing pressure to operate sustainably and contribute to socio-economic development. This research introduces a Triple Bottom Line metric with 25 indicators to assess the sustainability of the largest container ports in the Baltic Sea Region. Results show that Nordic ports and the Port of Tallinn are leaders in implementing sustainable initiatives, while ports in countries with weak sustainability principles tend to do so only if necessary and economically feasible.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
K. M. Simon, R. E. M. Riva, T. Broerse
Summary: This study examines the impact of transient mantle creep on the prediction of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) signals. The results show that the models are most sensitive to transient mantle deformation in regions near and peripheral to former ice sheets. In particular, the Burgers models better reproduce the rapid postglacial sea-level fall along the North American west coast. However, the far-field relative sea-level change predictions show weak sensitivity to the inclusion of transient deformation.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Aleksandr Montelli, Marina Solovyeva, Grigorii Akhmanov, Adriano Mazzini, Anna Piatilova, Elena Bakay, Julian A. Dowdeswell
Summary: New geophysical data from eastern Storbanken in the central Barents Sea reveals the flow of a marine-based ice dome during the final stages of ice-sheet decay. Previous models suggesting a northward-migrating ice dome or crest extending from Svalbard to Franz-Josef Land are contradicted by our findings. The results provide valuable insights into the late-stage decay of marine ice domes and can be used to improve numerical models simulating the behavior of marine-based ice sheets in a warming environment.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Review
Geography, Physical
Bernard Wood, Richard J. Smith
Summary: This article reviews the incompleteness of the hominin fossil record and the potential bias in its interpretations, suggesting that it should be seen as an incomplete record of human evolutionary history rather than an accurate and comprehensive description.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Elisa T. Sena, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, Alexander B. Kostinski
Summary: This study combines record-breaking statistics with a geographic mode of exploration to introduce a record-breaking map. It shows that high sea surface temperature (SST) records have been broken more frequently than expected, indicating warming over most oceans. The study also evaluates a global climate model (GCM) and finds negligible contribution of internal variability to the observed record-breaking trends. Future forecasts suggest even more frequent high temperature records and less frequent low temperature records.
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Yinzhu Jin, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Dave Merola, Kueiyu Joshua Lin
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether a previously described EHR-continuity prediction model can reduce the misclassification of four commonly used risk scores in pharmacoepidemiology. The findings suggest that using this prediction model can significantly reduce misclassification in EHR-based comparative studies.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Francesco Giusti, Carmen Martos, Raquel Negrao Carvalho, Liesbet Van Eycken, Otto Visser, Manola Bettio
Summary: Population-based Cancer Registries (PBCRs) play a crucial role in collecting high-quality data for monitoring cancer burden, planning cancer control activities, and conducting research. This article evaluates the quality of PBCRs data collected in a specific data call in 2015.
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Elisa Barreto, Thiago F. Rangel, Loic Pellissier, Catherine H. Graham
Summary: Island biodiversity is influenced by physical characteristics, with area positively affecting mammal diversity and isolation associated with lower richness but greater endemism. Flight capacity also plays a role in determining the relative importance of past versus current isolation, with bats responding more strongly to current isolation and non-volant mammals to past isolation. Biodiversity relationships with environmental factors are idiosyncratic, with a tendency for greater effects sizes with endemism than richness.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Alasdair Skelton, Linda Lowhagen, Ian J. Fairchild, Adrian Boyce, Carl-Magnus Morth, Heike Siegmund, David Webster, Anthony M. Spencer
PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Fang Bian, Katie Coleborn, Ingrid Flemons, Andy Baker, Pauline C. Treble, Catherine E. Hughes, Andrew Baker, Martin S. Andersen, Mark G. Tozer, Wuhui Duan, Christopher J. Fogwill, Ian J. Fairchild
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Article
Geography, Physical
Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Martin J. Head, Clement Poirier, Colin P. Summerhayes, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jacques Grinevald, Will Steffen, Jaia Syvitski, Peter Haff, John R. McNeill, Michael Wagreich, Ian J. Fairchild, Daniel D. Richter, Davor Vidas, Mark Williams, Anthony D. Barnosky, Alejandro Cearreta
PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
T. M. Vandyk, G. Wu, B. J. Davies, Y. Xiao, M. Li, G. A. Shields, D. P. Le Heron
PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Geography, Physical
Lisa M. Baldini, James U. L. Baldini, Frank McDermott, Pablo Arias, Marian Cueto, Ian J. Fairchild, Dirk L. Hoffmann, David P. Mattey, Wolfgang Mueler, Dan Constantin Nita, Roberto Ontanon, Cristina Garcia-Monco, David A. Richards
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Dominguez-Villar, Juan A. Vazquez-Navarro, Kristina Krklec, Sonja Lojen, Jose A. Lopez-Saez, Miriam Dorado-Valino, Ian J. Fairchild
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Erle C. Ellis, Martin J. Head, Davor Vidas, Will Steffen, Julia Adeney Thomas, Eva Horn, Colin P. Summerhayes, Reinhold Leinfelder, J. R. McNeill, Agnieszka Galuszka, Mark Williams, Anthony D. Barnosky, Daniel de B. Richter, Philip L. Gibbard, Jaia Syvitski, Catherine Jeandel, Alejandro Cearreta, Andrew B. Cundy, Ian J. Fairchild, Neil L. Rose, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, William Shotyk, Simon Turner, Michael Wagreich, Jens Zinke
Summary: The term Anthropocene emerged in the early 2000s to signify the end of the Holocene Epoch due to human activities, initially linked to the Industrial Revolution and later associated with global industrialization and globalization. While the concept is being evaluated for inclusion in the Geological Time Scale, it has also been applied in various scholarly fields with broader interpretations extending beyond the mid-twentieth century.
Article
Geology
Daniel P. Le Heron, Christoph Kettler, Neil P. Griffis, Pierre Dietrich, Isabel P. Montanez, David A. Osleger, Axel Hofmann, Guilhem Douillet, Roland Mundil
Summary: This paper investigates the nature of contact between glacial rocks and underlying lithologies in different regions of southern Africa, revealing the processes and characteristics of ice mass expansion in different geographical areas. The study provides important insights into the geomorphological evolution during the glacial age.
DEPOSITIONAL RECORD
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Daniel Paul Le Heron, Christoph Kettler, Bethan J. Davies, Lars Scharfenberg, Lukas Eder, Michael Ketterman, Gerit E. U. Griesmeier, Rhiannon Quinn, Xiaoshuai Chen, Thomas Vandyk, Marie E. Busfield
Summary: The Gepatsch Glacier in Tirol, Austria has undergone significant changes in its forefield over a 12-month period, with alterations in both sediment and landforms. This study quantifies the rates of erosion and deposition in a complex proglacial setting, providing valuable insights into glaciation processes.
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
David Dominguez-Villar, Kristina Krklec, Ian Boomer, Ian J. Fairchild
Summary: The isotope signature of cave waters was studied using the ISODRIP model based on data from Eagle Cave in central Spain. The results indicate that various factors, including flow routes, influence the isotopic signals of cave waters significantly.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Geology
Ian J. Fairchild, Huiming Bao, Richard J. Windmill, Ian Boomer
Summary: Two cap carbonates overlying Cryogenian panglacial deposits are found in North-East Svalbard, providing insights into the sedimentation process and the O-17 depletion event as well as the presence of ultra-high pCO(2) during the deposition of the cap carbonates.
DEPOSITIONAL RECORD
(2023)
Article
Geology
Daniel Paul Le Heron, Christoph Kettler, Arian Wawra, Martin Schoepfer, Bernhard Grasemann
Summary: The Pasterze, Austria's largest glacier, is rapidly melting and retreating. Recent sedimentary deposits, which have not been studied before, provide important insights into the distribution of facies expected from a dying valley glacier.
DEPOSITIONAL RECORD
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Colin N. Waters, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Simon D. Turner, Anthony D. Barnosky, Martin J. Head, Scott L. Wing, Michael Wagreich, Will Steffen, Colin P. Summerhayes, Andrew B. Cundy, Jens Zinke, Barbara Fialkiewicz-Koziel, Reinhold Leinfelder, Peter K. Haff, J. R. McNeill, Neil L. Rose, Irka Hajdas, Francine M. G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Agnieszka Galuszka, Jaia Syvitski, Yongming Han, Zhisheng An, Ian J. Fairchild, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Catherine Jeandel
Summary: Event stratigraphy is used to identify the Anthropocene by categorizing distinct events, with the Great Acceleration Event Array (GAEA) being the most notable. The GAEA represents a significant transition in the Earth System, indicating the base of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Martin J. Head, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Simon D. Turner, Mark Williams, Anthony D. Barnosky, Will Steffen, Michael Wagreich, Peter K. Haff, Jaia Syvitski, Reinhold Leinfelder, Francine M. G. Mccarthy, Neil L. Rose, Scott L. Wing, Zhisheng An, Alejandro Cearreta, Andrew B. Cundy, Ian J. Fairchild, Yongming Han, Juliana A. Ivar Do Sul, Catherine Jeandel, J. R. Mcneill, Colin P. Summerhayes
Summary: The extensive mid-20th century stratigraphic event signals provide precise evidence for recognizing the Anthropocene as a separate epoch/series within the Geological Time Scale. The alternative geological event approach highlights the interdisciplinary nature and long-term impacts of historical and socio-cultural processes, suggesting a complementary perspective to the chronostratigraphic delineation of the Anthropocene. It is recommended to separate epochs, events, and episodes for a clearer understanding.
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Andrea Borsato, Ian J. Fairchild, Silvia Frisia, Peter M. Wynn, Jens Fohlmeister
Summary: Annually laminated stalagmites ER77 and ER78 from Grotta di Ernesto provide an accurate annual record of environmental and anthropogenic signals for the last similar to 200 years. The stalagmites show two major transitions, one coinciding with the end of the Little Ice Age around 1840 CE, and the other occurring around 1960 CE and related to human-induced environmental changes.
ANTHROPOCENE REVIEW
(2023)