Ringing in the New Year

Or should that be New Semester?

We are gearing up for a new semester in the lab. This year Gil and I will be joined by not one, not two but three other graduate students!

Becky is an up and coming masters student that worked in the lab during her undergraduate degree. We want to congratulate Becky on all the hard work she did in undergrad and making it to the next level of awesome! Becky will be continuing to work on Mesodesma from Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.
Jacob will be continuing on in the lab analyzing an archeological site in Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.
Gilman is working on a new project studying Siderastrea from Haiti while taking over my old post as Master of the Lab.
I am staying busy milling samples from Montastraea colonies recovered from offshore Veracruz, Mexico.
Our last incoming graduate student to the lab will be announced with flourish at a later date :) It will at least make me update this more often.

Our many projects are coming along nicely in the lab. Including an ancient oyster study being conducted by Andrew Trahan, an undergraduate working in the lab. Drew presented his work at the LSU Undergraduate Research Conference in the fall. We have a Donax study that is being worked on by Jacob as well as Alex, another undergraduate working in the lab. We have more coral projects than we have time to list that are being worked on. Alison Bojarski, an undergraduate senior, will be presenting at her first conference when we travel to Honolulu, HI in February to present at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Joint Meeting. We want to congratulate her on having her abstract accepted to this conference!

We held SWIRLS sessions at AGU 2013 this past December. We had a wonderful turn out for all of our sessions and want to thank everyone that submitted an abstract and attended our sessions throughout the meeting. We enjoyed catching up with past colleagues and meeting new ones.

Happy researching until next update!

-Robin

T Minus One Week!

...Until abstracts are due that is. Are you an early bird submitter or a last minute submitter like most of us? If you have not already submitted your abstract to this years AGU Fall 2013 Meeting please check out our session PP005: Climate Variability from multiple reconstructions.

We hope to see all of you at AGU!

Calling all Abstracts!

It's that time of year again! AGU 2013 will be held December 9-13 in San Francisco, CA. Today is the opening day of abstract submissions for the AGU 2013 Fall Meeting. Deadlines for abstract submissions is August 6 at 11:59 EDT.

Do you have an awesome multiproxy climate reconstruction you are itching to present? Yes you say? Then come submit your abstract to our session! If you have any questions about the session please feel free to comment or contact us! We hope to see you in San Fran!

PP005. Climate variability from multiple reconstructions

SWIRLs:
  Characterizing Uncertainty

Conveners:
Kristine DeLong 
Louisiana State University 
kdelong@lsu.edu

Jason Polk 
Western Kentucky University 
jason.polk@wku.edu

Each paleoclimate proxy has its own unique strengths and interpretation limits. Combining records with a common climate forcing allows researchers to extract the common climatic signal while reducing reconstruction uncertainty. Multiproxy records can be the same archive with different variables measured (e.g., δ18O and Sr/Ca), unique archives with the same variable (e.g., coral δ18O and speleothem δ18O), or any combination therein. Combining records with differing resolution is challenging yet may reveal unique results not possible with a single archive. We encourage abstracts involving multiproxy records that explore climate variability or abstracts that assess methods and uncertainty in producing reconstructions based on multiple records.

Session information: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search/sessions/pp005-climate-variability-from-multiple-reconstructions/
Submit your abstracts today! http://agu-fm13.abstractcentral.com/abstract

Here Ye, Here Ye!

To our fine colleagues,
If you have tallied up records with decadal to sub-annual resolution or are exploring methods for reconstructing climate at such high resolutions, we invite you to consider our session for this Fall's AGU in San Francisco!

PP005: Climate Variability From High-Resolution Proxies

K. Halimeda Kilbourne
Univ. of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Robin M Cobb
Louisiana State University

Kristine L DeLong
Louisiana State University

Paleoclimate records with decadal–subannual resolution provide a unique perspective on past climate on centennial–seasonal timescales. High-resolution paleoclimate data often overlap and extend the instrumental record, providing the increased observation period needed to investigate aspects of climate variability such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. However, high-resolution records may include environmental noise that combines with analytical error to confound interpretations of relatively small signals. We encourage abstracts involving high-resolution records, either exploring paleoclimate, or exploring methods for improving these records.

Session details are at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/session-search/single/climate-variability-from-high-resolution-proxies/
Submit your abstract today! http://agu-fm12.abstractcentral.com/

-Hali, Kristine, and Robin