Climate and Human History of the North Atlantic: Perspectives from Lipid Biomarkers in Lake Sediments ...
As our global community grapples with the ongoing challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, records of past climate changes provide important benchmarks for climate models and insights into the interactions between climate changes, human societies, and the landscape. In this dissertati...
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Columbia University
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-zsaj-0s02 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-zsaj-0s02 |
| Summary: | As our global community grapples with the ongoing challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, records of past climate changes provide important benchmarks for climate models and insights into the interactions between climate changes, human societies, and the landscape. In this dissertation, I reconstruct past changes in climate and redefine the human settlement history of the North Atlantic region. Understanding the human and climate history of the North Atlantic is particularly important because the region is especially sensitive to changes in climate, and climate and oceanographic changes in the region have global ramifications. I focus on the Faroe Islands and Iceland. These islands are close to oceanographic and atmospheric fronts and are sensitive to small changes in the climate system. Furthermore, the Faroes and Iceland were not settled by humans until the the first millennium CE, and as such, provide climate records that are unaltered by human land use activities for most of the Holocene, ... |
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