UNDERSTANDING THE PAST TO PREDICT AND MANAGE THE CLIMATE OF THE FUTURE

Cave opening and fossil accumulation in Naracoorte, Australia, through charcoal and pollen in dated speleothems

Rieneke Weij, Jon D Woodhead, JM Kale Sniderman, John C Hellstrom, Elizabeth Reed, Steven Bourne, Russell N Drysdale, Timothy J Pollard

2022-09-26

Caves are important fossil repositories which provide records extending back over million-year timescales. While the physical proc..

Preparing for a post-net-zero world

Andrew D King, Jacqueline Peel, Tilo Ziehn, Kathryn J Bowen, Harry LO McClelland, Celia McMichael, Zebedee RJ Nicholls, JM Kale Sniderman

2022-08-11

Timescales of speleogenesis in an evolving syngenetic karst: The Tamala Limestone,Western Australia

J Woodhead, K Sniderman, J Hellstrom, R Weij, C MacGregor, B Dickson, R Drysdale, M Delane, D Henke, L Bastian, A Baynes

2022-02-15

The Tamala Limestone, a vast Quaternary carbonate sequence exposed on the coast of Western Australia, forms one of the most geogra..

Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels

Andrew D King, JM Kale Sniderman, Andrea J Dittus, Josephine R Brown, Ed Hawkins, Tilo Ziehn

2021-11-25

Transient and Quasi-Equilibrium Climate States at 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C Global Warming

Andrew D King, Alexander R Borowiak, Josephine R Brown, David J Frame, Luke J Harrington, Seung-Ki Min, Angeline Pendergrass, Maria Rugenstein, JM Kale Sniderman, Daithi A Stone

2021-11-01

Recent climate change is characterized by rapid global warming, but the goal of the Paris Agreement is to achieve a stable climate..

Transient and quasi-equilibrium climate states at 1.5{degree sign}C and 2{degree sign}C global warming

Andrew David King, Alexander R Borowiak, Josephine R Brown, David John Frame, Luke James Harrington, Seung-Ki Min, Angeline Greene Pendergrass, Maria AA Rugenstein, Kale Sniderman, Dáithí A Stone

2021-04-13

Carbon isotope systematics of leaf wax n-alkanes in a temperate lacustrine depositional environment

Jake W Andrae, Francesca A McInerney, JM Kale Sniderman

2020-12-01

The carbon isotope ratio (δ13C) of plant-derived organic carbon preserved in geological archives can be a valuable proxy for the r..

An exploration of the utility of speleothem age distributions for palaeoclimate assessment

Rieneke Weij, Jon Woodhead, John Hellstrom, Kale Sniderman

2020-10-01

Age distributions of speleothem growth frequency are often employed as proxies for past climate variation. However, their interpre..

Using speleothems to constrain late Cenozoic uplift rates in karst terranes

John Engel, Jon Woodhead, John Hellstrom, Susan White, Nicholas White, Helen Green

2020-08-01

The utility of speleothems as environmental and geological archives has greatly expanded with recent advances in geochronology. He..

Robust isochron calculation

R Powell, ECR Green, E Marillo Sialer, J Woodhead

2020-07-02

The standard classical statistics approach to isochron calculation assumes that the distribution of uncertainties on the data aris..

A single-column extraction chemistry for isotope dilution U-Pb dating of carbonate

John Engel, Roland Maas, Jon Woodhead, Jan Tympel, Alan Greig

2020-01-05

U-Pb dating can provide age constraints on carbonate minerals from a wide range of geological settings. A major practical limitati..

Partitioning of Mg, Sr, Ba and U into a subaqueous calcite speleothem

Russell N Drysdale, Giovanni Zanchetta, Ilaria Baneschi, Massimo Guidi, Ilaria Isola, Isabelle Couchoud, Leonardo Piccini, Alan Greig, Henri Wong, Jon D Woodhead, Eleonora Regattieri, Ellen Corrick, Bence Paul, Christoph Spotl, Eleonor Denson, Jay Gordon, Stephane Jaillet, Florian Dux, John C Hellstrom

2019-11-01

The trace-element geochemistry of speleothems is becoming increasingly used for reconstructing palaeoclimate, with a particular em..

Corrections for initial isotopic disequilibrium in the speleothem U-Pb dating method

J Engel, J Woodhead, J Hellstrom, R Maas, R Drysdale, D Ford

2019-10-01

The accuracy of ages produced by the U-Pb speleothem chronometer is influenced by initial disequilibrium effects resulting from we..

Exploring the advantages and limitations of in situ U-Pb carbonate geochronology using speleothems

J Woodhead, J Petrus

2019-07-18

The recent development of methods for in situ U-Pb age determination in carbonates has found widespread application, but the benef..

Southern Hemisphere subtropical drying as a transient response to warming

JM Kale Sniderman, Josephine R Brown, Jon D Woodhead, Andrew D King, Nathan P Gillett, Katarzyna B Tokarska, Katja Lorbacher, John Hellstrom, Russell N Drysdale, Malte Meinshausen

2019-03-01

Climate projections1–3 and observations over recent decades4,5 indicate that precipitation in subtropical latitudes declines in re..

Vegetation and Climate Change in Southwestern Australia During the Last Glacial Maximum

JMK Sniderman, J Hellstrom, JD Woodhead, RN Drysdale, P Bajo, M Archer, L Hatcher

2019-02-16

The nature and duration of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Australia are poorly understood, with little regional agreement on th..

The antiquity of Nullarbor speleothems and implications for karst palaeoclimate archives

Jon D Woodhead, JM Kale Sniderman, John Hellstrom, Russell N Drysdale, Roland Maas, Nicholas White, Susan White, Paul Devine

2019-01-24

Speleothems represent important archives of terrestrial climate variation that host a variety of proxy signals and are also highly..