Applications

Application for Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental History and Public Policy. The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, USA [HMEI], is accepting applicants to be appointed within HMEI and with a formal affiliation with the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany [MPI GEA], and within the framework of the CCHRI/EnvHist4P project. The successful applicant will sign a one-year postdoc contract (100% E13 position) at the MPI GEA for one year and one-year postdoctoral research position (100% duty time) at Princeton for the other year.

For more information, see: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=30022

Upcoming Events

The CLIMCULT project at the University of Oslo and the PAGES-CRIAS working group will hold a workshop “Climate and Conflict Revisited: Perspectives from Past and Present” in Oslo on 11-12 May 2023. The program and conference registration (on-line and remote) are available at: https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/research/projects/climatecultures/events/workshop-climate---conflict-revisited.-perspective.html

The 9th Edition of the International Conference on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean (MetMed 2023) will take place in person in Genoa (Italy) on May 22-24, 2023. MetMed 2023 is jointly organized by the University of Genoa, the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (AISAM), the Catalan Association of Meteorology (ACAM), with the support of Tethys, the Journal of Mediterranean Meteorology & Climatology, and the University of the Balearic Islands. https://www.cmcc.it/article/9th-international-conference-on-meteorology-and-climatology-of-the-mediterranean

The full program and registration of the European Society for Environmental History conference in Bern, Switzerland 22-26 August 2023 are online at: https://www.eseh2023.unibe.ch/

New Publications

Historical Climatology / Climate, Science, and Culture

Grose, Michael R., Ghyslaine Boschat, Blair Trewin, Vanessa Round, Linden Ashcroft, Andrew D. King, Sugata Narsey, et al. “Australian Climate Warming: Observed Change from 1850 and Global Temperature Targets.” Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 73, no. 1 (2023): 30–43. https://doi.org/10.1071/ES22018.

Guillet, Sébastien, Christophe Corona, Clive Oppenheimer, Franck Lavigne, Myriam Khodri, Francis Ludlow, Michael Sigl, et al. “Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism.” Nature 616, no. 7955 (April 2023): 90–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05751-z.

Wilson, Nick, Veronika Valler, Michael Cassidy, Matt Boyd, Lara Mani, and Stefan Bronnimann. “Impact of the Tambora Volcanic Eruption of 1815 on Islands and Relevance to Future Sunlight-Blocking Catastrophes.” Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (2023): 3649. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30729-2.

Yu, Shi-Yong, Wen-Jia Li, Liang Zhou, Xuefeng Yu, Qiang Zhang, and Zhixiong Shen. “Human Disturbances Dominated the Unprecedentedly High Frequency of Yellow River Flood over the Last Millennium.” Science Advances 9, no. 8 (2023): eadf8576. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf8576.

Archaeology

Bhattacharya, Tripti, Samantha Krause, Dan Penny, and David Wahl. “Drought and Water Management in Ancient Maya Society.” Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 47, no. 2 (April 1, 2023): 189–204. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333221129784.

Borreggine, Marisa, Konstantin Latychev, Sophie Coulson, Evelyn M. Powell, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Glenn A. Milne, and Richard B. Alley. “Sea-Level Rise in Southwest Greenland as a Contributor to Viking Abandonment.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 17 (2023): e2209615120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209615120.

Howard, Ian M., David W. Stahle, Michael D. Dettinger, Cody Poulsen, F. Martin Ralph, Max C. A. Torbenson, and Alexander Gershunov. “A 440-Year Reconstruction of Heavy Precipitation in California from Blue Oak Tree Rings.” Journal of Hydrometeorology 24, no. 3 (2023): 463–77. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0062.1.

Jimenez, Joan Campmany, Iza Romanowska, Rubina Raja, and Eivind H. Seland. “Food Security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in Light of Paleoclimatological Evidence and Its Historical Implications.” Plos One 17, no. 9 (2022): e0273241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273241.

Torrescano-Valle, Nuria, William J. Folan, Alfredo Yanez-Montalvo, and Joel D. Gunn. “Climate and Agricultural History from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya Lowlands of Southern Mexico.” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, March 30, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00914-4.

Paleoclimatology (high-resolution studies relevant to human history)

Gaire, Narayan P., Santosh K. Shah, Bimal Sharma, Nivedita Mehrotra, Uday Kunwar Thapa, Ze-Xin Fan, Prakash Chandra Aryal, and Dinesh Raj Bhuju. “Spatial Minimum Temperature Reconstruction over the Last Three Centuries for Eastern Nepal Himalaya Based on Tree Rings of Larix Griffithiana.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology 152, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 895–910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04432-1.

Giesche, Alena, David A. Hodell, Cameron A. Petrie, Gerald H. Haug, Jess F. Adkins, Birgit Plessen, Norbert Marwan, et al. “Recurring Summer and Winter Droughts from 4.2-3.97 Thousand Years Ago in North India.” Communications Earth & Environment 4, no. 1 (April 4, 2023): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00763-z.

Wang, Hongxiu, Han Li, Wei Xiang, Yanwei Lu, Huanhuan Wang, Wei Hu, Bingcheng Si, Scott Jasechko, and Jeffrey J. McDonnell. “A 1000-Year Record of Temperature From Isotopic Analysis of the Deep Critical Zone in Central China.” Geophysical Research Letters 50, no. 5 (2023): e2022GL101054. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101054.

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