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Climate History Bulletin
January 2023
PhD and Postdoc positions on Flood Resilience studies in the ERC funded project STORIES at LMU Munich
The Chair in Human Geography at the Department of Geography offers a PhD student position and a postdoctoral researcher position to support the research activities in the context of the European Research Council (ERC) project STORIES (ID: 101040939), led by Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang. This is a 5-year research project funded with 1.5M€ that will investigate the dynamic interactions of flood impacts and social resilience in the Mekong River basin. Based on the project, a small team will be established to do pioneering and impactful science on climate resilience.
More about the project: https://www.geographie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/forschung/projekte/index.php?projekt_id=342
→ A Postdoc position up to 3 years on methodological development for modeling flood resilience mainly using Agent-Based Model and/or Social Network Analysis.
Application deadline on January 08, 2023.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/1b2f6b6f4b2d426735880cac3c6678040e00d3ad0?ref=homepage
→ A PhD student position focusing on case studies of flood resilience at the Mekong upstream areas in Southwest China (The Tea-Horse Road region in Sichuan and Yunnan Province).
Application deadline on January 08, 2023.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d6daf26e9d46fd1d0ba756a7260918919ffc6b200?ref=homepage
→ A PhD student position in historical geography, to investigate past social resilience to flood hazards and its changes over a long historical period by collecting and analyzing various documented archives.
This position targets Chinese applicants. Application deadline on January 15, 2023.
Next year at the EGU conference, there will be a session CL1.2.4 "Studying the climate of the last two millennia", co-sponsored by PAGES 2k: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/45524
This session aims to place recently observed climate change in a long-term perspective by highlighting the importance of paleoclimate research spanning the past 2000 years. We invite presentations that provide insights into past climate variability, over decadal to millennial timescales, from different paleoclimate archives (ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial records, historical archives and more). In particular, we are focussing on quantitative temperature and hydroclimate reconstructions, and reconstructions of large-scale modes of climate variability from local to global scales. This session also encourages presentations on the attribution of past climate variability to external drivers or internal climate processes, data syntheses, model-data comparison exercises, proxy system modelling, and novel approaches to producing multi-proxy climate field reconstructions such as data assimilation or machine learning.
Johnston, Sky Michael. “Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–1590.” Environmental History 27, no. 4 (October 2022): 722–46. https://doi.org/10.1086/721341.
White, Sam, Qing Pei, Katrin Kleemann, Lukáš Dolák, Heli Huhtamaa, and Chantal Camenisch. “New Perspectives on Historical Climatology.” WIREs Climate Change (7 Dec 2022): e808. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.808.
Yan, Xinwei, Jianbao Liu, Kathleen M. Ruhland, Haoran Dong, Jinna He, and John P. Smol. “Human Deforestation Outweighed Climate as Factors Affecting Yellow River Floods and Erosion on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the 10th Century.” Quaternary Science Reviews 295 (2022): 107796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107796.
Paleoclimatology (high-resolution studies relevant to human history)
Buntgen, Ulf, Alma Piermattei, Alan Crivellaro, Frederick Reinig, Paul J. Krusic, Mirek Trnka, Max Torbenson, and Jan Esper. “Common Era Treeline Fluctuations and Their Implications for Climate Reconstructions.” Global and Planetary Change 219 (December 2022): 103979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103979.
Khandu, Yeshey, Anan Polthanee, and Supat Isarangkool Na Ayutthaya. “Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Mean Annual Temperatures over Treeline Regions of Northern Bhutan Himalayas.” Forests 13, no. 11 (November 2022): 1794. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111794.
Nagavciuc, Viorica, Monica Ionita, Zoltan Kern, Danny McCarroll, and Ionel Popa. “A Similar to 700 Years Perspective on the 21st Century Drying in the Eastern Part of Europe Based on Delta O-18 in Tree Ring Cellulose.” Communications Earth & Environment 3, no. 1 (2022): 277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00605-4.
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