Two new papers published in the journal Paleoceanography

Assistant professor Diane Thompson has recently published 2 papers in the journal Paleoceanography.

“Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years as recorded in Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galápagos” highlights results of long-term monitoring of Bainbridge Crater Lake (since 2009). Sediments from this lake provide a record of both El Niño and La Niña events over the past 6000 years.

 
“Spatiotemporal variability in the δ¹⁸O-salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean” demonstrates that the relationship between seawater δ¹⁸O and salinity varies considerably across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, with profound implications for reconstructing climate from marine carbonate archives.