Estimates of ground surface temperature changes and continental energy storage from geothermal data have become well-accepted indicators of climatic changes. These estimates are independent contributions to the ensemble of paleoclimatic reconstructions and have been used for the validation of general circulation models, and as a component of the energy budget accounting of the global climate sy...

In the last decades, the 18O/16O signature of meteoric water became a key tracer intensively used both in hydrology and in paleoclimatology, based primarily on the correlation of the 18O/16O ratio in precipitation with temperature. This correlation with temperature is generally well understood as a result of Rayleigh processes of atmospheric vapour during the formation of precipitation. The res...

The natural variation in stable water isotope ratio data, also known as water isoscape, is a spatiotemporal fingerprint and a powerful natural tracer that has been widely applied in disciplines as diverse as hydrology, paleoclimatology, ecology and forensic investigation. Although much effort has been devoted to developing a predictive water isoscape model, it remains a central challenge for sc...

In contrast to biomineralization phenomena, that are among the most widely studied topics in modern material and earth science and biomedicine, much less is systematized on modern view of demineralization. Biomineralized structures and tissues are composites, containing a biologically produced organic matrix and nano- or microscale amorphous or crystalline minerals. Demineralization is the proc...

[1] The marine production, cycling, and air-sea gas exchange of nitrous oxide (N2O) are simulated in a coupled climate-biogeochemical model of reduced complexity. The model gives a good representation of the large-scale features of the observed oceanic N2O distribution and emissions to the atmosphere. The transient behavior of the model is tested for the Younger Dryas (Y-D) cold period (12,700–...

Tree-ring records constitute excellent high-resolution data and provide valuable information for climate science paleoclimatology. reconstructions of past temperature variations agree to show evidence annual-to-centennial anomalies in place the industrial-era warming context late Holocene patterns regimes. Despite their wide use paleoclimate research, however, tree rings have also been deemed u...

In answer to calls for research about professional change, this study addressed the question: What is involved in college science faculty readiness change instructional practice? The setting was a development experience oceanography/marine and paleoclimatology among 32 from 2- 4-year colleges. Ten of participated interviews, all provided survey responses documents used study. Cycles inductive a...