Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Perspectives on massive coral growth rates in a changing ocean

JM Lough, NE Cantin - The Biological Bulletin, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
The tropical ocean environment is changing at an unprecedented rate, with warming and
severe tropical cyclones creating obvious impacts to coral reefs within the last few decades …

Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean

K Douglass, J Cooper - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in
the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health …

A universal multi-trace element calibration for reconstructing sea surface temperatures from long-lived Porites corals: Removing 'vital-effects'

JP D'Olivo, DJ Sinclair, K Rankenburg… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Trace element abundances in corals can potentially provide high-resolution seasonally
resolved constraints on past sea-surface temperatures, much needed to improve our …

Coral Sr‐U thermometry

TM DeCarlo, GA Gaetani, AL Cohen… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Coral skeletons archive past climate variability with unrivaled temporal resolution. However,
extraction of accurate temperature information from coral skeletons has been limited by “vital …

Comparison of equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature variability and trends with Sr/Ca records from multiple corals

AE Alpert, AL Cohen, DW Oppo, TM DeCarlo… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coral Sr/Ca is widely used to reconstruct past ocean temperatures. However, some
studies report different Sr/Ca‐temperature relationships for conspecifics on the same reef …

Impacts of coral growth on geochemistry: Lessons from the Galápagos Islands

EV Reed, DM Thompson, JE Cole… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coral geochemical climate reconstructions can extend our knowledge of global climate
variability and trends over time scales longer than those of instrumental data. However, such …

The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr / Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the …

RM Walter, HR Sayani, T Felis, KM Cobb… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The response of the hydrological cycle to anthropogenic climate change, especially across
the tropical oceans, remains poorly understood due to the scarcity of long instrumental …

Forging ahead by land and by sea: Archaeology and paleoclimate reconstruction in Madagascar

K Douglass, J Zinke - African Archaeological Review, 2015 - Springer
Madagascar is an exceptional example of island biogeography. Though a large island,
Madagascar's landmass is small relative to other places in the world with comparable levels …

Twentieth century sea surface temperature and salinity variations at Timor inferred from paired coral δ18O and Sr/Ca measurements

SY Cahyarini, M Pfeiffer, IS Nurhati… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), which represents the global ocean circulation
connecting the Pacific Warm Pool to the Indian Ocean, strongly influences the Indo‐Pacific …