Invited by TEL Prof. ZHU Liping, Prof. Blas L. Valero-Garces, research professor and head of the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Spain, is visiting ITP this Thursday. Having been involved in many national and international limnological research programs, Prof. Valero-Garces is experienced at paleo-climate and –environment reconstruction using various geochemical proxies and biomarkers from lake sediment cores.

He will share his research with ITP staff during this visit. Your participation are warmly welcome!

Academic report: The Western End of the Silk Road: Moisture fluctuations reconstructed from paleoclimate archives in the Iberian Peninsula during the last millennia

Speaker: Prof. Blas L. Valero-Garces, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Spain

Venue: meeting room on the 2nd floor of ITP office building, Beijing

Time: 3.00 pm, Thursday, July 14, 2011

Abstract:

Iberian karstic lakes are particularly sensitive to moisture changes due to their relative small size and their hydrologically-closed basins. Detailed sedimentological and geochemical analyses complemented with some biological proxies (chironomids, diatoms, pollen) have been performed in those cores, in the frame of a multidisciplinary strategy. Climate and environmental evolution have been reconstructed from several Iberian lake records to investigate whether common signals of the Iberian- Roman Humid Period, the Cold Dark Medieval Ages, the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age are detected and what are the most plausible climate mechanisms.