A review of speleothems as archives for paleofire proxies, with Australian case studies

M Campbell, L McDonough, PC Treble… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires affect 40% of the earth's terrestrial biome, but much of our knowledge of wildfire
activity is limited to the satellite era. Improved understanding of past fires is necessary to …

When it comes to Earth observations in AI for disaster risk reduction, is it feast or famine? A topical review

MM Kuglitsch, A Albayrak, J Luterbacher… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Earth observations (EOs) have successfully been used to train artificial intelligence (AI)-
based models in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR) contributing to tools such as …

Linked fire activity and climate whiplash in California during the early Holocene

J Homann, JL Oster, CB De Wet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent wildfire activity in semi-arid regions like western North America exceeds the range of
historical records. High-resolution paleoclimate archives such as stalagmites could …

Caves demonstrate decrease in rainfall recharge of southwest Australian groundwater is unprecedented for the last 800 years

SC Priestley, PC Treble, AD Griffiths, A Baker… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Billions of people worldwide rely on groundwater. As rainfall in many regions in the future is
projected to decrease, it is critical to understand the impacts of climate change on …

[HTML][HTML] Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in tropical Australian stalagmites: a framework for reconstructing paleofire activity

E Argiriadis, RF Denniston, S Ondei… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Human activity and climate change are altering natural rates and intensities of wildfire, but
the scale and extent of burning prior to the modern era are poorly understood. Paleofire …

[HTML][HTML] SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database

N Kaushal, FA Lechleitner, M Wilhelm… - … system science data, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Palaeoclimate information on multiple climate variables at different spatiotemporal scales is
becoming increasingly important to understand environmental and societal responses to …

Sulphur variations in annually layered stalagmites using benchtop micro-XRF

H Wang, P Treble, A Baker, AM Rich… - … Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Variation of sulphur in annually laminated stalagmites can be used to infer the impact of past
volcanic activities, anthropogenic pollution, and climate change due to increased bushfire …

Veliki gozdni požari v Sloveniji

B Komac - Geografski vestnik, 2022 - ojs-gr.zrc-sazu.si
V članku predstavljamo temeljne značilnosti velikih požarov v naravi v Sloveniji. V uvodu
obravnavamo njihovo pogostost in geografsko razširjenost na svetovni in evropski ravni, ki …

A guide to synchrotron hard X-ray fluorescence map** of annually laminated stalagmites: Sample preparation, analysis and evaluation

A Borsato, S Frisia, D Howard, A Greig - Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Annually laminated stalagmites are an exceptional archive of high-resolution past
hydroclimate changes and provide robust annually-resolved age models. Stalagmite …

[HTML][HTML] Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy

LK McDonough, M Campbell, PC Treble, C Marjo… - Organic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding organic matter (OM) in cave mineral deposits (speleothems) is essential for
interpreting land use and climatic changes, and the incorporation of trace elements …