🥳We are very happy to announce that SISAL will go into a third phase thanks to support from Past Global Changes! We look forward to new collaborations on climate interpretations, proxy-system modelling,and spatial statistics! Get in touch if you are interested! 🥳

📢The #EGU24 SISAL group 'Speleodinner' will be after the SISAL session on 17 April at 19:00 at the Restaurant Wieden-Bräu. If you want to join please RSVP via email by 12 April latest. More info👉 pastglobalchanges.org/news/137781

Please join us at Goldschmidt this year!

It’s time for #EGU24 ! #speleothem , #karst , and #paleoclimate - enthusiasts - Rieneke Weij Monika Markowska Laura Endres, Ezgi Ünal-Imer and me have the perfect session for your abstract:
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Hurry to apply for travel support - deadline is on Friday 🏃🏻‍♀️ SISAL group

New paper using the SISAL DB: Vanessa Skiba Vanessa Skiba and Jens Fohlmeister used the SISALv2 database to study the effect of cave internal processes on stable isotope compositions and growth rates! Read the results in GCA: authors.elsevier.com/a/1gqqV3p4ZUTMD

The SISAL working group has been compiling a new version of our database (v3). First numbers:
Total # records: 902 (673 in SISALv2)
C isotopes: 619 (430 in SISALv2)
Trace elements+Sr-isotopes: 107 (NEW!)
Stay tuned for the release and paper this spring! Past Global Changes #PMIP

We are co-organizing the #speleothem session again at #EGU23 ! Work on all aspects of cave and karst formations as archives of past environmental and climatic changes is highly welcome! Abstract deadline: Jan 10th, Dec 1st for travel support. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/…

Any other non-climatic evidence from speleothems? I've seen earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, fires in caves, mining/pollution, dating archaeological finds in the cave, ancient DNA/pollen from stals (one for SISAL group peeps)

📢The deadline for #INQUARoma2023 abstracts is 28 November! Consider submitting an abstract to one of the PAGES groups 💪: pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/128891
🏞️DiverseK
🔥@paleofireWG
🌊PALSEA
⛰️SISAL group
🧗Varve Working Group
🌋VICS Working Group
🤓PAGES Early-Career Network
❄️DEEPICE Project

This is now open access.

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What has SISAL group been up to? Here is a summary of our last workshop. This kickstarted a new wave of data collection to provide the community with an updated database of speleothem isotopes AND trace elements! Stay tuned for its release this winter! tinyurl.com/2nj74p76

Speleothem data people: don't forget the upcoming deadline for the SISAL database v3! We accept workbooks until August 10th, including new stable isotope data, trace elements, or both! If you would like to contribute, find your regional contact here: pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/sis…

Vanessa Skirba brings SISAL group to the #KR9 show. Quantifying d18O, d13C and GR differences between contemporaneously growing stals. Adding a stalagmite isotope model gives insights into causes of those differences. (spoiler!: drip rate and pcp, CO2 exchange needed for modelling)

We have been quieter but not idle! Last week, SISAL group was at #EGU22 co-hosting the speleothem session. Lots of interesting talks on new methods and data-model integration. And of course, our traditional speleothem dinner! Past Global Changes EGU