[Geoinfo] Fwd: WiSH project developments

Mie Dic 27 09:53:09 -03 2023

Estimados colegas, compartimos con ustedes informacion de interes que nos
hace llegar Javiera Carraha, estudiante de Doctorado en Geografía en la
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y representante de los ECR (Early
Career Researcher) de Sudamérica en el proyecto WiSH (Warm Intervals in the
Southern Hemisphere). E proyecto ha sido recientemente aprobado y
financiado por INQUA (2024-7). El proyecto, se construye desde el éxito del
anterior proyecto SHeMAX financiado por INQUA (2016-9), busca comprender la
naturaleza, propiedades, y los patrones espaciotemporales de los Intervalos
Cálidos del hemisferio sur durante el Cuaternario.

El motivo del mensaje guarda relación, precisamente, con el proyecto WiSH,
ya que se estan pensando detenidamente las actividades para el próximo año,
2024, y congregando a toda la comunidad que se interese en participar de
esta iniciativa. A continuación, comparto más información, donde podrán
encontrar un fragmento de la propuesta presentada a INQUA al igual que la
carta de aceptación como archivo adjunto. Sería ideal si pudieran compartir
esta información entre sus redes. El formulario para inscribirse en la
lista de correo del proyecto WiSH está disponible en
https://forms.gle/EptvPTEtJSzxoSQr7.

Estamos organizando una sesión dedicada al proyecto WiSH para la reunión
AQUA (Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia, 24-29 de junio de 2024), de
la cual daremos más detalles a principios de 2024, pero esperamos que
incluya una sesión presencial estándar en la reunión y una sesión
específica de modo virtual para las personas que no puedan asistir
presencialmente. También esperamos tener una sesión en SASQUA (Cango
Valley, Sudáfrica, 26-31 de mayo de 2024). La información sobre las
reuniones sudamericanas de 2024 está por confirmar. También está el número
especial de JQS, derivado de la sesión especial en Roma INQUA,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991417/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2023-000654
- todavía hay tiempo para presentar un artículo, con fecha límite 31 de
enero de 2024.

Por favor, siéntanse en la libertad de contactarme en caso de dudas o
cualquier otro requerimiento.

Muchas gracias,
Javiera Carraha.

En nombre del comité directivo >>

Javiera Carraha (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) jpcarraha en uc.cl
Kathryn Fitzsimmons (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
kathryn.fitzsimmons en uni-tuebingen.de
Jasper Knight (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
jasper.knight en wits.ac.za
Lydia Mackenzie (University of Tasmania, Australia)
lydia.mackenzie en utas.edu.au
Elizabeth Rudolph (University of the Free State, South Africa)
RudolphEM en ufs.ac.za
James Shulmeister (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
james.shulmeister en canterbury.ac.nz

*MSc. Javiera Carraha Molina*
Estudiante de Doctorado
Instituto de Geografía
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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*De:* Jasper Knight <Jasper.Knight en wits.ac.za>
*Enviado:* miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023 9:20
*Asunto:* WiSH project developments

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to tell you that the application to INQUA for the WiSH (Warm
Intervals in the Southern Hemisphere) project was approved and funded, for
the intercongress period 2024-7. Congratulations! Please see the attached
letter. This will be hosted through the PALCOM commission. Jamie has kindly
agreed that the funds will be held (overhead-free) at the University of
Canterbury. Funds will be used preferentially to support ECR (early career
researcher) and DCR (developing country researcher) involvement in the
project.

We are therefore now thinking carefully about activities for the next year,
2024. For outline, below I have pasted the blurb from the proposal to INQUA
>>

*This multiyear project (2024-7) is focused on understanding the nature,
properties and spatio-temporal patterns of warm intervals in the southern
hemisphere (WiSH) during the Quaternary. Understanding the controls on and
characteristics of warm phases is important in the light of present global
warming; it is likely that many critical thresholds of Earth system
behaviour are linked to warming rather than cooling. Warm intervals during
the Quaternary vary in length, spatial scale, and magnitude, and ranged
from warm marine isotope stages through to shorter-lived phases associated
with ocean-atmosphere variability.  There is however a lack of data on warm
episodes during the Quaternary – both globally and in particular in the
southern hemisphere – where the research emphasis has been on cold phases
rather than warm phases. This project will work towards understanding warm
intervals through analysis of existing and new multiproxy and modelling
studies undertaken in different physical environments across the southern
hemisphere, in both terrestrial and marine environments. Through this
project we anticipate identifying some of these boundary conditions
associated with warm phases, particularly through modelling approaches.*

*This project builds from the success of the previous INQUA-funded SHeMAX
project (2016-9) which focused on multiproxy records of the last glacial
maximum in the southern hemisphere. This project was successful in
developing and building research capacity especially with ECRs, and
intercontinental research networks. These achievements will evolve further
in the present proposal WiSH, which aims to examine the nature of both long
and short warm intervals during the Quaternary, broadly from MIS 5 to 1
inclusively, and to establish their timing, nature of onset, duration,
termination, magnitude, climatic stability, spatio-temporal extent,
correspondence between their expression in different environmental proxies
within the same region, and forcing-response relationships.*

*Global climate changes take place on different spatial and temporal scales
and impact on diverse environments in different ways. The outcome of these
variations in climate forcing is the generation of multiple proxy records
that document these climatic variations and any environmental feedbacks.
These are specifically examined in the WiSH project. Here, we consider a
wide range of multiproxy evidence (biological, sedimentary, chemical,
isotopic) from different regions, facilitating identification of nonlinear
forcing-response relationships that characterise the anatomy of warm
periods (their onset, duration, magnitude, termination). The range of
potential participants in this project gives us an exceptionally wide range
of thematic and geographic expertise to interrogate multiproxy records
across the southern hemisphere, and this will enhance the success of this
project.*

*The detailed activities undertaken in this four-year project (2024-7,
terminating at INQUA 2027 in India) are sequential, associated with the
different developmental stages of this project. They involve organising
regional meetings of Quaternary associations, and implementing elements
associated with ECR training and support. The overarching scientific steps
of this project are: (1) compiling existing information on warm phases
during the Quaternary of the southern hemisphere, derived from different
proxies. This may include different time periods, locations, resolutions,
or depositional environments. (2) Key warm phases may be identified based
upon this previous work, including identification of temporal, geographic
or thematic gaps, providing a research focus for new work. (3) Based on
stage 2, we intend to investigate new topic areas, multiproxy records or
modelling approaches.*

Thus, 2024 is going to have a particular focus on project design (i.e. how
individually or collectively we can approach an understanding of warm
Quaternary intervals), therefore please think about what projects you are
doing, what new things we could do individually or collectively, as an
add-on to existing or development of new projects. (This is not
prescriptive of course.)

Coming up in 2024 there are regional meetings of AQUA (Stradbroke Island,
Queensland, Australia, 24-29 June 2024)
https://aqua.org.au/conference/aqua-2024/   and SASQUA (Cango Valley, South
Africa, 26-31 May 2024) https://sasqua.co.za/sasqua-2024/ where we hope to
have a presence/session dedicated to the WiSH project. (This is certainly
going to be the case at AQUA – more details to follow early next year – but
will hopefully include a standard face to face session at the meeting and a
specific online meeting session for people unable to attend in person.)
Information about South American meetings in 2024 is TBC. Therefore please
colleagues think about if you can get involved in one of these regional
meetings. We also hope to have regular online meetings/seminars through the
year, more details to follow. We intend this project to be very active and
interactive and with multiple opportunities for engaging with each other
and building a supportive and developmental community of (academic)
practice on the Quaternary of the Southern Hemisphere. There is also the
special issue of JQS, arising from the special session at Rome INQUA,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991417/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2023-000654
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there is still time to submit a paper, deadline 31 January 2024.

Please also forward this email to any other colleagues who may be
interested. A sign-up form to be added to the mailing list for the WiSH
project is here https://forms.gle/EptvPTEtJSzxoSQr7 for any new people.

If you have any questions or queries, do please drop me a line.

Thanks, Jasper

On behalf of the steering group >>

Javiera Carraha (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) jpcarraha en uc.cl

Kathryn Fitzsimmons (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
kathryn.fitzsimmons en uni-tuebingen.de

Jasper Knight (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
jasper.knight en wits.ac.za

Lydia Mackenzie (University of Tasmania, Australia)
lydia.mackenzie en utas.edu.au

Elizabeth Rudolph (University of the Free State, South Africa)
RudolphEM en ufs.ac.za

James Shulmeister (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
james.shulmeister en canterbury.ac.nz

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