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ITS2.2/BG1.15 | Forensics of Climate and Life
EDI
Forensics of Climate and Life
Convener: Daniel ClearyECSECS | Co-conveners: Sayak BasuECSECS, Hae-Li ParkECSECS, Valentina Vanghi, Deming Yang
The history of life on Earth is closely intertwined with past climate fluctuations and by studying how organisms have adapted and evolved in response to changing climates over time, we gain a deeper understanding of the processes of evolution and natural selection and the potential impacts of future climate change. Recent advancements across the research domains have seen for example (1) improvement to taxonomic profiling of microorganisms and ancient DNA extraction from archaeological sites, (2) geochemical mapping and dietary reconstructions across food webs (3) combination of instrumental observations, climate and biome model enabling us to assess the influence of extreme climatic events on vegetation composition at fine spatio-temporal scale. Despite the significant progress within each respective scientific realm, few occasions have allowed for a general bridge across these fields. Integrating the scientific approaches available in these communities will provide an idealistic opportunity to unravel the past, present and future lives of macro and micro-organisms that coexist with people and their potential regulation by climatic forcing.

In this session, we invite work concerned with organism-related studies (DNA sequencing, physiological processes, ecological strategies), chemical analyses on the geological materials (teeth, bone collagen, guano/feces, middens, sediment cores), climate and biome model simulations, and especially welcome studies applying an interdisciplinary approach to these topics. We aim to bring together interdisciplinary research and hope that through this session, individuals can discover new methodologies, applications and collaborations within their own work that would help push such science forward.