| Session Details | |
| Section | IG - Interdisciplinary Geosciences |
| Session Title | Lake Studies of Environmental Change |
| Main Convener | Dr. Christos Gouramanis (National University of Singapore, Singapore) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Sean Pyne-O'Donnell (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Dr. Stefan Engels (University of London, United Kingdom) |
| Session Description | Lake sediments archive environmental change (climate change, pollution, land use) and geological processes (landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes) over a wide variety of timescales spanning relatively recent (Anthropocene) to multi-millennial (Quaternary and older). Within lacustrine systems, sediments are preserved that include biotic, chemical, mineralogical and geophysical proxies that are ideal for reconstructing past natural and anthropogenic environmental change. At the same time, lacustrine systems preserve proxies for refining when and the persistence of the environmental changes, and thus provide material for developing robust chronologies for environmental and geological events using a variety of techniques, e.g. annual laminations, 14C, optically stimulated luminescence, tephrochronology, etc. This session invites contributions that apply a variety of proxies (both reconstructional and geochronological) for environmental reconstruction and/or the development and refinement of these proxies in lakes from Asia-Oceania. |