Researcher creates seawater isotope database to improve climate data reconstructions and projections

by Carly Nelson, Florida State University

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Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Florida State University paleoclimatologist led the creation of a global database hosting thousands of seawater isotope measurements collected over almost 50 years that will aid scientists in generating more accurate climate reconstructions and predictions.

Alyssa Atwood, an associate professor of oceanography and meteorology, led the Past Global Changes, or PAGES, project that created the new PAGES CoralHydro2k Seawater δ¹⁸O Database , a publicly accessible archive hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information.