The freshwater discharge of the Amazon River exerts a significant control on near-surface salinities of the western equatorial Atlantic. The ability to accurately reconstruct past changes in the Amazon River …
In a recent paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Yancheng Zhang and co-authors showed that major accumulations of terrigenous sediments took place at the continental slope off NE …
A new outreach book about climate change was recently published by researchers from the Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center (INCLINE) of the University of São Paulo. Written by specialists from different …
The change of ocean chemistry between glacial and interglacial periods has been studied since the fifties, by investigating the relationship of ocean carbonates and the ocean waters. Large changes in …
Between August 17 and August 28 2015, the graduate course Climate Change and Interdisciplinarity was offered by researchers from the Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center, where Prof. Dr. Chiessi, P2L coordinator, …
Dr. Stríkis and co-authors (including Prof. Dr. Chiessi, P2L coordinator) recently published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters where they suggest that the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (one …
On 13-14 August 2015, the first meeting of the Paleoceano Project took place at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of São Paulo. The project …
In a recently published paper, Prof. Dr. Chiessi (P2L coordinator) and co-authors showed the first high-temporal-resolution sea surface temperature record for the Brazil Current spanning the last deglaciation. The inorganic …
