Peter Strand¹, Aaron E Putnam², Oyungerel Sambuu³, Zhisheng An⁴, Weijian Zhou⁴, Guocheng Dong⁵, Xianghui Kong⁶, Mariah J Radue⁷, Jessica Stevens⁸ and Benjamin James Lindsay⁹, (1)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Westfield, NJ, United States, (4)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (5)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Institute of Earth Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'An, China, (7)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (8)Gary Comer College Prep High School, Chicago, IL, United States, (9)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States