Nicky Wright^1,2, Nerilie Abram^1,2, Bethany Ellis^2,3, Bronwyn Dixon^2,3, Jennifer B Wurtzel², Matthew H England^4,5, Caroline Ummenhofer^5,6, Belle Philibosian⁷, Sri Yudawati Cahyarini⁸, Tsai-Luen Yu^9,10, Chuan-Chou Shen^9,11, Hai Cheng¹², R. Lawrence Edwards¹³ and David Heslop², (1)The Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)The Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (4)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of New South Wales, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Research Centre for Geotechnology, Bandung, Indonesia, (9)National Taiwan University, Research Center for Future Earth, Taipei, Taiwan, (10)National Taiwan University, High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geoscience, Taipei, Taiwan, (11)National Taiwan University, High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Taipei, Taiwan, (12)Xi’an Jiaotong University, Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an, China, (13)University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Chaoyong Hu, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, School of Geography and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China and Yuhui Liu, China University of Geosciences, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, Wuhan, China

Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Steven C Clemens, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States and Judson Wiley Partin, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States

John C H Chiang, Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States and Michael J Herman, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Jongmin Lee¹, Sunghan Kim² and Boo-Keun Khim¹, (1)Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Polar Paleoenvironment, Incheon, South Korea

Chengcheng Liu, Hong Yan and Haobai Fei, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China

Ge Shi¹, Hong Yan¹ and Wenchao Zhang², (1)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (2)Key Lab of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, Ministry of Education, and College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Allan Sandes Sandes¹, Cleverson Guizan Silva¹, Andrea Kern², Paul A Baker³, Cristiano M Chiessi⁴, Fabricio Ferreira⁵, Ana Luiza Albuquerque¹, Gary S. Dwyer⁶ and Catherine A Rigsby⁷, (1)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (4)University of Sao Paulo, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo, Brazil, (5)UFF Federal Fluminese University, Niteroi, Brazil, (6)Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (7)East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States

Adi Torfstein^1,2 and Daniel Palchan^1,2, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel

Mahjoor Ahmad Lone, National Taiwan University, Research Center for Future Earth (NTU RCFE), Taipei, Taiwan; National Taiwan University, High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC) , Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Joyanto Routh, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Environmental Change, Linköping, Sweden, Yi-Hong Guo, National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Kalpana Munnuru Singamshetty, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, Vikash Kumar, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, India, Syed Masood Ahmad, CSIR- National Geophysical research Institute, Geochemistry (Paleoclimate), hyderabad, India, Carme Huguet, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Susanne Fietz, Stellenbosch University, Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Augusto Mangini, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, Horng-Sheng Mii, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, Yongjin Wang, Nanjing Normal University, Dept. of Geography, Nanjing, China, Shaohua Yang, Nanjing Normal University, School of Geography, Nanjing, China, Tsai-Luen Yu, National Taiwan University, Research Center for Future Earth, Taipei, Taiwan and Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University, High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Taipei, Taiwan

Shawna Nicole Little¹, Peter J. van Hengstum¹, Tyler Scott Winkler², Richard Sullivan³, Annie Tamalavage⁴, Jeffrey P Donnelly⁵, Nancy A. Albury⁶, Alex S Mayer⁷, Qiuyuan Nan⁸ and Jason Gulley⁹, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Texas A & M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (5)WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Antiquites, Monuments, and Museums Corporation/National Museum of The Bahamas, Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, (7)Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, (8)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States, (9)University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States

Shih-Yu Lee¹, Chi-Hua Wu² and Huang-Hsiung Hsu¹, (1)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Academia Sinica, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan

Yanjun Cai¹, Zhisheng An², Wenwen Kong³, Hai Cheng⁴, R. Lawrence Edwards⁵, Inez Y Fung⁶, Liangcheng Tan¹, Haiwei Zhang⁴ and Hua Bi⁷, (1)IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an, China, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Hainan Normal University, College of Geography and Environmental Science, Haikou, China

Xianfeng Wang, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore and Shufang Yuan, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Arielle Woods¹, Christine Y. Chen², Sophie B Lehmann¹, Robert G Hatfield³, Joseph Stephen Stoner³, David McGee², Blas Lorenzo Valero-Garces⁴, Donald T Rodbell⁵ and Mark B Abbott¹, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, (5)Union College, Schenectady, NY, United States

Solana Buchanan¹, Bryce Mitsunaga², Amy Jewell³, Anya J Crocker⁴, Paul A Wilson⁴, James M Russell⁵ and Timothy Herbert⁶, (1)Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (6)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States

Kevin Wright¹, Gabriela Serrato Marks², Kathleen R Johnson¹, David McGee², Tripti Bhattacharya³, Laura Eugenia Beramendi Orosco⁴ and Jean-Louis Lacaille Múzquiz⁴, (1)University of California, Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (4)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Geology, Mexico City, Mexico

Grace Windler and Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Bryce Mitsunaga¹, Brandon Stubbs¹, Rachel Lupien^1,2, Alan L Deino³, John Kingston⁴, Mona Stockhecke⁵, Erik Thorson Brown⁵ and James M Russell¹, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, RI, United States, (3)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Duluth, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, Duluth, MN, United States

Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, David McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Chloe H Anderson, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Ann G Dunlea, NIRVANA Laboratories, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Richard W Murray, Boston Univ, Boston, MA, United States, Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Ryuji Tada, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Simon C Brassell¹, Andrea Shilling², Devon Elizabeth Colcord³, Katherine Freeman⁴, Jackson K Njau⁵, Ian G Stanistreet⁶, Harald Stollhofen⁷, Kathy D Schick⁵ and Nicholas P Toth⁵, (1)Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Indiana University, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Indiana University Bloomington, The Stone Age Institute, Bloomington, IN, United States, (6)University of Liverpool, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (7)University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Kelsey E. Doiron¹, Hướng Nguyễn-Văn², Dương Nguyễn-Thuỳ², Arndt Schimmelmann¹, Antti Ojala³, Peter E Sauer⁴, Yu Fukumoto⁵, Ingmar Björn Unkel⁶, Thái Nguyễn-Đình², Jan P. Schimmelmann⁷ and Simon C Brassell⁸, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)VNU University of Science, Geology, Hanoi, Vietnam, (3)Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland, (4)Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN, United States, (5)Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, (6)Christian Albrechts University, Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel, Germany, (7)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (8)Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

Ying Yang, Jun Tian and Enqing Huang, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China