Jing Lei¹, Zhengguo Shi¹, Xiaoning Xie¹, Yingying Sha¹, Xinzhou Li¹, Xiaodong Liu¹ and Zhisheng An², (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

Xueqin Zhao, MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Lydie M Dupont, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany and Andreas Koutsodendris, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

Heather Birch¹, Daniela N Schmidt², Chloe Todd² and Marci M Robinson³, (1)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)USGS, Reston, VA, United States

Fernanda Luft de Souza¹, Guilherme Krahl¹ and Gerson Fauth², (1)itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, Unisinos University, São Leopoldo, Brazil, (2)Unisinos University, itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, São Leopoldo, Brazil

Omotayo Anuoluwapo Fadina¹, Igor Venancio², Andre Luiz Belem³, Douglas Villela De Oliveira Lessa³, Carla Semiramis Silveira¹, Thiago pereira Dos santos⁴, Denise Bertagnolli¹, Emmanoel Vieira Silva-Filho³ and Ana Luiza Albuquerque³, (1)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, (2)Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (3)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, (4)UFF Federal Fluminese University, Niteroi, Brazil

Azumi Kuroyanagi¹, Takashi Toyofuku², Yukiko Nagai^2,3, Katsunori Kimoto⁴, Hiroshi Nishi¹, Reishi Takashima¹ and Hodaka Kawahata⁵, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, X-STAR, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)National Museum of Nature and Science, Tukuba, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)AORI, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Lindsey Monito, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States and Kristen K St John, James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg, VA, United States

Steve I Dworkin¹, Julia Steenberg², Noah Trawicki Anderson³, Clinton A Cowan⁴, Andrew Retzler² and Anthony Runkel², (1)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Minnesota Geological Survey, St. Paul, MN, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States

Ryoma Hayashi, Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Japan, Takuya Sagawa, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Tomohisa Irino, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan and Ryuji Tada, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Alexandre Woodward¹, Judith Avila¹, Matthew Kirby², Glen M MacDonald³, Joe Carlin⁴, Jenifer Leidelmeijer¹, Benjamin Nauman⁵, Jiwoo Han⁵ and Cody Poulsen⁶, (1)California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (2)Cal-State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (3)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)California State University, Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

Gary S. Dwyer, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Thomas M Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA, United States, Katherine Keller, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States and Laura Gemery, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States

Shanshan Liu, Dabang Jiang and Xianmei Lang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Karim Lakhani, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz and Minda M Monteagudo, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States

Jung-Yuan Tsai¹, Mii Horng-Sheng¹, Wang Shih-Wei², Lin Chung-Yeh³ and Qie Wen-kun⁴, (1)Department of Earth Sciences Nation Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, (3)Department of Earth Sciences National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Henry Nye, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Alan Condron, Univ of Mass-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States

Soyoung Baek^1,2, Kyoung-nam Jo^1,2 and Kyung Sik Woo¹, (1)Kangwon National University, Division of Geology and Geophysics, Chuncheon, South Korea, (2)Kangwon National University, Critical zone Frontier Research Laboratory (CFRL), Chuncheon, South Korea

Zhanjie Qin, Qingkuan Li Sr, Xiangru Zhang, Qishun Fan, Yongsheng Du, Haicheng Wei, Qin Yuan and Fashou Shan, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Geology and Environment of Salt Lakes, Xining, China

Soo-Yeon Im, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Soon-Il An, Yonsei University, Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

Akiara Harada, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Kei Yoshimura, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Tsukasa Mizutani, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Amy Cromartie¹, Odile Peyron², Sébastien Joannin², Mary Robles³, Lucas Dugerdil⁴, Claire Blanchet⁵, Erwan Messager⁵, David Etienne⁶ and Guillemette Menot⁴, (1)Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)University of Montpellier, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Montpellier, France, (3)University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy, (4)Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Laboratoire de géologie de Lyon : Terre, planètes, environnement (LGL-TPE), Lyon, France, (5)Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Environnements DYnamiques et TErritoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Chambéry, France, (6)Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, SCIENCES DE LA VIE, Chambery, France

Howie Scher¹, Wayne P Buckley Jr², Tim Krawczyk³, Brian Duggan⁴ and Amanda Namsinh⁴, (1)University of South Carolina Columbia, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Columbia, SC, United States, (2)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, (3)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States

Guilherme Krahl, itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, Unisinos University, São Leopoldo, Brazil, Marlone Heliara Hünning Bom, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil, Karlos Guilherme Diemer Kochhann, Unisinos University, São Leopoldo, Brazil, Jairo F Savian, IAG-USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Gerson Fauth, Unisinos University, itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, São Leopoldo, Brazil

Mebrahtu Weldeghebriel and Tim K Lowenstein, Binghamton University, Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton, NY, United States

Anna Paula Soares Cruz¹, Chandranath Basak², Rodrigo da Costa Portilho-Ramos³, Anthony Earl Rathburn¹ and Catia Fernandes Barbosa⁴, (1)California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, United States, (2)California State University, Bakersfield, Department of Geological Sciences, Bakersfield, CA, United States, (3)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Geoquimica, Niteroi, Brazil

Mauro Daniel Rodrigues Bruno¹, David K Watkins², Jairo F Savian³ and Gerson Fauth¹, (1)Unisinos University, itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, São Leopoldo, Brazil, (2)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)IAG-USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sachini M Ranasinghe, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Pradeep N Ranasinghage, University of Ruhuna, Oceanography and Marine Geology, Matara, Sri Lanka and Tilak Hewawasam, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Lorraine E Lisiecki¹, Alan M Jones¹ and Charles Lawrence², (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

Manuel Paez¹, Brent Miller², Peter Copeland¹ and Osman Varol³, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Varol Research, Houston, TX, United States

Duo Wang and Xuan Ding, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Xiang Li¹, Yongyun Hu¹ and Peng Liu², (1)Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States

Stephen F Pekar, Queens College, City University of New York, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, Robert B Dunbar, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and the Scientific Team of IODP Expedition 318: Wilkes Land

Yuanyuan Zhang, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Yue Li, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China and Axel Munnecke, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Section Palaeoenviromental Research, University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Yassine Ait Brahim, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, Xi'an, China, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, Lijuan SHA, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xian, China, Francisco William Cruz Sr., Universidade de São Paulo, Instutit of geosciences, São Paulo, Brazil, Michael Deininger, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Abdelfettah Sifeddine, UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, University Ibn Zohr, Hydrogeology, Agadir, Morocco, Christoph Spӧtl, Barcelona, Spain, R. Lawrence Edwards, Nanjing Normal University, Dept. of Geography, Nanjing, China and Hai Cheng, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Matthew LeRoy¹, Benjamin C Gill¹, Theodore R Them II² and Jeremy D Owens³, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States, (3)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States

Cassandre Rose Stirpe¹, Katherine A Allen¹, Elisabeth L Sikes², Xiaoli Zhou³, Yair Rosenthal³, Alicia M Cruz-Uribe¹ and Hanna L. Brooks¹, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Marine & Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Jonathan Douglas Maurer, University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, United States, Katherine A Allen, University of Maine, Earth & Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, Cassandre Rose Stirpe, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Lloyd D Keigwin, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Taehee Lee¹, Lorraine E Lisiecki², Devin Rand², Geoffrey Gebbie³ and Charles Lawrence¹, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States

Joao Ballalai Mr¹, Thiago pereira Dos santos², Douglas Villela De Oliveira Lessa³, Igor Venancio⁴, Cristiano M Chiessi⁵, Heather H. Johnstone⁶, Henning Kuhnert⁷, Felipe Antonio de Lima Toledo⁸, Karen B Costa⁸ and Ana Luiza Albuquerque³, (1)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, (2)UFF Federal Fluminese University, Niteroi, Brazil, (3)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, (4)Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (5)University of Sao Paulo, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo, Brazil, (6)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)MARUM, Universitaet Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (8)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Luciane Silva Moreira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, geochemistry, Niteroi, Brazil, Patricia F Moreira-Turcq, IRD UFF, Bondy, France, Keila Aniceto, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Renato Campello Cordeiro, Federal Fluminese University, Niteroi, Brazil and Bruno Turcq, IRD, Bondy, France

Lilian Maia Leandro¹, Alessandra Santos¹, Marcelo De Araujo Carvalho², Gerson Fauth³ and Simone Baecker Fauth¹, (1)itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, Unisinos University, São Leopoldo, Brazil, (2)Laboratório de Paleoecologia Vegetal (LAPAV), Museu Nacional, Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (3)Unisinos University, itt Fossil - Instituto Tecnológico de Micropaleontologia, São Leopoldo, Brazil

Christof Pearce¹, Jesper Olsen², Matt O'Regan³ and Martin Jakobsson³, (1)Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus C, Denmark, (2)Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

Catherine V Davis, University of South Carolina Columbia, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Robert Thunell, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States and Pincelli M Hull, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States

Shirley Tsotsoo Mensah¹, Tyler Kukla², Aishat Olowoshile³, Casey Elizabeth Mullins³, Danielle Y Moragne⁴, Mairin Balisi⁵, Daniel Enrique Ibarra⁶, Jeremy K Caves Rugenstein⁷ and C Page Chamberlain⁶, (1)Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, United States, (2)Stanford University, Geological Sciences Department, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Earth Science, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)La Brea Tar Pits Museum, Los Angelos, CA, United States, (6)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (7)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Pradeep N Ranasinghage, University of Ruhuna, Department of Oceanography and Marine Geology, Matara, Sri Lanka, Sachini M Ranasinghe, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Konrad A Hughen, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lahiruni Kumari, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka

Lael Vetter, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jennifer S Fehrenbacher, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Haojia Abby Ren, Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen Li¹, Zhimin Jian¹, Haowen Dang², Guodong Jia³ and Jianxin Wang¹, (1)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (2)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (3)Guangzhou Institute of, Guangzhou, China

Jose Mendez¹, Peter J. van Hengstum², Annie Tamalavage³, Shawna Nicole Little², Jacquelyn N Cresswell⁴, Tyler Scott Winkler⁵, Richard M Sullivan⁶, Jeffrey P Donnelly⁷ and Nancy A. Albury⁸, (1)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (6)Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (7)WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)Antiquites, Monuments, and Museums Corporation/National Museum of The Bahamas, Marsh Harbour, Bahamas

Nora Deni Soto Contreras, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Yurena Yanes, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Geology, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Javier Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain

Joan Macalalad, Kevin Welsh, Harald Hofmann, Dean Krak and Patrick T Moss, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Akanksha Rai¹, Biswajit Roy², Padmasini Behera³ and Prasanta Sanyal¹, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Kolkata, India, (2)IISER Kolkata, Nadia, India, (3)NCAOR Goa, Vasco da Gama, India

Xu Zhang, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Sara Kahanamoku, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jared C Richards, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Ivo A. P. Duijnstee, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Seth Finnegan, University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States

Arghya Goswami, Northwest Missouri State University, Department of Natural Sciences, Maryville, MO, United States

Matthieu Chicoye¹, Dayana Manrique¹, Alan Mix², Jason A Addison³ and Mea S Cook¹, (1)Williams College, Geosciences, Williamstown, MA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)USGS, Geology, Minerals, Energy, & Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States

Liliana Corona Martinez, Centro de Geociencias, Geoquímica, Queretaro, Mexico and J P Bernal, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Alexandra Valencia Villa, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, Shaun A Marcott, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, Aradhna E. Tripati, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Stephen Richard Meyers, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States

Mark Mckay, Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States