PP012
Historical and Paleo Perspectives on Fire in the Earth System
Session ID#: 156725
Session Description:
Wildfire has evolved as part of the Earth System since the Silurian and interacts with the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere via complex and ever-changing relationships. The impacts of recent extreme wildfires and the predicted effects of climate change have together sparked greater interest in the drivers and controls of fire. Paleofire and historical records offer context with which we can assess the magnitude of observed burning, infer fire-human-climate relationships, and predict the impact of fire on ecosystem dynamics. Paleo-records provide perspectives of fire history both before and as humans became the dominant influence on global fire activity. These comparisons can be used to assess current wildfire drivers, behavior and impacts. An array of archives, proxies, methodologies, and statistical analyses facilitate the paleofire approach. We encourage abstracts that seek to understand the history, controls, and impacts of fire across all temporal and spatial scales. We also welcome fire proxy developments, calibrations, and comparisons.
Index Terms:
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4912 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4914 Continental climate records [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4950 Paleoecology [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Convener: Richard S Vachula, Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, VA, United States
Conveners: Jarunetr (Nadia) Sae-Lim, Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, Troy M Ferland, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Allison Karp, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Jarunetr (Nadia) Sae-Lim, Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
Assessing Replication of Pyrogenic Organic Compounds in Coeval Tropical Stalagmites (1051385)
Rhawn Flavell Denniston1, Jonathan Azenon2, Elena Argiriadis3, Stefania Ondei4, Giulia Genuzio5, Mattia Baltieri5, Huong Nguyen6 and Jamie Thompson7, (1)Cornell College, Geology, Mt. Vernon, IA, United States, (2)Cornell College, Mount Vernon, United States, (3)Institute of Polar Sciences, Venice, Italy, (4)University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, (5)Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, (6)Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, (7)University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
Monsoon-driven teleconnections between Holocene fire regimes in Central Asia and the Neotropics (Invited) (1054652)
Sandra Bruegger1,2, Heinz Wanner2, Erika Gobet2, Michael Sigl3, Willy Tinner2 and Margit Schwikowski1,2, (1)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland, (2)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (3)University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland
Paleo-pyro-diversity and Ecosystem Resilience to Wildfires over the Late Holocene in a Northern Rocky Mountain Forested Watershed (1057435)
Kyra D Clark Wolf1, Kendra McLauchlan2, Meredith Parish3, Bryan N Shuman4 and Philip E Higuera1, (1)University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (3)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Wildfire Regime across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (1097385)
Kira Biener, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, United States, Robert Kelleher, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Nadia Dildar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Heather Jones, MARUM - University of Bremen, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, Timothy J Bralower, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Mohamed Hedi Negra, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia and Julio Sepulveda, University of Colorado, Geological Sciences and INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
First evidence of paleo wildfire records from Trans Himalaya vis-à-vis climate and human intervention (1105707)
Sumit Sagwal1, Dipanwita Sengupta1, Anil Kumar1, Som Dutt1, Pradeep Srivastava2, Rajesh Agnihotri3 and Ravi Bhushan4, (1)Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India, (3)Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, (4)Physical Research Laboratory, Geosciences Division, Ahmedabad, India
Long-Term Perspectives on Recent Tundra Fires in Southwest Greenland from Lake Sediments (1121991)
Melissa L Chipman, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States and Yarrow Axford, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
Surface sampling of wetlands in a tropical dry forest after a large fire: Wind direction dominates the transport and deposition of proxies. (1145355)
Nithin Kumar1, Prabhakaran Ramya Bala2, Diptimayee Behera3, Anoop Ambili3 and Raman Sukumar4, (1)National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, (2)National Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Natural Sciences, Bengaluru, India, (3)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, Mohali, India, (4)Centre for ecological sciences, Indian institute of science, Bangalore, India
Wildfire response to glacial-interglacial environmental variability inferred from molecular proxies at Lake El’gygytgyn, Far East Russia (1146965)
William Daniels, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Isla S. Castañeda, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Julie Brigham-Grette, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, Carly Lombardo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States, Kai Mangelsdorf, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Elisabeth Dietze, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
A 60,000-year fire history from Lake Tulane, Florida (1158382)
Miranda Siedelmann, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Jocelyn Lam, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, Angelina Perrotti, Brown University, Providence, United States, James Russel, Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States
Characterizing Fire Regimes of Northwest African Savannas From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Holocene (1164048)
Nicholas A O'Mara, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Kevin T Uno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, United States, Peter B deMenocal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Pratigya J Polissar, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Understanding the Primary Controls on Afroalpine Wildfire Regimes Based on Charcoal Records from the Rwenzori Mountains (1166768)
Eleanor Pereboom1, James M Russell2, Andrea Mason1, Sloane Garelick1 and Charles Medeiros2, (1)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
Reconstructing Environmental History Using Macrocharcoal, PAHs And Plant Waxes In A Tropical Dry Forest, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Southern India (1170438)
Prabhakaran Ramya Bala1, Nithin Kumar2, Diptimayee Behera3, Anoop Ambili3 and Raman Sukumar4, (1)National Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Natural Sciences, Bengaluru, India, (2)National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, (3)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, Mohali, India, (4)Centre for ecological sciences, Indian institute of science, Bangalore, India
A 1000 years of decadal-scale Southern California vegetation and sediment responses to fire regimes (1178801)
Ingrid L Hendy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Linda E Heusser, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Xiaojing Du, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Arndt Schimmelmann, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Dorothy K Pak, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Fire trends and variability in Neogene East Africa (1184459)
MacKenzie Pina, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, United States, Troy M Ferland, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Kevin T Uno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, United States
The 30,000 years record of fire reconstruction, rainfall fluctuation and vegetation change from northern India (1184829)
Mukesh Prasad, Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Mohanpur, India, Deepak Kumar Jha, Indian Institute for Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Nadia, India and Prasanta Sanyal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Earth Sciences, Mohanpur, India
