Last weekend, climate researchers, historians, and archaeologists from around the world gathered in Princeton for the annual Climate Change and History Research Institute workshop. Participants were instructed by leaders in their fields on how to use climate proxy data collected from ice cores (Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute) and speleothems (Dominik Fleitmann, University of Reading), and in societal resilience theory (Marty Anderies, Arizona State University). Workshop attendees learned how these proxies are produced and the strengths and weaknesses inherent in them, in addition to theoretical framework for understanding how societies’ subsistence practices relate to their environments’ variable productivity.
Find out more about CCHRI at their webpage, here.