Exploring the links between volcanoes, climate and humans using speleothem records

利用石笋重建过去的火山喷发，分析火山灰中浸出的微量和稀土元素，结合传统的稳定同位素方法，调查这些喷发对气候强迫的作用（特别是低纬度地区）。应用非传统的方法和元素来重建洞穴沉积物中的火山信号。此外，我将把这些技术应用于东南欧和东南亚洞穴沉积物中的古污染，这可能具有重要的考古意义。由于人类重金属污染依赖于社会发展，铅污染可以作为文明兴衰的代理。如果这些数据可以与火山活动的数据联系起来，那么文明、气候和火山活动之间可能存在潜在的相互作用。

Reconstruction of past volcanic eruptions using stalagmites, analysing trace and rare earth elements leached from tephra, combining with traditional stable isotope methods to investigate the roles of these eruptions on climate forcing (particularly sites at lower latitudes). Applications of non-traditional methods and elements to reconstruct volcanic signals in speleothems.Further I will be applying these techniques to palaeo-pollution in speleothems from SE Europe and SE Asia which could be of great archaeological importance. Since anthropogenic heavy metal pollution relies on societal development, Pb pollution could be used as a proxy for civilisational rise and fall. If these data can be linked to those of volcanism, a potential interplay between civilisation, climate and volcanism may be proposed.