Asian tree rings explain historical plague outbreaks in Europe

An interdisciplinary consortium of researchers from Oslo University and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, for the first time, demonstrate that climate-driven plague outbreaks in Asia were repeatedly transmitted over several centuries into southern European harbors. This finding contrasts the general believe that the second plague pandemic "Black Death" ...
February 23, 2015 in Press / Interviews
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Workshop: Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800), ZIF Bielefeld, 19-20 Feb 2015

19-20 February, 2015 I will be at University Bielefeld, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), attending the workshop "Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800). Socio-natural Entanglements in Premodern Societies", where I will provide a lecture titled "A tree-ring perspective on ‘Little Ice Age’ summer temperature variability". Download programme
February 16, 2015 in Workshops / Meetings
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Workshop: FP1203 European Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) Network, Zagreb, Croatia, 18-19 Feb 2015

Together with Simon Egli (also WSL), I will a attend the COST Action "FP1203 European Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) Network" 3rd Workshop and 4th Management Committee Meeting in Zagreb, Croatia, February 18-19, 2015, providing a keynote entitled “A (dendro)climatological perspective on fungal ecology”. Download agenda
February 16, 2015 in Workshops / Meetings
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