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Summer School on Speleothem Science
August 6, 2023 - August 13, 2023
S4 2023 will consist of three days of lectures and workshops from experts in the field of speleothem science at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Participants will also get the chance to present their own research to fellow participants and the experts during poster sessions. This will be followed by a 3-day field trip to PETAR (Parque Estadual Turistico do Alto Riberia), a beautiful region renowned for its caves.
Preliminary lecture topics (subject to change)
- Stable isotopes (oxygen and carbon)
- Trace elements
- Speleothem formation
- Cave monitoring + speleothem sampling (in the field)
- Dating (U and Pb)
- Speleothems and climate models
- Paleotemperature
- Karst geomorphology and hydrology (in the field)
- Multi-archive reconstructions
Preliminary workshops (subject to change)
- Speleothem petrography
- Age-depth modeling
- Time series analysis
- Professional development panel
- Cave photography (in the field)