Jakob Wallinga

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore and discuss how soil scientists can help to reach the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the most effective manner and recommend the following steps to be taken by the soil science community as a whole: (i) embrace the UN SDGs, as they provide a platform that allows soil science to demonstrate its relevance for realizing a sustainable society by 2030; (ii) show the specific value of soil science: research should explicitly show how using modern soil information can improve the results of inter-and transdisciplinary studies on SDGs related to food security

TL;DR: In this article, a series of radiocarbon-dated sediment cores from the Mississippi Delta were used to analyse late Holocene deposits and assess compaction rates, and they found that millennial-scale compaction rate primarily associated with peat can reach 5mm per year, values that exceed recent model predictions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to detect incomplete resetting of the OSL signal, or poor bleaching, by measuring the signal from small subsamples (aliquots).

TL;DR: In this article, dynamic ice-flow models for 12 glaciers and ice caps have been forced with various climate change scenarios, and the results indicate that few glaciers would survive until 2100.