Warm-water events in the eastern Fram Strait during the last 2000 years as revealed by different microfossil groups

The environmental system of the northern Nordic Seas is very sensitive to oceanographic and climatic changes at the contact of cold Arctic and warmer North Atlantic waters. These contrasts are reflected in the associations of marine microorganisms and archived in the bottom sediments. A microfossil study (diatoms, coccoliths) of late Holocene sediments in core MSM5/5-712-1 from the eastern Fram Strait provides a better understanding of marine ecosystems and palaeoenvironments during Arctic warming events of the last two millennia. Indicative diatom species and groups of species revealed a high variability of sea-surface conditions. Based on the diatom distribution, three warming periods could be detected, corresponding to the time intervals of 0 to 440 CE (the later part of the Roman Warm Period), 1200 to1420 CE (the final part of the Medieval Climate Anomaly) and 1730 CE to present (including the Recent Warming). The various micropalaeontological proxies used in this study and other publications describe the Roman Warm Period and, especially, the Recent Warming as the most pronounced warm events in the area during the last 2000 years. A comparison of data from the different microfossil groups, indicators of sea-surface and subsurface conditions, reveals variable, complicated and non-simultaneous palaeoenvironmental signals within the warm periods. This can potentially be explained by changes in the surface/subsurface water structure during the events (variations in the cold/warm water advection, stratification, availability of nutrients, seasonal succession of bioproductivity, etc.), which are reflected by changes in the microplankton communities

Correction: Computationally guided discovery of a reactive, hydrophilic: Trans -5-oxocene dienophile for bioorthogonal labeling:(Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2017) 15 (6640-6644) DOI: 10.1039/C7OB01707C)

Correction for ‘Computationally guided discovery of a reactive, hydrophilic trans-5-oxocene dienophile for bioorthogonal labeling’ by William D. Lambert et al., Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 6640–6644

Vertical distribution of nannofossils in the section of DSDP Site 72-516

Calcareous nannoplankton from 44 samples of a thick (169.5 m) Neogene section of DSDP Site 516 in the South Atlantic was studied. More than 60 species were determined. Distribution of these species along the section allowed to establish availability of eight biostratigraphic subdivisions according to schemes of E. Martini (NN) and D. Bukry (CN): NN2 (CN 1c)-NN18 (CN12a). In the middle of Middle Miocene and in the end of Late Cretaceous - beginning of Pliocene two periods of stratigraphic hiatus were noted in the section. They have local nature and are only partly determined in adjacent DSDP sites at the Rio Grande Rise

Proceedings of the 9th Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference

It is our privilege to introduce this special issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, which presents the Proceedings of the 9th Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference (ECCC9).[...