Dr. Ignacio A. Jara
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Dr. Ignacio A. Jara
@elignaciojara.bsky.social
Homo sapiens var. chilensis/Paleosciences/Assistant Professor at @UTarapaca/President of INQUA Paleoclimate commission PALCOM

#Paleoclimate # Quaternary Sciences
Interested to apply for @INQUA funds?

Tomorrow 22 July, 10 am and 5 pm UTC, do not miss our online meetings.

We will provide critical info on how to apply and share experiences from current INQUA project leaders.

Checke the QR code for registration!

@PALCOM_INQUA
July 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Excited to share our new publication in QSR: The Altiplano paleoclimate of the last 21K, simulated by the CHELSA-TraCE21k transient downscaling.

Hope it can be a contribution to the climate history of this part of South America!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Professor Masanobu Yamamoto in the plenary talk today about Pleistocene CO2 variations inferred from leaf-wax carbon isotopes!

PAGES Open Science Meeting in Shanghai
May 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Kaustubh Thirumalai keynote talk on future increase in extreme ENSO events!

PAGES
Open Science Meeting
May 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Small but active Chilean delegation in the 2025 PAGES_IPO Open Science Meeting in Shanghai, China
May 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The @PAGES 2k network session is about to start here in Shanghai

#Pagesosm
May 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Rick et al 2025: Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

"These results are direct evidence of psychoactive plants [...] and the northernmost direct evidence of vilca and Nicotiana use in the pre-Hispanic Andes"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru | PNAS
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the development of dura...
www.pnas.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Climate and tectonics in Andes uplift --

Wang et al 2025: Glacial melting accelerates andean uplift: Insights from 2D viscoelastic-plastic subduction models

Larger glacier loads and high deglaciation rates accelerated the rapid uplift in the Andes

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Kageyama et al: 2024 -

“In the coming years, paleoclimates will also be highly relevant to test regional modeling methodologies that are being applied for studying current and future climate change”.
Great read!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
Frontiers | Lessons from paleoclimates for recent and future climate change: opportunities and insights
www.frontiersin.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Long et al. 2025:

"Lithium-rich brine formation in the Bieletan was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles, where warm periods increased river flow and material supply, while dry-cold periods intensified evaporation, promoting mineral enrichment"

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Lithium enrichment in the Qarhan Salt Lake (China) was a long-term process driven by interglacial-glacial cycles - Communications Earth & Environment
Glacial-interglacial cycles drove lithium-rich brine formation in the Qarhan Salt Lake in China, according to Th dating and fluid inclusion analyses in halite, and paleotemperature reconstructions.
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Otro fósil más de Denisoviano!

Tsutaya y colaboradores utilizaron análisis proteómico antiguo en una mandíbula de hominino previamente no identificada de Taiwán y la identificaron como perteneciente a un denisovano masculino.
April 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New Article led by Monika Markowska: Recurrent humid phases in central Arabia spanning the last 8 million years.

Desert speleothem analysis suggests these wetter intervals likely facilitated crucial faunal dispersals between Africa & Eurasia.

#Paleoclimate #Arabia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years - Nature
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian dispersals bet...
www.nature.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM