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Data for: Climate changes in the eastern Mediterranean over the last 5000 years and their links to the high-latitude atmospheric patterns and Asian monsoons
No full textBulk geochemistry (TOC, δ13C), relative abundances of n-alkanes, n-alkane δD values. Data from the Lerna core, NE Peloponnese, Greece
Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia — The Outsider Artist
No full textChristos Tsiolkas is regularly acknowledged as one of the most important writers working in Australia—indeed, the world—today. However, his proclivity for the public essay (in venues such as The Monthly), as well as his willingness to speak out on important social and political issues (such as refugees and marriage equality), casts him not only as an important writer, but also as a critical public figure in contemporary Australia. This collection of articles takes the range of Tsiolkas’s works (both fiction and non-fiction, as well as their television and cinematic adaptations) as their impetus, using these as a model to explore the significance of Tsiolkas’s intellectual contribution to Australian public life. As such, these articles work across genre, across theories, across national and international borders, and across disciplines in order to make clear Tsiolkas’s contemporary significance. Building on recent book-length studies on the author, including Andrew McCann’s Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity (2015) and my own Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (2017), what these articles hold in common is an assertion that Tsiolkas’s fiction and non-fiction always and everywhere serve a political and social purpose. As I have argued elsewhere, Tsiolkas’s writing ultimately suggests the ways in which we can shape a better future for Australia
Stable hydrogen isotopic composition (deuterium/hydrogen Ratio; dD) of selected n-alkanes from the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010
No full textThis dataset provides the stable hydrogen isotopic composition (deuterium/hydrogen
Ratio; dD) of selected n-alkanes from the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010. The data are presented as values relative to Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW). All parameters are presented against both depth (m) and age (ka BP). The dataset provides information on Eemian climate dynamics (Katrantsiotis et al., 2021). A total of 59 samples were analyzed using a Thermo gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) system, which consisted of a Trace Ultra GC connected to Delta V Ultra IRMS system via a GC-isolink and ConFlo IV system. Details on the laboratory protocol are provided in Katrantsiotis et al. (2021), and the analyses were carried out at the Stable Isotope Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden. A previous version of this dataset can be found on the Bolin Climate Centre database (https://bolin.su.se/data/katrantsiotis-2021-sokli-1)
Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate reconstruction over the last 3600 years based on sedimentary n-alkanes, their carbon and hydrogen isotope composition and XRF data from the Gialova Lagoon, SW Greece
No full textUnderstanding past hydroclimate variability and related drivers is essential to improve climate forecasting capabilities especially in areas with high climatic sensitivity, such as the Mediterranean. This can be achieved by using a broad spectrum of high resolution, multiple proxy records which can also allow us to assess linkages between regional hydroclimate variability and shifts in the large-scale atmospheric patterns. Here, we present a multiproxy reconstruction of the central-eastern Mediterranean hydro climate changes over the last 3600 years based on a sediment core from the Gialova Lagoon, a shallow coastal ecosystem in SW Peloponnese, Greece. Our combined dataset consists of the distribution and compound-specific carbon and hydrogen isotope (delta C-13 and 8D) composition of n-alkanes, bulk organic matter properties and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanning data. This approach was complemented with a semi-quantitative analysis of plant remains in the core. The results indicate a high contribution of local aquatic vegetation to organic matter. Large delta C-13 variations in predominantly aquatic plant-derived mid-chain alkanes (C23-23) mainly reflect changes in the aquatic plant abundance and their carbon source. Our data suggest that higher delta C-13(23-25) values (up to 19 parts per thousand) largely correspond to expansion of aquatic vegetation during wet and/or cold periods causing carbon-limiting conditions in the water and assimilation of isotopically-enriched bicarbonate by the plants. The 8D records of the individual n-alkanes (C-17 to C-31) exhibit a nearly identical pattern to each other, which implies that they all reflect changes in the source water isotope composition, driven by hydroclimate variability. In addition, the 8D profiles are consistent with the XRF data with both proxies being driven by a common hydroclimate signal. We observe two major shifts from dry and/or warm periods at ca 3600-3000 cal BP and ca 17001300 cal BP to wet and/or cold episodes at ca 3000-2700 cal BP and ca 1300-900 cal BP. The period ca 700-200 cal BP is the wettest and/or coldest in our record and coeval with the Little Ice Age. The climatic fluctuation reported in this study can be explained by the relative dominance of high-latitude (e.g. North Atlantic Oscillation during winters) and the low-latitude atmospheric patterns (Intertropical convergence zone, Subtropical High and the effects of Asian monsoons during summers) which suggests an Atlantic-Mediterranean-Monsoon climate link in this area for the late Holocene.</p
Relative abundances and concentrations of individual n-alkanes, total Concentration of odd n-alkanes, average chain length and the carbon preference index obtained from the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010
No full textThis dataset provides the relative abundances (Rel_abn) and concentrations (Conc; presented as ug/g dry weight) of individual n-alkanes, as well as the Total Concentration of odd n-alkanes (ug/g dry weight), average chain length (ACL) and the carbon preference index (CPI). The dataset consists of 59 samples obtained from the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010. All parameters are presented against both depth (m) and age (ka BP). The dataset provides information on Eemian vegetation and ecosystem dynamics (Katrantsiotis et al., 2021). Lipid extracts were obtained for a total of 59 samples and separated into different fractions following the laboratory protocol presented in Katrantsiotis et al. (2021). The hydrocarbon fractions were then analyzed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Shimadzu-QP2010 Ultra system) for n-alkane identification and quantification. CPI was calculated as: CPI = SUModd/SUMeven; (ACL) was determined as: ACL = SUM(n * Cn)/SUM(Cn), where Cn is the concentration (mg/g dry weight) of odd chain n-alkanes. The analyses were carried out at the Stable Isotope Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden. A previous version of this dataset can be found on the Bolin Climate Centre database (https://bolin.su.se/data/katrantsiotis-2021-sokli-1
Geochemical measurements for the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010
No full textThis dataset provides geochemical measurements for the Eemian sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010. The data are presented as percentages (TOC, TN), ratio (C/N), ‰ relative to Vienna Pee-Dee Belemnite (δ13Corg), and ‰ relative to standard air (δ15N). All parameters are presented against both depth (m) and age (ka BP). The geochemical dataset provides information on Eemian lake ecosystem and catchment dynamics (Katrantsiotis et al., 2021). A total of 60 samples from the Eemian sediment sequence were freeze-dried, homogenised and weighed into tin capsules for analysis. TOC, TN, δ 13Corg and δ¹⁵N were quantified with a Carlo Erba NC2500 elemental analyzer coupled with a Finnigan MAT Delta V mass spectrometer at the Stable Isotope Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden. A previous version of this dataset can be found on the Bolin Climate Centre database (https://bolin.su.se/data/katrantsiotis-2021-sokli-1)
The early development of the thought of Christos Yannaras
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Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision
No full textMore than two decades ago, Christos Tsiolkas’s his first novel Loaded was published and he had achieved a cult following in the short-lived grunge fiction scene of Australian writing. The novel was quickly adapted as the film Head On (1998), directed by Ana Kokkinos, and starring popular young Greek actor, Alex Dimitriades; like the novel, it was well-received by critics, if not by mainstream literary and cinematic culture. For the next few years, Tsiolkas worked on Jump Cuts, an experimental collaborative autobiography, with Sasha Soldatow (1996), as well as a number of theatre productions – Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (1999, co-written with Andrew Bovell, Melissa Reeves and Patricia Cornelius, and adapted to film as Blessed, also directed by Kokkinos [2009]), Thug (1998, written with Spiro Economopolous), and Elektra AD (1999) – but when The Jesus Man (1999) was published, its violent depiction of depression and suicide received critical attention as offensive and unnecessary. Partly because of the reception of The Jesus Man, and partly because of the density of its subject matter, his next novel, Dead Europe (2005) took six years to write. In the interim, he published a critical study of the film The Devil’s Playground (2002), and several more plays and screenplays: Viewing Blue Poles (2000), Saturn’s Return (2000), Fever (2002, co-written with Bovell, Reeves and Cornelius), Dead Caucasians (2002), Non Parlo di Salo (2005, written with Economopoulous), and The Hit (2006, written with Netta Yashin). Dead Europe was a triumphant return: it won the Age Book of the Year and the Melbourne Best Writing Award in 2006.
But it was the extraordinary critical and commercial success of The Slap (2008) which entirely changed Tsiolkas’s personal and professional circumstances. It was the fourth-highest selling book by an Australian author in 2009, won the ALS Gold Medal, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was Book of the Year for both the Australian Booksellers Association and the Australian Book Industry Award. The Slap was also adapted as a popular television series for the ABC in 2011, and for NBC in the United States in 2015. For the first time in his career, Tsiolkas was able to dedicate himself to writing full-time, but the attention paid to the novel also meant that Tsiolkas was now a household name – no longer a cult writer, his opinions are now courted and offered in popular and political publications. Barracuda (2013) follows the social realism of The Slap, and sold similarly well, riding on the back of its extraordinary predecessor. Merciless Gods (2014), a collection of short stories, some new, some previously published, is only recently being taken up by popular critics.
Tsiolkas’s work has become increasingly popular and appealing to readers outside of the academy. Tsiolkas’s works adopt a Modernist attitude to the concept of a utopia – a negative politics which simultaneously draws attention to the insufficiency of the present, a pastoral nostalgia for the past, and a longing for the impossible future to come. This first in-depth study of his entire corpus provides an understanding of Tsiolkas’s position in relation to Modernism, thereby drawing out his points about character, setting and politics, thereby helping us to think about what place his ideas about the individual and the community might have in our reading of contemporary Australia and contemporary world literature
Botanical and zoological macro-remains of the MIS-5a sediment sequence from Sokli (Finland) in 2010
No full textThis dataset provides absolute counts of botanical and zoological macro-remains obtained from the MIS-5a sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010. Counts per taxon are presented against sediment depth (m). The macroremain dataset consists of a total of 29 samples and provides information on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics (Helmens et al., 2021). Macrofossil samples were prepared from subsamples of mainly ca. 10 ml³. The sediment was sieved using a 100 μm mesh under running water and the residue examined using stereo- and high-magnification light microscopes. The analyses were performed in the laboratories of the University of Helsinki, Finland
Pollen and spore counts of the MIS-5a sediment sequence from Sokli (Finland) in 2010
No full textThis dataset provides the pollen and spore counts for the MIS-5a sediment sequence retrieved from Sokli (Finland) in 2010. Counts per taxon are presented against depth (m). Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) and conifer stomata were also counted from the pollen slides and these data are presented alongside the pollen counts. The number of Eucalyptus markers encountered during analysis are also presented ("Added marker"). The pollen dataset provides information on terrestrial and aquatic/telmatic vegetation dynamics (Helmens et al., 2021). A total of 40 samples was analysed, with samples prepared using HCl, KOH, sieving (212 μm mesh), Na-pyrophosphate, acetolysis, and bromoform heavy-liquid treatments and counted using a light microscope (400× magnification). The samples were prepared in the laboratories of University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and counted in the laboratories of University of Helsinki, Finland
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