Jenny McElwain Attends Proxy Integration Project (CO2-PIP) Workshop

Jenny McElwain took part in a two day workshop in June 2022 (4^th to 7^th) held by the CO2-PIP project in Lake Tahoe California. CO2-PIP is a new community project for quantifying atmospheric CO₂ over the Phanerozoic. It is led by Isabel Montañez, UC Davis, Dana Royer, Wesleyan University, Daniel Breecker, University of Utah; Gabriel Bowen, University of Texas and Bärbel Hönisch, Columbia University and funded by the National Science Foundation.

The project aims to modernize and standardize published proxy CO₂ records and build on successful community research of paleo-co2.org, which focused on the Cenozoic. Jenny will actively contribute to the CO2-PIP project by making raw data from published stomatal-based proxy CO₂ records from  the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic available following F.A.I.R. principles, by updating old proxy CO₂ records that require new statistical modelling approaches (forward proxy modelling) and though the co-development of education material on atmospheric evolution and the carbon cycle.