{"id":495,"date":"2020-10-20T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/?p=495"},"modified":"2022-07-27T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T00:17:34","slug":"21-a-history-of-paleolimnology-part3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/21-a-history-of-paleolimnology-part3\/","title":{"rendered":"21: A History of Paleolimnology (Part 3: The Road to Mordor)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others&#8221; &#8211; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the third <a href=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/all-episodes\/\">episode<\/a> of our series on the <em>History of Paleolimnolog<\/em>y we discuss how paleolimnology rapidly matured from a qualitative to a quantitative discipline. A transformation driven largely by advances in the methods used to date sediments combined with the&nbsp; increasing availability of computing power and multivariate statistics. Together these developments made paleolimnology capable of addressing a major environmental issue of the 1970s and 1980s, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acid_rain\">acid rain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In paleolimnology, developing reliable chronologies for sediment sequences is essential to interpret changes through time. However, as we\u2019ve discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/03-dating-struggles\/\">before<\/a>, prior to the 1970s, it was only possible to obtain reliable dates for lakes with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Varve\">varved sediments<\/a>, or on timescales of several thousand years using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radiocarbon_dating\">radiocarbon analyses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few key milestones in the analysis of varved lake sediments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By the early 20th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_De_Geer\">Gerard De Geer<\/a> and other Swedish researchers had recognized the similarity between varves and tree rings<\/li><li>Nipkow (1927) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research-collection.ethz.ch\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11850\/135712\/1\/eth-21704-01.pdf\">PhD thesis on diatoms within the varves from Lake Z\u00fcrich<br><\/a><em>The \u2018modernness\u2019 of this thesis shocked us both, we have revised our nomination for the first modern paleolimnologist!<\/em><\/li><li>Bradley (1931) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajsonline.org\/content\/s5-22\/130\/318\">Nonglacial marine varves<\/a><\/li><li>Tippett (1964) &#8211;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdnsciencepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/b64-168\">The annual nature of varves in Little Round Lake (Ontario)<\/a><\/li><li>1970s-1980s &#8211; Freeze coring techniques become more common and \u201ctape peel\u201d methods emerge to describe sub-annual changes in sediments<\/li><li>Davidson (1988) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;q=A+modified+tape-peel+technique+for+preparing+permanent+qualitative+microfossil+slides.&amp;btnG=\">A tape-peel technique for preparing permanent slides<\/a><\/li><li>Simola et al. (1990) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/23725364?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Seasonal dynamics of planktonic diatoms over 418 years<\/a>!<\/li><li>Progress continues from scotch tape to image analysis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/varves-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Varves visible in a sediment core\" class=\"wp-image-498\" width=\"151\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/varves-rotated.jpg 483w, https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/varves-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><figcaption>Varves visible in a sediment core<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>However, not all lakes have varves. When varves are not present in the lake(s) of interest, chronological information can be obtained from radioisotopic analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few key milestones in the radioisotopic dating of lake sediments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Arnold and Libby (1949) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1677049?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\">First use of carbon-14 for dating purposes<\/a> (as <sup>14<\/sup>C is not suitable for producing precise dates for samples that are only a few hundred years old, other radioisotopes are required to study changes since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_Revolution\">Industrial Revolution<\/a>)<\/li><li>Krishnaswamy and Lal (1971) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/0012821X71902020\">First use of <sup>210<\/sup>Pb to date lake sediments<\/a><\/li><li>Robbins and Edgington (1975) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/0016703775901982\">The Constant Initial Concentration (CIC) model<\/a><\/li><li>Appleby and Oldfield (1978) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0341816278800022\">The Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) model<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By the early-1980s, paleolimnological field, laboratory and dating techniques were ready to be applied to the burning environmental questions surrounding acid rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relationship between acid rain and atmospheric pollution had been recognised by Robert Smith in the 1850s in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/airrainbeginning00smitiala\">studies of Manchester, England<\/a>. However, acid rain didn\u2019t emerge as an issue of concern for the general public of North America until the 1970s. This was partly due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-1818-4_20\">series of reports<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/hubbardbrook.org\/\">Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest<\/a> in New Hampshire demonstrating the harmful environmental effects of acidic deposition. By the 1980s, acid rain was a highly political issue, with fundamental disagreements between environmentalists and industrial advocates regarding the baseline conditions of acidified lakes, and&nbsp; whether they were naturally acidic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"723\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/acidRainCartoon.jpg\" alt=\"Cartoon illustrating political nature of the acid rain debates\" class=\"wp-image-501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/acidRainCartoon.jpg 723w, https:\/\/ajeziorski.ca\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/acidRainCartoon-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption>Cartoon depicting US president <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\">Ronald Reagan<\/a> illustrates the political nature of the acid rain debates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Long-term perspectives to answer questions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Had lakes acidified?<\/li><li>If so, when and by how much? What was the cause?<\/li><li>Had lakes lost fish populations due to acidification?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to ending the debates, was developing a method to reconstruct past pH levels with a high degree of certainty. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PH\">the pH function was only invented in 1909<\/a> (and finalised in 1924), so there are no long-term records of direct measurements that pre-date industrialisation. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diatom\">diatoms<\/a> had already been identified as strong biological indicators and attempts to quantify diatom ecology with respect to pH began in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few milestones from relating diatom communities to lakewater pH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Hustedt (1937-1939) &#8211; pH categories (acidobiontic\/acidiophilic\/indifferent\/alkalaphilous\/alkalabiontic)<\/li><li>Nygaard (1956) &#8211; Diatom indexes<ul><li>Index \u03b1 = (acid units) \/ (alkaline units)<\/li><li>Index \u03c9 = (acid units) \/ # acid species<\/li><li>Index \u03b5 = (alkaline units) \/ # alkaline species<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Meril\u00e4inen (1967) &#8211; Linear regression analysis between log Index \u03b1 and measured pH<\/li><li>Stockner (1972) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/03680770.1972.11899572\">Attempts to relate diatom communities to eutrophication<\/a><\/li><li>The nature of the multivariate diatom datasets began to attract statisticians to the problem<\/li><li>Charles (1985) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.2307\/1940561?casa_token=VuEWyJXmb7MAAAAA:B49FvKndy3D9xJbydu6Nq5cEdY2farmhVEq39CA3NDh7WeupSrl0_oTXNDw-vklpLWWBbxB0UpDpsw\">A surface sediment diatom calibration set relating diatom assemblages to lakewater characteristics in 38 Adirondack lakes<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By the mid-1980s, the various threads we\u2019ve discussed so far (coring equipment, microfossil taxonomy, dating methods, statistical approaches, etc) were pulled together in major paleolimnological investigations designed to provide clear answers to the acid rain questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Paleoecological Investigations of Recent Lake Acidification (PIRLA)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-94-009-3385-9_36\">Charles and Whitehead (1986)<\/a><\/li><li>Surface Water Acidification Project (SWAP) Palaeolimnology Programme <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;q=The+Surface+Water+Acidification+Project+%28SWAP%29+Palaeolimnology+Programme.&amp;btnG=\">Battarbee and Renberg (1990)<\/a><\/li><li>PIRLA II <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;q=The+PIRLA+II+Project%3A+Regional+assessment+of+lake+acidification+trends&amp;btnG=\">Charles and Smol (1990)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdnsciencepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/f92-015\">First use of \u2018Top-Bottom\u2019 approach for regional snapshot of change<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Collectively, this work (along with many smaller studies) were able to definitively say that \u201cYes, lakes in softwater regions had acidified\u201d. The amount they had acidified and the timing varied, but were closely related to local geology, wind patterns and proximity to industrial sources of SO<sub>2<\/sub> and NO<sub>X<\/sub> emissions, and there had been widespread ecological consequences, including the loss of fish populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these answers in hand, the political response was rapid. For example, in the USA amendments were made to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clean_Air_Act_of_1963#Clean_Air_Act_Amendments_of_1990\">Clean Air Act<\/a> in 1990 to better control acid deposition. Less than two decades after the first published attempt to use <sup>210<\/sup>Pb to date lake sediments, paleolimnology had transformed into a quantitative discipline pivotal in addressing acid rain. 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