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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I The Journey -- 2 First Lessons in Global Change -- 2.1 Youth Adventures -- 2.2 Beginning Biological Lessons -- 2.3 Broadening My Horizons -- 2.4 Crater Lake Turning Point -- 2.5 Storm of a Century -- 2.6 The Deep Sea PhD -- 2.7 Sea Legs and Tsunami -- 2.8 Around the World in 180 days -- References -- 3 Alaskan Lessons -- 3.1 Earthquake and Ignored Geologic Warnings -- 3.2 Looking for Offshore Gold -- 3.3 Hard and Humorous Logistics Lessons -- 3.4 Mercury Pollution -- 3.5 Encounters with Bear and Walrus -- 3.6 Assessing Hazards for Petroleum Development -- 3.7 Risks at Sea and on Shore -- 3.8 Gas in the Sea Bottom -- 3.9 Ships Crew-The Good and the Bad -- 3.10 Budget Cuts and Last Cruises -- 3.11 A Ship with no Captain -- References -- 4 Global Lessons -- 4.1 Crater Lake and Volcanic Hazards -- 4.2 A Flying Boat at Crater Lake -- 4.3 Politics and Science -- 4.4 Tiller Whales -- 4.5 Disappearing Walrus -- 4.6 Mediterranean Sea -- 4.7 Gulf of Mexico -- 4.8 Gulf of Mexico Hazards -- 4.9 Lake Baikal Russia -- 4.10 Russian Adventures -- 4.11 Corsica and Var France -- 4.12 Antarctic Natural World -- 4.13 Earthquakes and Hazards -- 4.14 New Millennium Studies -- References -- Part II Earth in Peril -- 5 Climate Change Patterns -- 5.1 Climate and Global Warming Background -- 5.2 Increased Greenhouse Gases -- 5.3 Acid Ocean -- 5.4 Rising Ocean Temperature and Sea Level -- 5.5 Diminishing Polar Ice, Mountain Glaciers, Permafrost -- 5.6 Past 20 years of Record-Breaking Temperatures -- 5.7 Worse Extreme Weather Events -- 5.8 Increasing Extinction Rates -- 5.9 Natural Versus Human-Caused Climate Change -- 5.10 Message to Global Warming Deniers and Skeptics -- References -- 6 Other Global Changes.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Lake Shoreline Evidence of Hydrologic Conditions in the Southern Basin and Range Province During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Paleoclimatic and Archaeological Implications -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Impetus -- 1.2 Background -- 1.2.1 Regional Overview -- 1.2.2 Lake Dimensions and Their Hydrologic Significance -- 1.2.3 Limitations of Shoreline Records -- 1.2.4 Lake-Level Reconstruction from Shoreline Landforms -- 1.3 Investigations in the Willcox Basin -- 1.3.1 Previous Investigations -- 1.4 Current Investigations -- 1.4.1 Methods -- 1.4.1.1 Mapping and Stratigraphy -- 1.4.1.2 Radiocarbon Dating -- 1.4.2 Results and Discussion -- 1.4.2.1 Lithostratigraphy -- 1.4.2.2 Radiocarbon Dating -- 1.5 Synopses of Southern Basin and Range Lake-Level Records -- 1.5.1 Paleolake Estancia -- 1.5.2 Paleolake San Agustin -- 1.5.3 Paleolake Cloverdale -- 1.5.4 Paleolake Cochise -- 1.6 Paleohydrologic Records from the Southern Basin and Range and Their Climatic Implications -- 1.7 Archaeological Implications of Shoreline Chronologies -- 1.7.1 Local -- 1.7.2 Regional -- 1.8 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 2 Post-Mazama River Terraces and Human Occupation Along the North Umpqua River Oregon -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Study Area -- 2.3 Methods -- 2.4 Terrace Formation -- 2.4.1 Stratigraphic Units -- 2.4.2 Structure and Age of the Terraces -- 2.5 Human Occupation -- 2.5.1 Prior Geoarchaeological Studies on the North Umpqua River -- 2.6 Discussion -- 2.6.1 Provisional Chronology -- 2.6.2 Mechanisms for Terrace Formation -- 2.7 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 3 Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Optimal Maize Field Location in the Mt. Trumbull Region NW Arizona USA -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Key Objectives of the Work -- 3.2 Background.

1. The spectre of catastrophe -- 2. Grief will be our companion -- 3. Past, present and future temporalities -- 4. More than human, more than nature -- 5. Practising hope -- 6. Rethinking agriculture, rethinking Anthropocene -- 7. Living with weeds -- 8. Governing the ungovernable? -- 9. Beyond fortress and sprawl : retrofitting cities, suburbs and households -- 10. The Anthropoceneans.

Frontmatter --Inhalt --Danksagung --1 Einleitung --2 Mensch-Tier-Natur in (inter-)disziplinären Kontexten --3 MenschenTiereNaturenKulturen --4 Multispezies-Ethnographie (ME) --5 Forschungsdesign einer Multispezies-Ethnographie --6 Gütekriterien von Multispezies-Forschung --7 Folgerung --Literaturverzeichnis

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