{"id":254,"date":"2016-06-04T08:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldandpalaeo.wordpress.com\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:00:07","slug":"ersek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/ersek\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Vasile Ersek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-798\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Vasile-Ersek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My research spans across palaeoclimatology, atmospheric science and palaeopolution. I use stable isotopes and time series analyses to reconstruct past climate changes using cave deposits (speleothems) such as stalagmites and flowstones in places like USA, Iran, Laos, Vietnam and Romania. Using oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water I investigate atmospheric transport of water vapour and the transmission and preservation of the climate signal from precipitation into cave deposits. More recently I began focusing on detecting past pollution events associated with metal smelting in antiquity and medieval times using peat bog deposits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=IsDq9XMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-staff\/e\/vasile-ersek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><a itemprop=\"sameAs\" content=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9730-0007\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9730-0007\" target=\"orcid.widget\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"vertical-align:top;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/orcid_16x16.png\" style=\"width:1em;margin-right:.5em;\" alt=\"ORCID iD icon\">orcid.org\/0000-0001-9730-0007<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research spans across palaeoclimatology, atmospheric science and palaeopolution. I use stable isotopes and time series analyses to reconstruct past climate changes using cave deposits (speleothems) such as stalagmites and flowstones in places like USA, Iran, Laos, Vietnam and Romania. Using oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water I investigate atmospheric transport of water vapour and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/ersek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Vasile Ersek&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}