date:Aug 12, 2014
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Our data contradicts the hypothesis that El Nio activity was very reduced 10,000 years ago, and then slowly increased since then, said first author Matthieu Carr, who did the research as a UW postdoctoral researcher and now holds a faculty position at the University of Montpellier in France.
In 2007, while at the UW-based Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Carr accompanied archaeologists to seven sites in coastal Peru. Together they sampled 25-foot-tall piles of sh