User talk:Easleyma

This user is a student editor in Miami_University/Limnology_(Fall_2020) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Review for paleolimnology additions

Hi Easleyma, great work on adding to the Paleolimnology page! I have a few suggestions below that I hope will improve your additions.

Anthropogenic eutrophication, acidification, and climate change

I suggest removing the 'Despite the growing interest ... ,' phrase and just starting the new paragraph with 'Recent studies in Arctic...'. It's a bit more to the point and succinct.

Paleoclimate proxies

I suggest adding the clause 'In paleolimnology, ...' before the 'proxy data refers to preserved...' because this example is pretty specific to paleolimnology. There are proxy data in other scientific disciplines as well and the clause will help distinguish this example of proxy data from others.
excellent work expanding upon the pollen records, diatoms, and organic matter subsections!!

I recommend hyperlinking to a few more pages that are specific in the subsections. (e.g. link to chrysophytes, organic matter, non-vascular plant, angiosperms, etc...).
in general, this is very good writing but at times can be quite a lot of information to digest at once. I'd recommend adding some figures to the page to help readers picture what the text is referencing. You could add a sediment core profile (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016._Lake_sediment_core._Forlorn_Lakes._Gifford_Pinchot_National_Forest,_Washington._(38853497655).jpg) or pollen record (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trout_Lake_pollen_temperature_chart_1.svg) or chironomid or delta N, C calculations.

Great work on this article and let me know if you have any questions / concerns about my suggestions Jayzlimno (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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		Great work adding to the Paleoloimnology page! Jayzlimno (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]