Claire is currently developing a proxy for rainfall over the last 40,000 years, using stalagmites, from caves in Sulawesi Indonesia. This proxy tells us how the Indo-Australian monsoon has changed over this time, and allows us to look at connections between our region, and the rest of the climate system.

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