1. Department of Earth Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA.
2. Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.
3. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
4. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
6. Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, USA.
7. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
8. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
9. Department of History, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey.
10. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.