Scientific Program

Program Information for the Media

The timetable below provides information about all the sessions and speakers at the conference. Click on the speaker’s name for biographical notes, abstracts and papers.

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AFRICA
Ethiopia
Mohammed Umer
Climate Change, Human Evolution and Later Adaptation in the Horn of Africa and the Surrounding Regions: Potential for Long Climate Record In Ethiopia
15:00 - 15:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 2


AMERICAS
Argentina
Ricardo Villalba
Long-term Variability in Tropical and High-latitude Circulation Modes of Climate in the Americas
10:00 - 10:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

USA
Michael Mann
Insights from Comparing Empirically-estimated and Modeled Climate Change in Past Centuries
9:00 - 9:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1
Panel Discussion — Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Dmitry Sonechkin (Moderator: Heinz Wanner)
14:00 - 15:00, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

Bette Otto-Bliesner
Climate Sensitivity Derived from PMIP-2 Model-Data Intercomparisons for the Last Glacial Maximum and Mid-Holocene
11:30 - 12:00, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

Charles Redman
Human Impacts on Ancient Environments
9:00 - 9:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 2

Frank Hole
Sustainability in the Period of Agriculture: The Near Eastern Case
10:00 - 10:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 2

Paul Mayewski
Reconstructing the Last 2,000 Years of Climate through ICARA (Ice-core Climate Archive Recovery Activity)
11:30 - 12:00, Thursday 11 August, Session 3

Stephen Burns
The Tropics and Rapid Climate Change - Records of Changes in Rainfall and Atmospheric Circulation from Speleothems
14:30 - 15:00, Thursday 11 August, Session 3

Gavin Schmidt
The Thermohaline Circulation in Past, Present and Future Climate
15:30 - 16:00, Thursday 11 August, Session 3
Panel Discussion — Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Dmitry Sonechkin (Moderator: Heinz Wanner)
14:00 - 15:00, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

Gifford Miller
Detecting Human Impacts on the Flora, Fauna, and Summer Monsoon of Pleistocene Australia
11:00 - 11:30, Friday 12 August, Session 4

Julie Brigham-Grette
Plenary Discussion: PAGES Future Direction
14:00-16.00, Friday 12 August


ASIA
China
Jiayang Li
Welcome Lecture
8:30 - 9:00, Wednesday 10 August

Zhongli Ding
Welcome Lecture
8:30 - 9:00, Wednesday 10 August

Dongsheng Liu
Welcome Lecture
8:30 - 9:00, Wednesday 10 August
Plenary Discussion: PAGES Future Direction
14:00-16.00, Friday 12 August

Zhimin Jian
Millennial-centennial-scale Climate Variability of the Low Latitude Western Pacific during the Late Quaternary
9:30 - 10:00, Friday 12 August, Session 4

Zhisheng An
The Evolutional Process of Asian Dust and its Role for the Earth System in the Past
10:00 - 10:30, Friday 12 August, Session 4

India
Ashok Singhvi
Monsoon and Man in the Indian Sub-Continent
11:30 - 12:00, Friday 12 August, Session 4


AUSTRALASIA
Australia
Patrick De Deckker
The Role of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on Global Climate Change during the Quaternary
9:00 - 9:30, Friday 12 August, Session 4

New Zealand
James Shulmeister
Interhemispheric Linkages in Climate Change: Paleo-perspectives on Modern Problems
9:30 - 10:00, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1


EUROPE
Czech Republic
Rudolf Brázdil
Human Impacts on Climate Anomalies and Weather Disasters during the Past Millennium in Central Europe: Learning from the Past
9:30 - 10:00, Thursday 11 August, Session 2

France
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Dynamics of Global Climate and Water Cycle Changes: Interest of Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions
11:00 - 11:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

Germany
Michael Schulz
Past Climate Variability at Centennial-to-millennial Timescales: Does it Matter for Predicting Future Climate Change?
12:00 - 12:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 1

Hubertus Fischer
Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Ice Core Paleoperspective
11:00 - 11:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 3

Ralph Schneider
From Milankovitch to Rapid Climate Change, IMAGES Research
15:00 - 15:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 3

Russia
Olga Solomina
Climatic events and tendencies in the North-West Pacific recorded by trees and glaciers during the last 400 years
14:00 - 14:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 3

Switzerland
Thorsten Kiefer
Welcome Lecture
8:30 - 9:00, Wednesday 10 August

UK
John Dearing
Human-Environment Interactions: Past, Present and Future
15:30 - 16:00, Wednesday 10 August, Session 2

Rick Battarbee
Paleolimnology, Pollution and Climate Change
16:00 - 16:30, Wednesday 10 August, Session 2

Sandy Harrison
Towards Modeling the Ice-core Record of Atmospheric Trace-gas and Aerosol Variations between Glacial and Interglacial Times
12:00 - 12:30, Thursday 11 August, Session 3