PAGES 3rd OSM - program

program

Below is the final program.

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Day 0 – Tuesday, 7 July - welcome reception and registration
Day 1 – Wednesday, 8 July
Day 2 – Thursday, 9 July
Day 3 – Friday, 10 July
Day 4 – Saturday, 11 July

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Tuesday, 7 July
18:30	WELCOME RECEPTION and REGISTRATION
Wednesday, 8 July
08:45-09:20	Welcome and Introduction - PAGES Science Plan Nicklas Pisias — Local Organizing Committee, Oregon State University Edward Ray — Oregon State University President Thorsten Kiefer — PAGES Executive Director
Session 1: The Global Hydrological Cycle and Abrupt Changes (PAGES Focus 3) Chair: Pinxian Wang — Tongji University, China
09:20-09:50	OVERVIEW TALK: Larry Peterson — University of Miami, USA "Whither the water? Global patterns of hydrologic change during abrupt climate excursions of the late Quaternary"
09:50-10:10	Yongjin Wang — Nanjing Normal University, China "Links between the East Asian monsoon and bi-polar climates during the last glacial period"
10:10-10:30	Luc Beaufort — CEREGE, CNRS-Aix-Marseille Universités, France "Are the tropics already in the next glacial stage?"
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
Session 2: Reconstructing Climate Modes (PAGES Focus 2) Chair: Heinz Wanner — University of Bern, Switzerland
11:00-11:30	OVERVIEW TALK: Axel Timmermann — University of Hawaii, USA "ENSO: Our sturdy companion through time"
11:30-11:50	Kevin Anchukaitis — LDEO, Columbia University, USA "Tree-ring reconstructions of Australasian monsoon climate variability"
11:50-12:10	Mathias Vuille — University at Albany, USA "Modes of tropical and high-latitude climate variability and their past and present fingerprint in South America"
12:10-12:30	Jürg Luterbacher — University of Bern, Switzerland "European climate dynamics over past centuries and multidecadal circulation-climate relationships"
Session 3: Chronology in Paleoscience (PAGES CCT 1) Chair: Pierre Francus – University of Quebec, Canada
12:30-13:00	OVERVIEW TALK: Joseph Stoner — Oregon State University, USA "Magnetic stratigraphy: Regional and global opportunities for synchronizing paleoclimate records"
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-14:30	Young Scientist Awardee Talk – PAGES Focus 1 Catalina González – University of Bremen, Germany "Tropical salt-marsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events"
14:30-16:00	POSTER SESSION A & B Session A: Climate Forcings (PAGES Focus 1) Session B: Chronology (PAGES CCT 1)
16:00-16:30	Afternoon Break in Poster Hall
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION A & B (cont.)
17:00-18:00	HOT TOPIC 1 The Role of Paleoscience in IPCC Chair: Bette Otto-Bliesner — NCAR, USA Speaker: Jonathan Overpeck - University of Arizona, USA
Thursday, 9 July
Session 4: Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions (PAGES Focus 1) Chair: Jérôme Chappellaz – LGGE, CNRS-UJF, France
09:00-09:30	OVERVIEW TALK: Fortunat Joos — University of Bern, Switzerland "Climate and biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases: Lessons from the past"
09:30-09:50	Eric Galbraith — McGill University, Canada "Replumbing the biological pump in global climate models"
09:50-10:10	Bärbel Hönisch — LDEO, Columbia University, USA "Boron isotope perspective on the CO2 history beyond ice cores"
10:10-10:30	Todd Sowers — Pennsylvania State University, USA "Climate/CH4 interactions on 10-10,000-year timescales"
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
Session 5: Land Cover, Water & Sediment: Regional & Global Synthesis (PAGES Focus 4) Chair: Cathy Whitlock — Montana State University, USA
11:00-11:30	OVERVIEW TALK: David Montgomery — University of Washington, USA "Dirt: The erosion of civilizations"
11:30-11:50	Jennifer Marlon — University of Oregon, USA "Climate and human impacts on biomass burning during past millennia"
11:50-12:10	Eduardo Piovano — CIGES, Argentina "Hydroclimate variability in southern South America since the Last Glacial Maximum"
12:10-12:30	Marie-José Gaillard — Kalmar University, Sweden "Interactions between Holocene land-cover and climate change in Europe"
Session 6: Proxy Development, Calibration & Validation (PAGES CCT 2) Chair: Ricardo Villalba — IANIGLA, Argentina
12:30-13:00	OVERVIEW TALK: Edward Cook — LDEO, Columbia University, USA "Reconstructing climate over the past millennium: The need for replication, calibration and verification from a tree ring perspective"
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-14:30	Young Scientist Awardee Talk – PAGES Focus 2 Martin Tingley – Harvard University, USA "A Bayesian approach to reconstructing climate fields from proxy data"
14:30-16:00	POSTER SESSION C & D Session C: Regional Climate Dynamics (PAGES Focus 2) Session D: Proxy Development, Calibration & Validation (PAGES CCT 2)
16:00-16:30	Afternoon Break in Poster Hall
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION C & D (cont.)
17:00-18:00	HOT TOPIC 2 Past Ocean Acidification: Biogenic Impacts & Climate Feedbacks Chair: Thorsten Kiefer — PAGES IPO, Switzerland James Zachos — University of California, Santa Cruz, USA "Carbon emissions and ocean acidification: A lesson from the past" Ros Rickaby — University of Oxford, UK "Perturbing phytoplankton: Calcifiers in a changing world"
18:30	PUBLIC LECTURE Chair: Andreas Schmittner — Oregon State University, USA Speaker: James Hansen — NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA "Global warming time bomb: The path from science to action"
20:30	MUSIC EVENT BIG DIRT (featuring OSM speaker David Montgomery). at Bomb's Away Cafe, Corvallis — cost $5
Friday, 10 July
Session 7: Regional Climate Reconstructions: Filling the Gaps (PAGES Focus 2) Chair: José Carriquiry — Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico
09:00-09:20	Carlos LeQuesne — Southern University of Chile, Chile "Tree ring records of South America for paleoclimate reconstructions of the last millennium"
09:20-09:40	Robert Mulvaney — British Antarctic Survey, UK "Synthesis of Antarctic climate over the past 40,000 years from ice cores"
09:40-10:00	José Carriquiry — Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico "Climatic reconstructions from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific off Mexico: Geochemical proxies in corals and from deep ocean basins"
10:00-10:20	Atte Korhola — University of Helsinki, Finland "Climate changes in the European Arctic during the last 2k"
10:20-10:30	Caspar Ammann — National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA "The Paleoclimate Reconstruction (PR) Challenge"
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
Session 8: Past Perspectives on Modern Human-Environment Interactions (PAGES Focus 4) Chair: John Dearing — University of Southampton, UK
11:00-11:20	Robert Marchant — University of York, UK "Lessons from the past for sustainable development: A case study using the paleorecord from East Africa"
11:20-11:40	Shonil Bhagwat — University of Oxford, UK "Questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity: Answers from the past"
11:40-12:00	Roland Hall — University of Waterloo, USA "The importance of paleolimnological data for management of water quality and quantity"
12:00-12:20	Sander van der Leeuw — Arizona State University, USA "Pushing the envelope on climate impact studies with archeological data"
Session 9: Modeling (PAGES CCT 3) Chair: Bette Otto-Bliesner — NCAR, USA
12:30-13:00	OVERVIEW TALK: Allegra LeGrande — NASA GISS/Columbia University, USA "On understanding which climate signals are captured in water isotope records"
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-14:30	Young Scientist Awardee Talk – PAGES Focus 3 Yanjun Cai – Chinese Academy of Sciences, China "An absolute-dated and high-resolution Indian Monsoon record over the past 245 ka from Xiaobailong Cave, southwest China"
14:30-16:00	POSTER SESSION E & F Session E: Global-Scale Earth System Dynamics (PAGES Focus 3) Session F: Modeling in Paleoscience (PAGES CCT 3)
16:00-16:30	Afternoon Break in Poster Hall
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION E & F (cont.)
17:00-18:00	HOT TOPIC 3 Transient vs. Rapid Change in the Sahara Chair: Carrie Morrill — NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology, USA Zhengyu Liu — University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA "How much do we know about vegetation feedback in North Africa?" Carrie Morrill and Brahim Damnati — Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco "Past environmental changes during the Holocene in North Africa using lake records"
19:00-23:00	CONFERENCE DINNER
Saturday, 11 July
Session 10: Origin of Interglacial Climate Variability (PAGES Focus 3) Chair: Michael Schulz — University of Bremen, Germany
09:00-09:30	OVERVIEW TALK: Jerry McManus —LDEO, Columbia University, USA "Regional warmth and variability of interglacial climates"
09:30-09:50	Heinz Wanner — University of Bern, Switzerland "Holocene climate change—facts and mysteries"
09:50-10:10	Matthias Prange — University of Bremen, Germany "Modeling approaches to centennial- to millennial-scale Holocene climate variability in the North Atlantic region"
10:10-10:30	Amaelle Landais — LSCE, CNRS-CEA, France "Millennial-scale climate variations during Marine Isotope Stage 5, as recorded in polar ice cores"
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
Session 11: Stability of Polar Ice Sheets & Sea Level (PAGES Focus 1) Chair: Peter Clark — Oregon State University, USA
11:00-11:30	OVERVIEW TALK: Ian Joughin —University of Washington, USA "Observations of ice sheet change"
11:30-11:50	David Pollard — Pennsylvania State University, USA "Modeling Cenozoic variations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet"
11:50-12:10	Ayako Abe-Ouchi — University of Tokyo, Japan "Sea level change at glacial terminations and implications for future projections"
12:10-12:30	Mark Siddall — University of Bristol, UK "Scaling future sea-level change: Lessons from the termination"
12:30-13:00	Plenary Discussion: Future Directions for Paleoscience and PAGES Chair: Bette Otto-Bliesner — NCAR, USA
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-14:30	Young Scientist Awardee Talk – PAGES Focus 4 Mariano Morales – IANIGLA, Argentina "Seven centuries of precipitation variations in the Bolivian Altiplano inferred from the world’s highest-elevation tree-ring records: Environmental and sociocultural implications"
14:30-16:00	POSTER SESSION G & H Session G: Past Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions (PAGES Focus 4) Session H: Data Management (PAGES CCT 4)
16:00-16:30	Afternoon Break in Poster Hall
16:30-17:00	POSTER SESSION G & H (cont.)
17:00-18:00	HOT TOPIC 4 How Abruptly Can Sea Level Rise? Chair: Eric Wolff – British Antarctic Survey, UK Speaker: Richard Alley — Pennsylvania State University, USA