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Session A, B, C, D & E – Monday, 6 July


Session A: Reconstructing & Understanding Climate Forcings & Feedbacks (PAGES Focus 1)
Converner: Bette Otto-Bliesner — NCAR, USA

	Catalina González – Germany "Tropical salt-marsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events"
	Alberto Reyes – Canada "The response of permafrost to last interglacial warming constrains projections of future thaw"
	Jeremy Shakun – USA "Forcing of deglacial climate change and implications for greenhouse warming"
	Akitomo Yamamoto – Japan "Modeling of methane bubbles released from sea-floor gas hydrate"

Session B: Regional Climate Dynamics - Reconstruction & Modeling (PAGES Focus 2)
Chairs: Mohammed Umer – Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

	Elizabeth Farmer – UK "Surface and thermocline records of Mg/Ca derived temperatures in the Holocene subpolar North Atlantic"
	Yao Liu – USA "Antiquity and turnover of North American terrestrial ecosystems since the Last Glacial Maximum"
	Raphael Neukom – Switzerland "Multiproxy climate field reconstructions for southern South America back to AD 1000"
	Martin Tingley – USA "A Bayesian approach to reconstructing climate fields from proxy data"

Session C: Chronology (PAGES CCT 1)
Chair: Pierre Francus — University of Quebec, Canada

Session D: Proxy Development, Calibration & Validation (PAGES CCT 2)
Chair: Ricardo Villalba — IANIGLA, Argentina

Session E: Modeling Past Changes (PAGES CCT 3)
Chair: Michael Schulz — University of Bremen, Germany

	Fanny Adloff – Germany "Modelling changes in eastern Mediterranean ocean climate for the early Holocene"
	Steven Phipps – Australia "Understanding ENSO dynamics through the exploration of past climates"

Session F & G – Tuesday, 7 July

Session F: Earth System Dynamics - Global-Scale Processes & Linkages (PAGES Focus 3)
Chair: Peter Kershaw — Monash University, Australia

	Jessica Tierney – USA "Coherence between the Asian monsoon and Indonesian hydrology during the past two millennia"
	Andreas Born – Norway "The 8k event: abrupt transition of the subpolar gyre towards a modern North Atlantic circulation"
	Yanjun Cai – China "An absolute-dated and high-resolution Indian Monsoon record over the past 245 kyr from Xiaobailong Cave, southwest China"
	Björn Machalett – Germany "Long term seasonality changes and abrupt climate shifts recorded in highly resolved dust/loess sequences across Eurasia"

Session G: Past Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions (PAGES Focus 4)
Chair: John Dearing — University of Southampton, UK

	Megan Walsh – USA "Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Holocene fire and vegetation history of the Willamette Valley, northwest Oregon and southwest Washington"
	Tyhra Carolyn Kumasi – Ghana "Land cover change in the Barekese River Basin of Ghana"
	Mariano Morales – Argentina "Seven centuries of precipitation variations in the Bolivian Altiplano inferred from the world’s highest-elevation tree-ring records: Environmental and sociocultural implications"
	Robert Hatfield – Canada "Sediment sourcing and environmental reconstruction using particle size-specific magnetic fingerprinting: Bassenthwaite Lake, UK"

Hot topics & overview talks

	Opportunities, proposals, grants: Tips from the funders. Paul Filmer from US National Science Foundation.
	Publishing your work: Tips from the editors. Alicia Newton from Nature Geoscience and Thorsten Kiefer from Climate of the Past.
	Data management Speaker: David Anderson – NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, USA
	Communicating scientific results Speaker: Gavin Schmidt (RealClimate.org) — NASA, USA