Plenaries

Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013

Welcome ceremony
9:00-10:00

Land-sea correlation: Pitfalls and remedies
10:00-10:30
Ashok Singhvi
Physical Research Laboratory
Ahmedabad, India


Thursday, 14 Feb 2013

Extending baseline hydrology from decades to centuries:
Implications for water resource engineering
9:00-9:30
David Sauchyn
Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative
University of Regina, Canada

State of the Himalayan cryosphere
9:30-10:00 
Anil Kulkarni
Divecha Center for Climate Change
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Rivers and deltas in the Anthropocene
10:00-10:30
James Syvitski
Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
& Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Public lecture - Climate Change and implications for global society
19:00
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Director-General of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India
& Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Venue: The Cardium, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula

 

Friday, 15 Feb 2013

Indo-Pacific climate during the Common Era:
New perspectives from land and sea
9:00-9:30
Jessica E. Tierney
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

Tipping points in biogeophysics
9:30-10:00
Martin Claussen
Max-Planck-Institut for Meteorology
Hamburg, Germany

Selected topics on ocean dynamics in the wider context of climate variability and global sustainability
10:00-10:30
Martin Visbeck
Co-chair of WCRP's Climate Variability and Predictability project (CLIVAR)
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Kiel, Germany

Saturday, 16 Feb 2013

Food economics in (pre-)historical times
16:00-16:30 
Martin Jones
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge, UK

Climate change and biodiversity
16:30-17:00 
Kathy Willis
Biodiversity Institute of Oxford
University of Oxford, UK 

Plenary discussion "Future Earth"
17:00-17:45

Closing
17:45-18:00