The climate of the next millennia in the perspective of abrupt climate change during the late pleistocene - PAGES/DEKLIM Conference

Convenors: Frank Sirocko, Jerry McManus, Martin Claussen, Christoph Kull
Date: 7 March - 10 March, 2005
Location: Mainz, Germany

The new DEKLIM-PAGES conference programm.pdf

Call for papers
'The climate of the past is the key to understanding the climate of the future'. Is this often used statement truly correct for the next two millennia? The conference will examine past records of abrupt climate change and discuss if the processes that caused past abrupt change are indeed relevant for the Holocene and predicted climate evolution. Keynote lectures on the mechanisms that dominated past climate evolution will be followed by sessions (talks and posters) on long (0-3 Ma), medium (0-150 ka) and very short (Holocene and last millennium) time scales. Discussions are intended to separate processes unique to the past from those that indeed have the potential to effect global climate during the next millennia. The conference is sponsored by the German DEKLIM program (www.deklim.de) and represents a German contribution to PAGES. We hope to welcome you in Mainz (50 minutes from Frankfurt International Airport).

Monday, 7 March 2005

10:00 DEKLIM intern meetings,
12:00 Registration

01:00 Welcome by DEKLIM, PAGES and University officials

01:15 Keynote Lectures
Marie-France Loutre Insolation and orbital forcing as a driver of climate change
Bernd Kromer Solar Forcing of global climate during the Holocene
Thomas Stocker Extending Vostok back in time: Greenhouse gas records of the EPICA Dome C ice core
Hans Graf Volcanism (title to be named)
Stefan Rahmstorf Ocean circulation change as a mechanism for abrupt climate change
Michael Sarnthein The role of ocean gateways for Pleistocence climate change
Julie Brigham-Grette Arctic Interglacials and times of transition: lessons from the past for the high latitude future
not confirmed yet ENSO, low latitudes
Peter de Menocal Anthropology and climate (title to be named)

Tuesday, 8 March

morning: Long continuous Pleistocene records chair Chronis Tzedakis
afternoon: High resolution records of past interglacials, chair Jerome Chappellaz
evening: Public Lecture (in German)

Wednesday, 9 March

morning: DO-events and the thermohaline circulation chair not confirmed yet
afternoon: Holocene and the past millennium chair not confirmed yet
evening: Conference dinner

Thursday, 10 March

Keynote:
Andre Berger: Is the Holocene/Anthropocene going to be exceptionally long?

Discussion in four working groups (led by chair of the four sessions)
Plenary Discussion
12:00 End of conference

01:00 Excursion
stop 1: Holocene maar sediments, visit of freeze coring on lake Schalkenmehren, introduction into maar hydrology
stop 2: Dry maar lake sediments, visit of operating drilling rig West of Hoher List
stop 3: Exhibition of 100 m of cores (20-140 ka) on the site of drilling

Accommodation is on “Burg Stahleck”, a beautiful medieval castle over the Rhine valley.

Friday, 11 March

stop 1: West Eifel volcanism
stop 2: East Eifel volcanism
stop 2: Lake Laach
stop 3: Long Pleistocene sequences of loess and tephra on the Rhine terraces

The excursion will be back in Mainz train station at 3 pm on Friday afternoon (trains to Frankfurt airport go every 30 minutes and take 14 minutes, thus plan to reach the airport at 4 pm.

Saturday, 12 March

INQUA PALCOMM project meeting ‘Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Records from the Southern Hemisphere at Orbital and Sub-Orbital Scales’, contact Peter Kershaw at Peter.Kershaw@arts.monash.edu.au

Conference rooms are available for other meetings on request.

Registration

The registration form can be downloaded from http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/sedi/en/index.html.

Further information by DEKLIM-EEM secretary Saskia Rudert (email: rudert@uni-mainz.de).

Deadline for registration is 31 October 2004.

Costs

Conference fees, including abstract volume, 75 Euro, 35 Euro for students.

Conference Dinner (Wednesday evening) 30 Euro

Excursion including accommodation (double rooms, few single rooms) 50 Euro

Cost for accommodation are handled directly by the hotels

There is a limited amount of money available from DEKLIM to finance the participation of students, and very limited resources for scientists from developing countries. If you want to apply for support, please put in a formal request. The decision on support will be done in the first week of January by the session convenors and organising committee after all abstracts have arrived by the end of November.

Please pay by invoice until 28 February 2005 to
bank account: Mainzer Volksbank
account number: 642 950 018
bank sorting code: 551 900 00
attention of: Saskia Rudert
keyword: Deklim/Pages 2005

or in cash (Euro only) at the registration desk in Mainz.


Deadline for abstract submission is 10 January 2004.

Abstracts should be no more than 1 page of text and 1 page of figures. Please use Arial Font 12, 2 cm space top, bottom, left, right. Put references of your own relevant papers at the end of the text. The figures should be done also in Arial, Font 12. Please send the ready pdf of two pages, not more. An example for the abstracts can be found on the website.

Proceedings Volume

There will be no Proceedings Volume. However, if authors are interested we could discuss this for selected papers and themes during the conference.

We look forward to welcoming you in Mainz,
Frank, Jerry, Martin and Christoph

Adresses of convenors and keynote speakers:
sirocko@uni-mainz.de
jmcmanus@whoi.edu
claussen@pik-potsdam.de
christoph.kull@pages.unibe.ch
berger@astr.ucl.ac.be
bkromer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de
stocker@climate.unibe.ch
graf@dkrz.de
rahmstorf@pik-potsdam.de
ms@gpi.uni-kiel.de
juliebg@geo.umass.edu
peter@ldeo.columbia.edu
loutre@astr.ucl.ac.be
haug@gfz-potsdam.de
P.Tzedakis@geog.leeds.ac.uk
jerome@glaciog.grenet.fr