abstracts

	Jay Alder — "Investigating multi-decadal scale changes in ENSO variability using a coupled A/OGCM"
	Lewis Collins — "A high-resolution reconstruction of late Quaternary sea-ice history in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean"
	Mary Gagen — "Changes in plant water use efficiency over the recent past reconstructed using palaeo plant records from the boreal forest"
	Isabelle Gil — "Comparison of diatom records of the Heinrich Event 1 in the Western North Atlantic"
	Catalina González — "Tropical salt-marsh evidence for rapid sea-level changes associated with Heinrich events"
	Meredith Hastings — "Evaluating sources and chemistry changes based on the isotopes of atmospheric nitrate in ice cores"
	Thomas Laepple — "The seasonal cycle as template for climate variability on astronomical time scales"
	Francis Mani — "δ15N measurements of nitrogen gas trapped in ice cores during Marine Isotopic Stage 3 at Berkner Island, Antarctica"
	Joe Melton — "Abrupt climate transitions and the δ13CH4 record: New measurements and old corrections"
	Logan Mitchell — "New high-precision, high-resolution records of atmospheric methane from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores: AD 1000 – present"
	Mirjam Pfeiffer — "Response of terrestrial N2O and NOx emissions to abrupt climate change events"
	Alberto Reyes — "The response of permafrost to last interglacial warming constrains projections of future thaw"
	Jeremy Shakun — "Forcing of deglacial climate change and implications for greenhouse warming"
	Liang-Jian Shiau — "A high-resolution sea surface temperature record off the southeastern Papua New Guinea, tropical western Pacific of the past 320,000 years"
	Jun Tian — "East Asian winter monsoon maxima during the last glacial cycle: Insights from a latitudinal sea-surface temperature gradient across the South China Sea"
	Vidya Varma — "Solar activity: A reason for south westerly wind shift during the late Holocene?"
	Yi Wang — "The significance of northern peatlands in global carbon systems during the Holocene"
	Akitomo Yamamoto — "Modeling of methane bubbles released from sea-floor gas hydrate"

	Jessica Conroy — "Variable oceanic teleconnections to western North American drought over the last 1200 years"
	Pedro DiNezio — "Is El Niño an appropriate analogue for Tropical Pacific Climate Change?"
	Elizabeth Farmer — "Surface and thermocline records of Mg/Ca derived temperatures in the Holocene subpolar North Atlantic"
	Claudia Fensterer — "Climate variability in the Caribbean area during the last 15.3 ka reconstructed from speleothems from western Cuba "
	María Eugenia Ferrero — "Identifying spatial and temporal variations in tree growth within subtropical montane forests in South America"
	Joelle Gergis — "Reconstructing pre-20th century temperature, rainfall and pressure for the Australian region using palaeo, documentary and early instrumental data"
	Cyril Giry — "Temperature and hydrologic variability in the Holocene documented in corals from the Southern Caribbean Sea "
	Marina Gurskaya — "Continentality of climate in tree ring chronologies from Western Siberia"
	Franz Gunther Kuglitsch — "Heat wave changes in the Mediterranean Region since 1900"
	Yao Liu — "Antiquity and turnover of North American terrestrial ecosystems since the Last Glacial Maximum"
	Mariano H. Masiokas — "520 years of glacier mass balance proxy records in NW Patagonia reconstructed from instrumental climate data and tree-ring width series"
	Raphael Neukom — "Multiproxy climate field reconstructions for southern South America back to AD 1000"
	Intan Nurhati — "Coral records of late 20th century warming and freshening in the central tropical Pacific"
	Lynda Petherick — "High resolution record of the Last Glacial Maximum in eastern Australia"
	Nick Rackebrandt — "An extraordinary diatom deposition event in the Pleistocene subtropical South Atlantic"
	Martin Tingley — "A Bayesian approach to reconstructing climate fields from proxy data"
	Sarah Truebe — "The progression of precipitation: A scale analysis of controls on oxygen isotope variability in caves of the Southwest"
	Rocío Urrutia — "Multi-century tree-ring reconstruction of Maule river annual streamflow in South-Central Chile"
	Kirstin Werner — "Variability of Late Holocene Atlantic Water advection on the West Spitsbergen continental margin "
	Henry Wu — "Evaluating sea surface temperature variability using replicated Porites lobata coral Sr/Ca records from Clipperton Atoll (AD 1994-1894)"

	Patrick Applegate — "Extracting moraine ages from statistical distributions of cosmogenic exposure dates (YSM POSTER PRIZE)"
	Lewis Collins — "The first high-resolution age-model for Southern Ocean glacial sediments south of the Antarctic Polar Front"
	Shaun Marcott — "A latest Pleistocene and Holocene chronology of alpine glaciation for the western United States"
	Yusuke Suganuma — "Delayed acquisition of paleomagnetic record in marine sediments inferred from offset Be-10 flux anomaly"

	Kevin Anchukaitis — "Tropical cloud forest dendroclimatology and the demise of the Monteverde Golden Toad"
	Jonathan Barichivich — "Identifying changing climate responses of boreal forest trees in northwestern Canada: An integrated empirical and process-based approach"
	Duncan Christie — "Aridity changes in the Temperate-Mediterranean transition of the Andes since A.D. 1346 reconstructed from Austrocedrus chilensis tree-rings"
	Caroline Cleroux — "Evidence for calcification depth change of G. truncatulinoides between deglaciation and the Holocene – or why to be careful in transposing modern observations back in time (YSM POSTER PRIZE)"
	Caroline Cleroux — "Monitor the past subsurface Subtropical Cells activity by upper ocean temperature and salinity gradients reconstruction"
	Michael Davis — "Repeat temperature measurements in boreholes: Validating the connection between ground and air temperature change"
	Jennifer Fehrenbacher — "Foraminiferal Mg/Ca as a proxy for deep-sea carbonate ion concentration"
	Julie Ferguson — "Glacial seasonal-resolution sea surface temperature records from paired δ18O and Mg/Ca in limpet shells from Gibraltar"
	Robert Hatfield — "The particle size-specific nature of magnetic assemblages: implications for sediment tracing and palaeo-environmental reconstruction."
	Vladimir Matskovsky — "Exploring the climatic signal in pine ring-width chronologies at high elevation sites in the Northern Caucasus, Russia"
	Nancy Grumet Prouty — "Coral proxy record of reduced groundwater input from Molokai, Hawaii"
	Amanda Robertson — "Genomic-level DNA sequence data as a testable proxy for paleo-environmental reconstructions and species responses to historical global change"
	Jessica Vanstone — "Potential of multiple dendroclimatic proxies for the Prairies?"
	Branwen Williams — "Proxy records from western tropical Pacific black corals and soft corals"

	Fanny Adloff — "Modelling changes in eastern Mediterranean ocean climate for the early Holocene"
	Catherine Brennan — "Modelling isotopic signatures of cryospheric variability"
	Feng He — "Simulating transient climate evolution of the last deglaciation with CCSM3"
	Jung-Eun Lee — "Tropical precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum: An analysis of the “amount effect” with a water isotope-enabled General Circulation Model"
	Lydia Olaka — "Sensitivity of East African lakes to climate change: Modeling results"
	Francesco Salvatore Rocco Pausata — "Changes in atmospheric variability in a glacial climate and the impacts on proxy data: a model intercomparison"
	Steven Phipps — "Understanding ENSO dynamics through the exploration of past climates"
	Summer Rupper — "Spatial patterns of Central Asian glacier advance and retreat during the last glacial cycle"

	Jessica L. Black — "A paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments: A long-term record in the terrestrial Canadian arctic spanning more than 200,000 years"
	Andreas Born — "Sea ice induced changes in ocean circulation during the Eemian"
	Andreas Born — "The 8k event: Abrupt transition of the subpolar gyre towards a modern North Atlantic circulation"
	Yanjun Cai — "An absolute-dated and high-resolution Indian Monsoon record over the past 245 ka from Xiaobailong Cave, southwest China"
	Cristiano Chiessi — "Precipitation variability over southeastern South America: From orbital- to decadal-scale processes"
	Cristiano Chiessi — "South Atlantic inter-ocean exchange as the trigger for the Bølling warm event"
	Maureen Davies — "Marine observations of deglaciation and the Bølling-Alleröd/Younger Dryas transitions from the SE Alaskan margin"
	Elizabeth Farmer — "Variability of the subpolar North Atlantic during Marine Isotope Stage 5"
	Michael Griffiths — "Postglacial climate evolution of the southern sub-equatorial tropics from speleothems in Flores, Indonesia"
	Ryoma Hayashi — "Millennial-scale vegatation response to the East Asian monsoon for the last 40 ka based on a pollen record of Lake Biwa, the central Japan"
	Ines Heßler — "Response of tropical African vegetation to periods associated with North Atlantic Heinrich Events"
	Peter Hopcroft — "Modelling climate evolution through the last interglacial"
	Sophie Lewis — "Water isotopes records of Australian palaeomonsoon dynamics over the last ~ 30 ka: Integrating speleothem reconstructions and GCM results "
	Björn Machalett — "Long term seasonality changes and abrupt climate shifts recorded in highly resolved dust/loess sequences across Eurasia"
	Kana Nagashima — "Millennial-scale oscillations in westerly jet path and their linkage with East Asian monsoon"
	Christopher Somes — "Modeling nitrogen isotopes in a global marine ecosystem model: Constraints on the coupling between N fixation and denitrification"
	Jessica Tierney — "Coherence between the Asian monsoon and Indonesian hydrology during the past two millennia"
	Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove — "Delayed development of fully marine surface water conditions in the Norwegian Sea and Fram Strait during the last interglacial (MIS 5e)"
	Yoganandan Veeran — "Late glacial-holocene indian monsoon changes: a sediment core record from the southeastern Arabian Sea "
	Shiling Yang — "Migration of the Mu Us desert and its implications for advance/retreat of the East-Asian summer monsoon rainfall belt during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles: Evidence from particle size of Chinese loess"
	Xiaoyan Zhu — "A comparison of stalagmite records of Asian Monsoon climate changes since 7 ka BP"

	Yazidhi Bamutaze — "The effect of land use and land cover changes on runoff fluxes and soil losses on Mt. Elgon in Uganda"
	Pamela Collins — "Did prehistoric anthropogenic soil erosion cause a shift in Mediterranean biomes over the Holocene? (YSM POSTER PRIZE)"
	Robert Hatfield — "Sediment sourcing and environmental reconstruction using particle size-specific magnetic fingerprinting: Bassenthwaite Lake, UK"
	Jun Inoue — "Fire history in central Japan reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal "
	Tyhra Carolyn Kumasi — "Land cover change in the Barekese River Basin of Ghana"
	Mariano Morales — "Seven centuries of precipitation variations in the Bolivian Altiplano inferred from the world’s highest-elevation tree-ring records: Environmental and sociocultural implications"
	Ignacio A. Mundo — "Fire and climate variations inferred from Araucaria araucana chronologies in northern Patagonia "
	Diego Navarro — "Examining the mid-late Holocene environments of west-central Argentina"
	Cindy Palinkas — "Anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem dynamics in nearshore Chesapeake Bay environments"
	Michael Stambaugh — "Long-term drought variability in the Central United States: Signal detection and agricultural connection"
	Michael Stambaugh — "Climate forcing of historic and future fire frequency in the continental United States"
	Megan Walsh — "Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Holocene fire and vegetation history of the Willamette Valley, northwest Oregon and southwest Washington"
	Michal Woszczyk — "Recent sedimentary processes in a coastal Lake Sarbsko (northern Poland) and their paleoenvironmental implications"
	Enlou Zhang — "Fossil midges (Diptera: Chironomidae) as paleoecological indicators in Chinese lakes"