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 9th IAMAS
Scientific
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Abstracts
The OSM will consist of plenary lectures by invited speakers and poster sessions. Talks and posters are grouped into 4 themes and then into sub-themes:
• Future Change: Historical Understanding
Plenary Lectures: 9:00-12:30, Wednesday, 10 August
Posters: 16:00-18:00, Wednesday, 10 August
One motivation to investigate past environmental conditions is to draw conclusions about future change that could not be drawn from short present-day observations alone. Research presented in this session focuses on high-resolution and high-precision reconstructions from the last centuries and millennia before the instrumental record. Contributions to this session put observations of present-day global change and predictions on future change into the perspective of natural climatic and environmental variability. Studies presented here also aim towards a better understanding of the climate system, or parts thereof, in order to equip predictive approaches, such as climate models, with increasingly realistic process modes.
Sub-themes (with links to anchors)
Global
Americas
Antarctica
Africa
Eurasia
Southern Asia
Arabian monsoon
Australasia
• Humans and their Environment: Past Perspectives on Sustainability
Plenary Lectures: 14:00-15:30, Wednesday, 10 August and 9:00-10:30, Thursday, 11 August
Posters: 16:00-18:00, Wednesday, 10 August
The trend of paleoresearch towards ever higher resolution and towards subrecent historical and archeological timescales requires us to include man as a component in the Earth System. It also enables us to study the effect of climatic/environmental change on past societies. Contributions to this session address both feedback directions of the climate-environment-man system. They do so by presenting high-resolution paleo-data of the last decades to millennia in the context of the archeological and historical records, and by presenting environmental records that contain evidence of human activity.
Sub-themes (with links to anchors)
Americas
Africa
Europe
Southern Asia
Eastern Asia
Australia
• Ocean-Continent-Cryosphere Interactions: Past and Present
Plenary Lectures: 11:00-16:00, Thursday, 11 August
Posters: 16:00-18:00, Thursday, 11 August
As part of the attempt to converge towards a more holistic understanding of the Earth System, this session addresses interactions between its major components. Approaches include data analysis and computer modeling on different timescales, ranging from seasonal-scale modern-day observations to million-year-scale changes during the Neogene Greenhouse-Icehouse transition. Papers are presented that test or refine particular ideas of Earth component coupling and others that seek to put new paleoenvironmental observations into an Earth System context.
Sub-themes (with links to anchors)
Methods
Holocene
LGM-Holocene
Last Glacial Cycle
Pleistocence
Pre-Pleistocence
• Climate, Humans and the Environment in the Asian Region
Plenary Lectures: 9:00-12:00, Friday, 12 August
Posters: 16:00-18:00, Thursday, 11 August (Western Pacific Margin sub-group) and 16:00-18:00, Friday, 12 August (all other sub-groups)
This session zooms in on various regions in and around the host country of the meeting. The ensemble of numerous local studies composes detailed pictures on regional aspects of climate change. Many contributions in this session extend towards addressing the human dimension of regional environmental change, an issue of particular importance given the dense and dynamic population in many parts of Asia. Papers cover various timescales and are grouped into regional focus groups.
Sub-themes (with links to anchors)
Western Pacific Margin
East Asian Monsoon
Paleohydrology
Loess Deposits
Himalaya/Tibetan Plateau
India/Arabian-Indian Monsoon
Western/Northern Asia
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