Scientific Program

Program Information for the Media

The timetable below provides information about all the sessions and speakers at the conference. Click on the speaker’s name for biographical notes, abstracts and papers.

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Wednesday, 10 August 2005

8:30 - 9:00
Welcome Lecture
Jiayang Li, Dongsheng Liu, Zhongli Ding, Thorsten Kiefer


Session 1. Future Change: Historical Understanding

9:00 - 9:30
Michael Mann, USA
Insights from Comparing Empirically-estimated and Modeled Climate Change in Past Centuries

9:30 - 10:00
James Shulmeister, New Zealand
Interhemispheric Linkages in Climate Change: Paleo-perspectives on Modern Problems

10:00 - 10:30
Ricardo Villalba, Argentina
Long-term Variability in Tropical and High-latitude Circulation Modes of Climate in the Americas

11:00 - 11:30
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, France
Dynamics of Global Climate and Water Cycle Changes: Interest of Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions

11:30 - 12:00
Bette Otto-Bliesner, USA
Climate Sensitivity Derived from PMIP-2 Model-Data Intercomparisons for the Last Glacial Maximum and Mid-Holocene

12:00 - 12:30
Michael Schulz, Germany
Past Climate Variability at Centennial-to-millennial Timescales: Does it Matter for Predicting Future Climate Change?

14:00 - 15:00
Panel Discussion — Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Dmitry Sonechkin
(Moderator: Heinz Wanner)


Session 2. Humans and their Environment: Past Perspectives on Sustainability

15:00 - 15:30
Mohammed Umer, Ethiopia
Climate Change, Human Evolution and Later Adaptation in the Horn of Africa and the Surrounding Regions: Potential for Long Climate Record In Ethiopia

15:30 - 16:00
John Dearing, UK
Human-Environment Interactions: Past, Present and Future

16:00 - 16:30
Rick Battarbee, UK
Paleolimnology, Pollution and Climate Change


Thursday, 11 August 2005

9:00 - 9:30
Charles Redman, USA
Human Impacts on Ancient Environments

9:30 - 10:00
Rudolf Brázdil, Czech Republic
Human Impacts on Climate Anomalies and Weather Disasters during the Past Millennium in Central Europe: Learning from the Past

10:00 - 10:30
Frank Hole, USA
Sustainability in the Period of Agriculture: The Near Eastern Case


Session 3. Ocean-Continent-Cryosphere Interactions: Past and Present

11:00 - 11:30
Hubertus Fischer, Germany
Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Ice Core Paleoperspective

11:30 - 12:00
Paul Mayewski, USA
Reconstructing the Last 2,000 Years of Climate through ICARA (Ice-core Climate Archive Recovery Activity)

12:00 - 12:30
Sandy Harrison, UK
Towards Modeling the Ice-core Record of Atmospheric Trace-gas and Aerosol Variations between Glacial and Interglacial Times

14:00 - 14:30
Olga Solomina, Russia
Climatic events and tendencies in the North-West Pacific recorded by trees and glaciers during the last 400 years

14:30 - 15:00
Stephen Burns, USA
The Tropics and Rapid Climate Change - Records of Changes in Rainfall and Atmospheric Circulation from Speleothems

15:00 - 15:30
Ralph Schneider, Germany
From Milankovitch to Rapid Climate Change, IMAGES Research

15:30 - 16:00
Gavin Schmidt, USA
The Thermohaline Circulation in Past, Present and Future Climate


Friday, 12 August 2005

Session 4. Climate, Humans and the Environment in the Asian Region

9:00 - 9:30
Patrick De Deckker, Australia
The Role of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on Global Climate Change during the Quaternary

9:30 - 10:00
Zhimin Jian, China
Millennial-centennial-scale Climate Variability of the Low Latitude Western Pacific during the Late Quaternary

10:00 - 10:30
Zhisheng An, China
The Evolutional Process of Asian Dust and its Role for the Earth System in the Past

11:00 - 11:30
Gifford Miller, USA
Detecting Human Impacts on the Flora, Fauna, and Summer Monsoon of Pleistocene Australia

11:30 - 12:00
Ashok Singhvi, India
Monsoon and Man in the Indian Sub-Continent

12:00 - 12:30
Talks by presenters of meritorious abstracts

14:00-16.00
Plenary Discussion: PAGES Future Direction
Zhengtang Guo, Julie Brigham-Grette