| Note: All posters will be on display from Wednesday to Friday. |
| Tuesday, 9 August 2005 |
19:00-
20:00 |
WELCOME RECEPTION — Beijing Continental Grand Hotel, Banquet Hall, 2nd floor |
| Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
| 8:30 |
Welcome Lecture — Jiayang Li, Dongsheng Liu, Zhongli Ding, Thorsten Kiefer |
Session 1. Future Change: Historical Understanding
Chair: Julie Brigham-Grette |
| 9:00 |
Michael Mann, USA — Insights from Comparing Empirically-estimated and Modeled Climate Change in Past Centuries |
| 9:30 |
James Shulmeister, New Zealand — Interhemispheric Linkages in Climate Change: Paleo-perspectives on Modern Problems |
| 10:00 |
Ricardo Villalba, Argentina — Long-term Variability in Tropical and High-latitude Circulation Modes of Climate in the Americas |
10:30-
11:00 |
COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, France — Dynamics of Global Climate and Water Cycle Changes: Interest of Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions |
| 11:30 |
Bette Otto-Bliesner, USA — Climate Sensitivity Derived from PMIP-2 Model-Data Intercomparisons for the Last Glacial Maximum and Mid-Holocene |
| 12:00 |
Michael Schulz, Germany — Past Climate Variability at Centennial-to-millennial Timescales: Does it Matter for Predicting Future Climate Change? |
12:30-
14:00 |
LUNCH |
14:00-
15:00 |
Panel Discussion — Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Dmitry Sonechkin
(Moderator: Heinz Wanner)
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Session 2. Humans and their Environment: Past Perspectives on Sustainability
Chair: Daniel Olago |
| 15:00 |
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 |
John Dearing, UK — Human-Environment Interactions: Past, Present and Future |
| 16:00 |
Rick Battarbee, UK — Paleolimnology, Pollution and Climate Change |
16:30-
18:30 |
Posters I (with drinks and snacks):
Session 1 and Session 2
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| Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
| 9:00 |
Charles Redman, USA — Human Impacts on Ancient Environments |
| 9:30 |
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 |
Frank Hole, USA — Sustainability in the Period of Agriculture: The Near Eastern Case |
10:30-
11:00 |
COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
Session 3. Ocean-Continent-Cryosphere Interactions: Past and Present
Chair: Pinxian Wang |
| 11:00 |
Hubertus Fischer, Germany — Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Ice Core Paleoperspective |
| 11:30 |
Paul Mayewski, USA — Reconstructing the Last 2,000 Years of Climate through ICARA (Ice-core Climate Archive Recovery Activity) |
| 12:00 |
Sandy Harrison, UK — Towards Modeling the Ice-core Record of Atmospheric Trace-gas and Aerosol Variations between Glacial and Interglacial Times |
12:30-
14:00 |
LUNCH |
| 14:00 |
Olga Solomina, Russia — Climatic events and tendencies in the North-West Pacific recorded by trees and glaciers during the last 400 years |
| 14:30 |
Stephen Burns, USA — The Tropics and Rapid Climate Change - Records of Changes in Rainfall and
Atmospheric Circulation from Speleothems |
| 15:00 |
Ralph Schneider, Germany — From Milankovitch to Rapid Climate Change, IMAGES Research |
| 15:30 |
Gavin Schmidt, USA — The Thermohaline Circulation in Past, Present and Future Climate |
16:00-
18:00 |
Posters II (with drinks and snacks):
Session 3 and Session 4 (Western Pacific Margin sub-theme) |
| 19:00- |
CONFERENCE BANQUET |
| Friday, 12 August 2005 |
Session 4. Climate, Humans and the Environment in the Asian Region
Chair: Peter Kershaw |
| 9:00 |
Patrick De Deckker, Australia — The Role of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on Global Climate Change during the Quaternary |
| 9:30 |
Zhimin Jian, China — Millennial-centennial-scale Climate Variability of the Low Latitude Western Pacific during the Late Quaternary |
| 10:00 |
Zhisheng An, China — The Evolutional Process of Asian Dust and its Role for the Earth System in the Past |
10:30-
11:00 |
COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
| 11:00 |
Gifford Miller, USA — Detecting Human Impacts on the Flora, Fauna, and Summer Monsoon of Pleistocene Australia |
| 11:30 |
Ashok Singhvi, India — Monsoon and Man in the Indian Sub-Continent |
| 12:00 |
Talks by presenters of meritorious abstracts |
12:30-
14:00 |
LUNCH |
| 14:00 |
Plenary Discussion: PAGES Future Direction
Zhengtang Guo, Julie Brigham-Grette |
16:00-
18:00 |
Posters III and award of poster prizes (with drinks and snacks):
Session 4 (except Western Pacific Margin sub-theme) |
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