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Workshop Title |
Date and
Location |
Scientific Focus |
Contact |
|
Austral Summer Institute VIII |
14-25 Jan.
Concepcion,
Chile |
Past, present and future scenarios of oceanography and climate change; graduate educational activity |
Silvio Pantoja |
| Northern Eurasian paleoecological database |
14-19 Apr.
Southampton, UK |
Fossil pollen data from the former Soviet Union for the interval 21 kyr to present. |
Heather Binney |
|
Climate change: from geologic past to uncertain future |
26-29 May
Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium |
Climate variations and predictions at astronomical timescales; tribute to André Berger |
Michel Crucifix |
| Climate Change: The Karst Records (KR5) |
2-5 June
Chongqing, China
|
Speleothem records, cave deposits and cave monitoring relevant to climate history; evolution of karst regions and cave systems. |
Hongchun Li |
| ENSO Summer School |
14-23 June
Puna, USA |
El Niño-Southern Oscillation dynamics and predictability |
Axel Timmermann |
Quaternary pollen database of China |
11-13 Aug.
Shanghai, China |
Development of existing pollen database to include morphology, surface and fossil pollen |
Chengyu Weng |
Peatland archives of Holocene climate variability |
TBD
Lääne-Virumaa,
Estonia |
Holocene paleoclimatology and paleohydrology from peatland archives |
Stephen Jackson |
|
Workshop Title |
Date and
Location |
Scientific Focus |
Contact |
|
Working Group meeting on Arctic climate last 2 kyr |
8 Mar.
Boulder, USA |
Generation and synthesis of high-resolution paleoclimate data to assess and elucidate timing and variability of Arctic climate change in last two millennia |
Nalân Koç |
|
IPICS Steering Committee meeting |
19-20 Apr.
Vienna, Austria |
Planning and start of implementation of IPICS (International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences) priority projects |
Eric Wolff |
|
Empirical constraints on sea level rise over next century |
25-29 Aug.
Bern,
Switzerland |
Define goals for future research efforts to better constrain rates and magnitudes of sea level change over next century using paleo data |
Mark Siddall |
|
Extreme Climate Events of past 1-2 kyr |
1-3 Sep.
Istanbul,
Turkey |
Impacts of extreme climate events on cultural history in greater Mediterranean region; paleo droughts and heatwaves |
Jürg Luterbacher |
| PMIP2: Coupled Simulations and Data Syntheses |
14-19 Sep.
Estes Park, USA
|
PMIP2 subproject results from model-model and model-data comparisons; planning and implementation of new PMIP2 themes |
Bette Otto-Bliesner |
|
1st PIGS (Past interglacials) workshop |
1-3 Oct.
Bernin,
France |
Inter-interglacial comparisons (forcing, duration, responses) over the last 800 kyr |
Dominique Raynaud |
| African Palaeofire |
27-31 Oct.
Nairobi, Kenya
|
Capacity building of the African paleofire research community; continuing the growth of the Global Charcoal Database |
Mitchell Power |
| PAGES Global Monsoon Symposium |
29-31 Oct.
Shanghai, USA
|
Global vs regional monsoon; modern vs paleo-monsoon; modeling the mechanisms and processes of monsoon variations |
Pinxian Wang |
