Workshop Dates: 29 September – 1 October, 2008 Location: Potsdam, Germany Steering Committee
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Sedimentary records with a resolution of centennial to sub-annual scale provide an opportunity to evaluate and model the operation of the climate system in the geological past on timescales directly relevant to current discussions of climate change. However, the existing inventory of high-resolution records generated by scientific drilling in the oceans and on land (including lakes and ice) is limited in both number and global coverage. This workshop will draw together investigators who share common goals of identifying and drilling globally distributed sites that preserve paleoclimate information on high to ultra-high resolution timescales, developing new technologies for stratigraphic correlation and multi-parameter proxy measurements, and applying coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling to arrays of paleoclimate data.
Scientific ocean drilling has played an inspirational role in advancing our knowledge of high resolution climate change – e.g., Santa Barbara Basin. Nevertheless, the effort now requires coordination to exploit the full potential of the oceans and other potential archives. The main objective of the workshop is to bring together experts in the fields described above to design strategies to find and/or explore key areas with potential high-resolution records with the aim to coordinate and integrate existing proposals from within IODP, ICDP and from other scientific programs (e.g., IMAGES) to develop new drilling proposals and to initiate research networks. The ultimate goal will be to identify a global array of high-resolution sites spanning different time intervals to fully understand the causes and consequences of rapid environmental/ climate change.
The workshop will convene in Potsdam, Germany, at the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) from September 29 – October 1, 2008. Potsdam is close to Berlin and the meeting hotel is close to the railway station with easy and fast access to Berlin and the airport. The workshop will consist of a mix of invited keynote addresses, short presentations by participants who wish to speak, and breakout sessions. Publishable documents will be produced, including a short workshop summary for EOS and a longer comprehensive workshop report.
Travel support will be extended to approximately 50 participants. Interested scientists are advised to register and apply for IODP support online by May 29. We may accept later applications. Early-career scientists are encouraged to participate.
Workshop Dates: 29 September – 1 October, 2008
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