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The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International is pleased to announce that it will convene a topical symposium in 2007 on the topic of "North Atlantic and Arctic Climate Variability,” scheduled 15-16 August 2007, in Bremen, Germany.
The Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic are key areas for understanding the history of climate on Earth. North Atlantic Deep Water, a critical component of thermohaline circulation, is formed here when heat is transported northwards by ocean currents and then released into the atmosphere. While scientific ocean drilling in this region has greatly contributed to our understanding of the processes influencing climate in this region, this topical symposium seeks to include the full scope of marine, terrestrial, and ice research being conducted to further our knowledge of North Atlantic and Arctic Climate Variability. This topical symposium will provide researchers the opportunity to convene and discuss the current state of affairs in this important oceanographic setting.
The topical symposium will include 15 keynote lectures by scientific leaders on the topic of North Atlantic and Arctic Climate Variability. There will also be a poster session. All topical symposium participants are encouraged to contribute to the symposium by bringing a poster to the session. The lectures and posters will be organised within four main topics.
Millennial-Scale Climate Dynamics Chairs: Eystein Jansen and Gerold Wefer
Speaker: Trond Dokken, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Norway Title: Ocean dynamics and feedbacks behind millennial scale- and rapid climate changes in the past.
Speaker: Gerrit Lohmann, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany Title: North Atlantic Oscillation on multi-millennial timescales (modelling results)
Speaker: Stefan Mulitza, Research Center Ocean Margins (RCOM), University of Bremen, Germany Title: Tropical response to abrupt late Quaternary changes of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation
Speaker: David Hodell, University of Florida, USA Title: High-resolution Pleistocene stratigraphy of IODP Site U1308 using stable isotopes, geomagnetic paleointensity and scanning XRF records
Speaker: Kenji Kawamura, Tohoku University, Japan Title: Northern hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles over the past 360,000 years implied by absolute dating of Antarctic ice cores
Speaker: Valerie Masson-Delmotte, LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ IPSL CEA, France Title: EPICA Dome C deuterium record of millenial and orbital scale climate variability
Speaker: Gerald Haug, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany Title: About the major intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation 2.7 million years ago
Speaker: Ralf Tiedemann, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany Title: Link between Atlantic overturning circulation and equatorial Pacific cold tongue state during the warm Pliocene
The topical symposium will be held in Bremen, Germany, August 15-16, 2007. Participants should plan to arrive in Bremen on August 14 and depart either late on August 16 or anytime August 17. Rooms have been reserved at special rates for symposium attendees and can be reserved through the IODP-MI online registration form (link to reservation form). There is a registration fee of $50.00 for professional registrants and $10.00 for student registrants. Funding is available to help offset the costs of students and post-doctoral researchers who would like to attend the symposium. Contact Kelly Kryc (
) at IODP-MI for more information.
The symposium will be held in conjunction with an ECORD/IODP summer school on paleoceanography for advanced PhD students and young postdocs. The summer school will take place in Bremen from August 13 to 24, 2007 (For more details see http://www.ecord.org/edu/summerschool.html#bremen).
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