Agenda

April 3, 2002
7:00-9:00 pm Registration, Poster set-up and Reception
April 4, 2002
8:00 am   Coffee
9:00-9:30 am

Welcoming remarks
Eugene M. Tobin, President, Hamilton College

Scott Borg, National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs

9:30-10:00 am

Workshop introduction
Eugene Domack, Hamilton College

10:00-11:00 am

Keynote Speaker
John Anderson, Rice University
"The LGM Ice Sheet Reconstruction for the Antarctic Peninsula: Can the Data Satisfy Geophysical Models?"

11:00-11:15 am  Questions
11:15-noon Coffee and Poster Session A
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:15-1:45 pm

Marine Sediment Record
Amy Leventer, Colgate University
"Marine Sediment Record of Natural Environmental Variability and Recent Warming"

1:45-2:00 pm Questions
2:00-2:30 pm
Land and lake records
Christian Hjort, Lund University, Sweden
"Late Pleistocene and Holocene Glaciation and Climate History of the Antarctic Peninsula Region - According to the Land and Lake Sediment Record"
2:30-2:45 pm Questions
2:45-4:00 pm Coffee and Poster Session B
4:00-4:30 pm Ice record
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center
"Ice Core Contributions to the Paleoclimate History of the Antarctic Peninsula"
4:30-4:45 pm Questions
4:45-5:15 pm Penguin colonies
Steve Emslie, University of North Carolina
"Penguin Colonies and Environmental Change in the Antarctic Peninsula Region"
5:15-5:30 pm Questions
5:30-7:00 pm Social time
7:00 pm Dinner (Annex)
8:00 pm Publication discussion (optional)
 
April 5, 2002
8:00-9:00 am Coffee
9:00-9:30 am Historical climatology
Ian Simmonds, University of Melbourne
"Large-scale influences on Antarctic Peninsula climate"
9:30-9:45 am Questions
9:45-10:15 am

Meteorology of the Antarctic Peninsula John King, British Antarctic Survey
"Antarctic peninsula climate variability and its causes as revealed by instrumental records"

10:15-10:30 am Questions
10:30-10:45 am Coffee
10:45-11:15 am

Ice Shelf disintegration
David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey
"Climatic control of ice shelves"

11:15-11:30 am Questions
11:30-noon Ice shelf paleohistory
Bob Gilbert, Queen's University
"Glacimarine Record of the Disintegration of the Larsen A Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula"
Noon-12:15 pm Questions
12:15-1:15 pm Lunch
1:30-1:50 pm

Ecosystem response
Peter Convey, British Antarctic Survey
"Signals of changing climate from the Antarctic terrestrial environment"

1:50-2:00 pm Questions
2:00- 2:20 pm Overview of Palmer LTER marine Ecosystem Status
Ray Smith, University of California-Santa Barbara
2:20- 2:30 pm Questions
2:30-2:50 pm

Ocean-atmosphere interactions
Rob Dunbar, Stanford University
"Paleo-record of ENSO in pacific realm and teleconnections to the Antarctic Peninsula."

2:50-3:00 pm Questions
3:00-3:15 pm Coffee
3:15-3:45 pm General climate modeling
Phil Duffy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Global Climate Modeling and the Antarctic Peninsula
3:45-4:00 pm Questions
4:00-5:00 pm Introduction, Barbara Tewksbury
Keynote Speaker

Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona
"A Paleoperspective on Global Warming - the Polar View Could be the Most Important View"
5:00-5:45 pm Panel Discussion
5:45-7:00 pm Social hour, Poster removal
7:00 pm Banquet with presentation by David Elliott, Byrd Polar Research Center
"Historical Exploration of the Penninsula: A Personal Perspective"


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