The School lectures (45-90 minutes long) will be given by world-wide famous specialists on quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Altogether, 25 lecturers are invited. All the lectures will be given in the Seminar Room of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS).
| Welcome: 0845-0900 | |
| 0900-0930 |
Introduction Gilles RAMSTEIN Céline MONCOURTOIS Tomasz GOSLAR |
| 0930-1100 |
Overview of continental
paleoclimatic proxies in time and space John BIRKS |
| Coffee Break: 1100-1130 | |
| 1130-1230 |
Marine recors of past
natural climate variability Claire WAELBROECK |
| Lunch: 1230-1400 | |
| PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC SESSION | |
| 1400-1445 |
Using U-series isotopes
to assess past rates of ocean circulation Gideon HENDERSON |
| 1445-1530 |
Trace elements in
foraminiferal calcite Stephan STEINKE |
| Coffee Break: 1530-1600 | |
| 1600-1645 |
High latitude rapid
climate changes, and linkages to low latitude Trond DOKKEN |
| 1645-1730 |
Benefits of multi-proxy studies Bjoerg RISEBROBAKKEN |
| PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC SESSION (cont.) | |
| 0830-0915 |
Timing issues in marine
and ice core records Claire WAELBROECK |
| 0915-1000 |
Interpretation of
deltaC13 in marine cores from glacial to interglacial
stages Elisabeth MICHEL |
| 1000-1030 | Discussion |
| Coffee Break: 1030-1100 | |
| GLACIOLOGY SESSSION | |
| 1100-1145 |
Remote sensing Frédérique REMY |
| 1145-1230 |
Snow accumulation:
spatial and temporal variability in Antarctica Massimo FREZZOTTI |
| Lunch: 1230-1400 | |
| 1400-1445 |
Water isotopes and
antarctic paleoclimatology Jean JOUZEL |
| 1445-1530 |
Detailed Holocene
climatic records from Greenland Bo VINTHER |
| 1530-1600 | Discussion |
| Coffee Break: 1600-1630 | |
| MODELLING SESSION | |
| 1630-1730 |
Hierarchy of
models Didier PAILLARD |
| PALEOCONTINENTAL SESSION | |
| 0830-1000 |
Vegetation
dynamics Joël GUIOT |
| Coffee Break: 1000-1030 | |
| 1030-1200 |
Biological proxies in
sedimentary archives - progress, problems,
potentialities John BIRKS |
| Lunch: 1200-1300 | |
| Excursion: 1300-1830 | |
| Conference Dinner: 2000 | |
| GLACIOLOGY SESSSION (cont) | |
| 0900-1000 |
Paleoclimate
reconstruction from ice core chemistry Eric WOLFF |
| Coffee Break: 1000-1030 | |
| PALEOCONTINENTAL SESSION (cont.) | |
| 1030-1200 |
Seeing through the
forest: teasing out climatic information from tree-rings Rob Wilson |
| Lunch: 1200-1330 | |
| 1330-1500 |
Stable isotopes in
organics Mary GAGEN |
| Coffee Break: 1500-1530 | |
| 1530-1615 |
Stable isotopes in
carbonates Ulrich von GRAFENSTEIN |
| 1615-1700 |
Speleothem, stable
isotopes and paleoclimate Dominique GENTY |
| 1700-1730 | Discussion |
| MODELLING SESSION (cont.) | |
| 0900-1030 |
Earth system model of
intermediate complexity (EMICs) Andrey GANOPOLSKI |
| Coffee Break: 1030-1100 | |
| 1100-1230 |
Progress in Quaternary
paleoclimate modelling with GCMs Joy SINGARAYER |
| Lunch: 1230-1400 | |
| 1400-1530 |
Modelling late
Quaternary continentel glaciation Philippe HUYBRECHTS |
| 1530-1600 | Discussion |
| Visit of the Poznan Radiocarbon Laboratory: 1600-1800 | |
| Dinner: 1800-1900 | |