Programme

                    Thursday 16th September 2004

11:00

Registration in the foyer of SPRI

(please submit CDs etc containing your talk at registration)

12:30

Lunch in the foyer

13:15

Welcome - Housekeeping

13:25

Introduction: Dr Colin P Summerhayes

 Executive Director of Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Oral session 1 - Palaeoclimate reconstructions from marine record

13:30

Eugene Domack, Diana Duran, Amy Leventer, Scott Ishman, Sara Doane, Scott McCallum, Jim Ring and Robert Gilbert

Palaeoclimate reconstructions from marine records: Stability of the Larsen Ice Shelf and its regional perspective (Invited)

14:00

Scott Ishman, Scott McCallum, Phillip Szymcek, Michael Prentice and Eugene Domack

A Foraminiferal Record of Biotic Response to Changing Conditions of the Larsen Ice Shelf

14:20

David Heroy and John Anderson

Ice Sheet Extent and Subsequent Retreat of the Antarctic Peninsula during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)

14:40

Carol Pudsey, P. Morris, W. Jokat and C. Holz

The Palaeoclimate Archive In The Northwest Weddell Sea

Oral session 2 - Palaeoclimate reconstructions from terrestrial records

15:00

Dominic Hodgson

Palaeoclimate reconstructions from terrestrial records (Invited)

15:30

Coffee 

Oral session 3 - Cryospheric impacts / ice shelf retreat

15:50

Ted Scambos

Ice Shelf Retreat and Collapse in the Antarctic Peninsula (Invited)

16:10

Alison Cook

Glacier-front trends on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 50 years

16:30

Andreas Vieli, Zhijun Du, Anthony Payne and Andrew Shepherd

Numerical modelling and data assimilation of recent changes of the Larsen ice shelf

16:50

Return to Downing College – Poster set up time

17:20

Poster Session 1, West Lodge Room, Downing College (Including Reception)

19:40

Conference Dinner - Jesus College (Upper Hall)

 (Transport to Jesus College has not been arranged.  Taxis can be ordered from the Downing College Porter’s Lodge.  Walking takes 15 – 30 minutes depending on your pace.  Please be ready to take your seat at 19:45, dinner will be served promptly at 20:00)

 

Friday 17th September 2004

Oral session 4 -Impacts on ecosystems

9:00

Andy Clarke and Peter Convey

Climate change and organisms: the Antarctic Peninsula as an example (Invited)

9:30

Langdon Quetin and Robin Ross

 

Changes in Two Species of Zooplankton Indicative of Ice-Covered Waters in Summer within the Palmer LTER Study Region

Oral session 5 - Climate history from the instrumental record

9:50

Phil Jones

The instrumental temperature record from the Antarctic (Invited)

10:20

Viktorie Šťastná andPetr Štěpánek

Air Temperature Trends in the Region of Northern Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands in 1950-2003

10:40

Gareth Marshall and Steven Colwell

The upper air record from Bellingshausen station, Antarctic Peninsula

11:00

Coffee

11:15

Workshop Session 1

12:45

Lunch in the foyer

Oral session 6 - The role of the oceans and sea ice in controlling Antarctic Peninsula climate variability

14:00

John Klinck

Ocean and Sea Ice processes near the Antarctic Peninsula: present conditions and possible variations (Invited)

14:30

Doug Martinson

A Decade of WAP Upper Ocean Water masses

14:50

Michael P. Meredith, Mark A. Brandon, Andrew Clarke, John C. King,  Ian A. Renfrew and Chris W. Hughes

Potential Effects of Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability on the Physical Marine Environment

15:10

Sandra Barreira and Rosa Compagnucci

Antarctic Sea Ice variability in the Weddell, the Bellinghausen and the Amundsen Seas

Oral session 7 - Climate modelling and analysis

15:30

Michiel van den Broeke, Willem Jan van de Berg, Carleen Reijmer and Erik van Meijgaard

Regional modelling of Antarctic climate and change, 1957-2002. (Invited)

16:00

Robert A. Massom, S. E. Stammerjohn, R. C. Smith, M. J. Pook, R. Iannuzzi, N. Adams, D. Martinson, M. Vernet, C. Fowler, Y. Massom and H. R. Krouse

Major Impacts of Anomalous Atmospheric Circulation Around the Antarctic Peninsula in Late Austral Winter-Early Spring 2001

16:20

Dan Lubin and Robert A. Wittenmyer

Climatology and Variability of Mesoscale Cyclones in the Western Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea Regions

16:40

A. Orr, G. Marshall, D. Cresswell, J. C. R. Hunt, J. Sommeria, C. Wang and M. Light

Enhanced warming trend over the Antarctic Peninsula

17:00

Poster Session 2, West Lodge Room, Downing College (Including Reception)

19:00

Removal of posters and disperse to dinner (no arrangements made)

 

                       Saturday 18th September 2004

9:00

Workshop Session 2

10:30

Coffee

10:50

Plenary reports from workshop groups

11:20

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