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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

07.30 - 18.00 Registration

BERNEXPO 2 Entrance Hall

08.30 - 10.10 Oral Sessions

#Session Title
8Climate changes over the last millennium
34Geoarchaeology: Paleoenvironments and Human Interactions
45Man and Hydroecosystems - Water Ecosystems as a Component of the Geographical Mantle and the Anthropogenic Influence over Them
48Sea-level jumps: evidence from Quaternary proxy records
51Pleistocene chronostratigraphy, climate and glaciations in the Alps and other European mountains
53Palaeohydrological archives, fluvial environments and surface-groundwater flow processes
60The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
61Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes
88The last British-Irish Ice Sheet: recent advances from terrestrial and marine investigations
97Holocene rapid environmental change end extreme events as recorded in lake sediments
98Tropical palaeoclimate records and teleconnections to higher latitudes
109Understanding last glacial cycle ice sheets and meltwater impact through data and modelling

Coffee Break

10.50 - 12.30 Oral Sessions

#Session Title
8Climate changes over the last millennium
32Evolutionary, behavioral and cultural ecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominin populations in Africa and Asia
34Geoarchaeology: Paleoenvironments and Human Interactions
36Enhancing Tephrochronology and its Application in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental-change Studies
45Man and Hydroecosystems - Water Ecosystems as a Component of the Geographical Mantle and the Anthropogenic Influence over Them
48Sea-level jumps: evidence from Quaternary proxy records
51Pleistocene chronostratigraphy, climate and glaciations in the Alps and other European mountains
60The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
61Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes
88The last British-Irish Ice Sheet: recent advances from terrestrial and marine investigations
97Holocene rapid environmental change end extreme events as recorded in lake sediments
109Understanding last glacial cycle ice sheets and meltwater impact through data and modelling

Lunch

13.45 - 14.30 Plenary Talk

BERNEXPO 4 Plenary Hall

Celâl Sengör, Instanbul Technical University (TR)
Stratigraphy and global change

14.30 - 15.50 Poster Sessions with Coffee

#Session Title
2Linking Southern Hemisphere multiproxy records and past circulation patterns: AUS-INTIMATE and wider Southern Connections
9Regional climate change during the last 2000 years – contributions to the PAGES 2k Network
13Quantitative biota-based environmental reconstruction since the LGM
15Holocene Glacier Variability from the Tropics to the Poles
25Environmental and Cultural Dynamics in Western and Central Europe during the Upper Pleistocene
32Evolutionary, behavioral and cultural ecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominin populations in Africa and Asia
36Enhancing Tephrochronology and its Application in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental-change Studies
44The World Reshaped: Mechanisms and Impacts of Agricultural Transitions
45Man and Hydroecosystems - Water Ecosystems as a Component of the Geographical Mantle and the Anthropogenic Influence over Them
47Quaternary records of rapid coastal change (co-seismic uplift/subsidence, storm impacts and tsunamis)
48Sea-level jumps: evidence from Quaternary proxy records
54Palaeogroundwater
55Paleoseismology, megacities, and critical social infrastructures
58Quantifying and modelling human and climatic impacts on hillslope and fluvial sediment dynamics during the Holocene
60The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode
61Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes
63High and Central Asia - Pleistocene Glaciations and related geomorphological phenomena
64Reconciling modern and Quaternary rates of landscape evolution
82Developing Quaternary chronologies in tectonically active settings
83Variable marine 14C reservoir ages, global correlation of climate events, past MOC patterns and atmospheric pCO2
90Palaeofloods in Earth's history
96Inter-hemispheric climate perspectives from high-precision glacier records
97Holocene rapid environmental change end extreme events as recorded in lake sediments
109Understanding last glacial cycle ice sheets and meltwater impact through data and modelling

15.50 - 17.30 Oral Sessions

#Session Title
8Climate changes over the last millennium
32Evolutionary, behavioral and cultural ecology of Plio-Pleistocene hominin populations in Africa and Asia
34Geoarchaeology: Paleoenvironments and Human Interactions
36Enhancing Tephrochronology and its Application in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental-change Studies
45Man and Hydroecosystems - Water Ecosystems as a Component of the Geographical Mantle and the Anthropogenic Influence over Them
54Palaeogroundwater
58Quantifying and modelling human and climatic impacts on hillslope and fluvial sediment dynamics during the Holocene
61Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes
63High and Central Asia - Pleistocene Glaciations and related geomorphological phenomena
83Variable marine 14C reservoir ages, global correlation of climate events, past MOC patterns and atmospheric pCO2
96Inter-hemispheric climate perspectives from high-precision glacier records
97Holocene rapid environmental change end extreme events as recorded in lake sediments

Break

Meetings

19.30 Public lecture (in german)

Universitätsbibliothek, Münstergasse 63 (City Centre)

Klima - Botschaften aus dem ewigen Eis
Hubertus Fischer, University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics