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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

07.30 - 18.00 Registration

BERNEXPO 2 Entrance Hall

08.30 - 10.10 Oral Sessions

#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
44The World Reshaped: Mechanisms and Impacts of Agricultural Transitions
47Quaternary records of rapid coastal change (co-seismic uplift/subsidence, storm impacts and tsunamis)
55Paleoseismology, megacities, and critical social infrastructures
64Reconciling modern and Quaternary rates of landscape evolution
82Developing Quaternary chronologies in tectonically active settings
90Palaeofloods in Earth's history

Coffee Break

10.50 - 12.30 Oral Sessions

#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
44The World Reshaped: Mechanisms and Impacts of Agricultural Transitions
47Quaternary records of rapid coastal change (co-seismic uplift/subsidence, storm impacts and tsunamis)
55Paleoseismology, megacities, and critical social infrastructures
64Reconciling modern and Quaternary rates of landscape evolution
82Developing Quaternary chronologies in tectonically active settings
90Palaeofloods in Earth's history

Lunch

13.45 - 14.45 Plenary Talk

BERNEXPO 4 Plenary Hall

Meinert Rahn, Eidg. Nuklearsicherheitsinspektorat (ENSI), Brugg (CH)
The impact of Quaternary sciences on the disposal of radioactive waste in Switzerland

Silvio Tschudi, Allianz SE, München (D)
Living with Uncertainty - Climate Change and Insurance

14.45 - 16.45 General Assembly II

BERNEXPO 4 Plenary Hall

Official INQUA Business, Closing Ceremonies

Farewell Drink

Sponsored by BERNEXPO and Henris Restaurant and Catering.