Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology



Advanced Understanding of Tropical-Subtropical Hydroclimate Changes During the Pleistocene, Holocene, and Anthropocene
Primary Convener:  Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Conveners:  Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Na Wang, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Aniket Dhar Sr., The University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Na Wang, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Aniket Dhar Sr., The University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States


Advances in speleothem science: new records, methods, and applications
Primary Convener:  Calen Rubin, Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Weis Patterson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Cameron B de Wet, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States and Benjamin H Tiger, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany


Advancing Paleoclimatology by Combining Data, Models, and Theory
Primary Convener:  Shouyi Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca Cleveland Stout, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States and Charlie Marshall, University of Connecticut, Groton, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Brynnydd Hamilton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States


Climate of the Common Era
Primary Convener:  Sloan Coats, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Jane Wallace, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States and Julie Edwards, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ana Isabel Gonzalez Mendez, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States


Connecting Neogene Climate, Tectonics, and Evolution
Primary Convener:  Kevin T Uno, Harvard University, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Poulsen, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, Tara Smiley, Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook, United States and Alexander Lowe, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States


Environmental and Ecosystem Change Through the Late Pleistocene
Primary Convener:  Matthew Illing, Stanford University, Oceans, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ibuki Sugiura, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, United States, Ciara Wanket, University of California Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, United States and Ashlyn Posey, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States


Limnogeology and Paleolimnology
Primary Convener:  Torsten Haberzettl, University of Greifswald, Institute for Geography and Geology, Physical Geography, Greifswald, Germany
Conveners:  Melissa A Berke, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Anders J Noren, CSD, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, ESCI, Minneapolis, United States and Lisa Boush, University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Marie-Luise Adolph, University of Greifswald, Institute for Geography and Geology, Physical Geography, Greifswald, Germany


Mesozoic Greenhouse Climates: Proxies, Models, and Climate Sensitivity
Primary Convener:  Bernát Heszler, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Lucien Nana Yobo, Texas A&M University College Station, Geology & Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States and Isabel Fendley, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Bernát Heszler, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom


Mountain glaciers and alpine environments across time: integrating proxy reconstructions, modeling approaches, and modern observations
Primary Convener:  Andrew G Jones, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Roger Creel, Texas A& M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States, Allie Balter-Kennedy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Alia Lesnek, CUNY Queens College, Flushing, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Joel Wilner, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States


New Insights from Legacy Scientific Ocean Drilling Cores: Advances in Methods and Applications
Primary Convener:  Yunlang Zhang, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Conveners:  Jared Nirenberg, Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States and Michelle Penkrot, Texas A&M University, Scientific Ocean Drilling, College Station, United States


North Atlantic Ocean Circulation: Gateways, Source Waters, and Their Role in Global Paleoclimate
Primary Convener:  Disha Baidya, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Melissa A Berke, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Barbara Balestra, American University, Department of Environmental Science, Washington, DC, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Patricia Standring, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Paleobiology, Washington, D.C., United States


Ocean Oxygen in the Past and Present
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth M Griffith, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Wang Yi, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States and Catherine Davis, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Kaetlyn Rodriguez, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States


Paleo- and Historical Perspectives on Fire in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  A Tyler Karp, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences Department, Chicago, IL, United States
Conveners:  Richard S Vachula, Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, United States and Nicholas A O'Mara, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States; Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Andrea Mason, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States


Paleohazards: Pleistocene to the Present
Primary Convener:  Joshua C Bregy, Clemson University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Emily A Elliott, University of Alabama, New College & Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States, Clay Tucker, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Ray Lombardi, University of Memphis, Department of Earth Sciences, Memphis, TN, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Lexie Thornton, University of Alabama, Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States


Quaternary Climate and Environmental Change: Proxies, Processes, and Models
Primary Convener:  Rebecca Topness, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States
Convener:  Sudip Acharya, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States


Reconstructing Past Sea Level and Ice Sheet Dynamics over Glacial Cycles
Primary Convener:  Roger Creel, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Tamara Pico, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States; University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States and Holly Kyeore Han, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Karlee Prince, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States and Tao Yuan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States


Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific: Past, Present, and Future Climate and Environment
Primary Convener:  Shouyi Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Trang Tran, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Elizabeth Weis Patterson, Lafayette College, Easton, United States and Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jahmaine Renzo Yambing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States


The Arctic and its Gateways: Unlocking the climatic impact of North Pacific-Arctic-North Atlantic interchanges
Primary Convener:  Jesse R Farmer, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Kristen K St John, James Madison University, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, Claire Jasper, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States and Tengfei Song, University of Quebec at Rimouski UQAR, Institut des sciences de la mer (ISMER), Rimouski, Canada
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Katherine Stelling, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Washington, United States and Lindsey Monito, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, United States


The Miocene Climate: From Poles to Tropics and Land to Sea
Primary Convener:  Dr. Xiaoqing Liu, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States
Conveners:  Alexander J Clark, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, R. Paul Acosta, George Mason University, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences, Fairfax, United States and Alexandra Auderset, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom


The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) at 20 Years: Scientific Revolution or Science off the Rails?
Primary Convener:  Mark Boslough, University of New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
Conveners:  Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Department of Lithospheric Research, Vienna, Austria, Philippe Claeys, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Archaeology, Environmental Changes and Geo-Chemistry Research Group (AMGC), Brussels, Belgium and Dr. Elizabeth A Silber, PhD, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada


Time’s Arrow: Anchoring Events, Trends and Rhythms in Earth History
Primary Convener:  Lorraine E Lisiecki, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Convener:  Timothy Herbert, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Robin Trayler, University of California Merced, Department of Life & Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States


Undergraduate and Early-Stage Graduate Student Presentations in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Primary Convener:  Christopher William Kinsley, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Chloe H Anderson, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Matthew Kirby, Cal-State Fullerton, Fullerton, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Joan Chimezie, University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, United States


Vegetation Shifts and Climate Interactions on Millennial to Million-year Timescales
Primary Convener:  Riley Hayes, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Climatic Research and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Elke Zeller, PhD, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States, Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University, Department of Mathematics and Computing, Calgary, AB, Canada, John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography and Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States and Jed Kaplan, University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada


Water Isotope Systematics: Improving Understanding of Past, Present, and Future Hydroclimate
Primary Convener:  Lisa R Welp, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Yingying Feng, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, Kanon Kino, The University of Tokyo, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan and Feng Zhu, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States