Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology



A high-temporal-resolution view of deep-time “greenhouse climates”
Primary Convener:  Yige Zhang, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States
Conveners:  Linda C Ivany, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States and Jiang Zhu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiang Zhu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


Advances in Understanding the Global Meridional Overturning Circulation from Past to Future: Structure, Sensitivity, and Detectability
Primary Convener:  Feng He, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Convener:  Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States


Advancing Paleoclimatology by Combining Data, Models, and Theory
Primary Convener:  Alyssa R. Atwood, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Conveners:  Daniel E Amrhein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jacob Scheff, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States and Sara Sanchez, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alyssa R. Atwood, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States


Carbonate Sediments Through Time: Processes of Deposition and Diagenesis
Primary Convener:  Lizzy Trower, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Theodore Present, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Oyeleye O. Adeboye, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Stillwater, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lizzy Trower, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


Climate of the Common Era
Primary Convener:  Sloan Coats, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Bethany Coulthard: University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Conveners:  Bethany Coulthard, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Geoscience, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Elizabeth Jane Wallace, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Hussein Sayani, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States and Bethany Coulthard: University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Primary Liaison:  Sloan Coats, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Bethany Coulthard: University of Nevada at Las Vegas


Climate reconstructions from the Pacific region: Insights into past oceanic and atmospheric conditions
Primary Convener:  Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jordan Abell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Chloe H Anderson, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher William Kinsley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System
Primary Convener:  Mingsong Li, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Linda A Hinnov, George Mason University, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, Pam Vervoort, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States and Zheng Gong, Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mingsong Li, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China


Dust-Climate Interactions During the Past: Modeling and Observations
Primary Convener:  Yonggang Liu, Peking University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Steve Pratte, Zhejiang University, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Francesco S.R. Pausata, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and Christopher T Hayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yonggang Liu, Peking University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China


Environmental Effects and Eruptive Dynamics of Large Igneous Provinces: a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Primary Convener:  Isabel Fendley, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Courtney Jean Sprain, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Brian Kelley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Tamsin A Mather, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Isabel Fendley, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom


Evolution of the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Benjamin W Johnson, Iowa State University, Atmospheric and Geological Sciences, Ames, IA, United States
Conveners:  Colin Goldblatt1, Julia Horne1 and Anne-Sofie Crüger Ahm2, (1)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada(2)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin W Johnson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada


High-resolution sedimentary archives and the detection of abrupt environmental changes
Primary Convener:  Francois Lapointe, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Celia Martin-Puertas, Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Geography, Egham, United Kingdom, Tobias Schneider, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Pierre Francus, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada and Francois Lapointe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Francois Lapointe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States


Historical and Paleo Perspectives on Fire in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Richard S S Vachula, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Jarunetr (Nadia) Sae-Lim, Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, Allison Karp, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Troy M Ferland, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Richard S S Vachula, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States


Human Responses to Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Change
Primary Convener:  Alia J Lesnek, University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States
Convener:  Joseph M Licciardi, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alia J Lesnek, University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States


Hydroclimate Lessons from Cenozoic Paleoclimates
Primary Convener:  Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States
Conveners:  Ran Feng, University of Connecticut, Department of Geosciences, Groton, CT, United States, Tyler Kukla, Stanford University, Geological Sciences Department, Stanford, CA, United States and Daniel Enrique Ibarra, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tripti Bhattacharya, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States


Hyperthermal events in the geological records
Primary Convener:  Ying Cui, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Feifei Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Shijun Jiang, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Ying Cui, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States


LAKES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE - ARCHIVES OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY, PALEOENVIRONMENT, GEOHAZARDS, AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES
Primary Convener:  Scott Starratt, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jessica R Rodysill, U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA, United States, Margarita Caballero, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofísica, Mexico City, Mexico, Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, Concordia University, Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada and Matthew Kirby, Cal-State Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott Starratt, U S Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States


Lipid Biomarkers to understand Earth’s System: Development, Validation, and Application
Primary Convener:  Cindy De Jonge, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Karen Jiaxi Jiaxi Wang, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Amy Cromartie, Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, Ithaca, NY, United States and Bernhard David Naafs, University of Bristol, Department of Earth Sciences & Department of Chemistry, Bristol, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Cindy De Jonge, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland


Merging the Arctic Ocean into the global late Quaternary climate system
Primary Convener:  Christelle Not, University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Poirier Robert
Conveners:  Robert K Poirier, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States, Laura Gemery, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Poirier Robert
Primary Liaison:  Christelle Not, University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Poirier Robert


Novel and Quantitative Methods for Reconstructing Continental Palaeoenvironments and Palaeohydrology
Primary Convener:  Jessica Leigh Oster, Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Enrique Ibarra, University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States; Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Ola Kwiecien, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Elisabeth Dietze, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; University of Bonn, Geography, Bonn, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Jessica Leigh Oster, Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States


Paleoceanographic insights from biomineralizers: advancing proxy applications via process-based understanding
Primary Convener:  Jennifer S Fehrenbacher, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Christina Belanger
Convener:  Christina L Belanger, Texas A&M University, Geology & Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States and Christina Belanger
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer S Fehrenbacher, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Christina Belanger


Phanerozoic climate through space and time: Approaches, advances, and challenges in reconstructing the evolution of Earth’s climate
Primary Convener:  Emily Joan Judd, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
Conveners:  Sophia Macarewich, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Isabel P Montanez, Univ of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily Joan Judd, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States


Refinement of paleo-proxies in the GEOTRACES era
Primary Convener:  Christopher T Hayes, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Conveners:  Kazuyo Tachikawa, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France, Kassandra Costa, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jesse R Farmer, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States; Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany and Jean-Claude Dutay, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Primary Liaison:  Christopher T Hayes, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States


Tipping Points in the Earth System: different perspectives of all the relevant disciplines
Primary Convener:  Denis-Didier Rousseau, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Conveners:  Niklas Boers, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany and Peter D. Ditlevsen, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Denis-Didier Rousseau, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France


Tropical Paleoclimate Across Time: Insights from Proxy Data and Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Xiaojing Du, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Conveners:  Allison E Lawman, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Samantha Stevenson, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaojing Du, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States


Turning up the amplifier: proxy and model reconstructions of high latitude climate, environments, forcings, and feedbacks during past globally warm intervals
Primary Convener:  Christopher K West, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Conveners:  Tammo Reichgelt, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Alberto V Reyes, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and David R Greenwood, Brandon University, Dept. of Biology, Brandon, MB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Christopher K West, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada


Understanding Climate Change from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present
Primary Convener:  Anson H Cheung, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Conveners:  Xiaojing Du, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Alyssa R. Atwood, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anson H Cheung, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States


Understanding the Influences of Sedimentary and Oceanographic Processes on Geochemical Archives
Primary Convener:  Preston Cosslett Kemeny, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Johnson, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Kimberly V Lau, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Preston Cosslett Kemeny, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


Water Isotope Systematics: Improving Modern and Paleoclimate Interpretations
Primary Convener:  Bradley R Markle, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Georgina Falster, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, Jun Hu, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Nicole K Murray, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Georgina Falster, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States


The past and future of fire
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States