The Pacific Ocean is of fundamental importance to the global climate system, particularly through its capacity to affect the global carbon cycle and heat transport. In addition, the sediments found within this basin and its marginal seas act as archives of past changes in the climate of this region. Recent studies have elucidated evidence of substantial variability in past oceanic and atmospheric circulation in various parts of the Pacific, and highlight the necessity to expand regional reconstructions spatially and temporally.

This session focuses on new and integrative climate proxy records from the Pacific Ocean, its marginal seas, and nearby terrestrial records over all timescales that enhance our understanding of climate change related to this important region. We encourage multidisciplinary contributions that utilize oceanographic or terrestrial samples in the form of empirical or modeled data to reconstruct past environmental conditions linking the ocean and atmosphere systems throughout the Pacific.