[Aqualist] Preliminary notice for Australian climate workshop, June 27-28th

[Chris Turney]

> Dear colleagues,
>
> We wish to provide preliminary notice of a workshop entitled  
> 'Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating  
> high-resolution palaeodata for meaningful prediction in the  
> Australasian region' to be held at the Australian Academy of Sciences  
> on June 27-28th of this year.
>
> The proposed 2-day workshop will bring together climatologists (palaeo  
> and contemporary) and modellers working on a variety of different  
> palaeoclimatic and historical datasets spanning the last 60,000 years  
> to discuss their results within the context of past and future change  
> in the region. The workshop will allow the presentation of the latest  
> different palaeoclimatic datasets of relevance to the Australia and  
> New Zealand region (from the ice, marine and terrestrial realms) and  
> place the results in a global context. The workshop will provide an  
> opportunity for the scientific community to discuss ways in which this  
> data can be used more effectively to help us understand climate  
> mechanisms for predicting future climate change and its variability on  
> the millennial, centennial, decadal and annual timescales. The  
> workshop will pave the way for new and robust methods for  
> reconstructing past climatic changes in the Australasian region for  
> comparison to other datasets from around the world
> (including the Northern Hemisphere ‘hockey stick’ curve). The workshop  
> will identify records where the assembly of data will provide higher  
> temporal and spatial resolution than have previously been available  
> (or attempted), and the provision of data in a manner suitable for use  
> in model validation. Participants who have attempted to calibrate  
> palaeo data against existing instrumental climate records are keenly  
> encouraged to attend.
>
> Confirmed speakers include Ed Cook (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory),  
> JP Steffenson (NorthGRIP, University of Copenhagen) and Mike Gagan  
> (Australian National University).
>
> We are currently formalising the final programme and a web site will  
> soon be available for registration. In the meantime, do not hesitate  
> to contact me or any of the other members of the organising committee  
> if you wish your name to be put on a distribution list with future  
> details.
>
> With very best wishes,
>
> Chris Turney
> On behalf of the Organising Committee for 'Reconstructing past  
> climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo  
> data for meaningful prediction in the Australasian region’
>
> Organising Committee
>
> Dr Chris Turney (Convener), School of Earth and Environmental  
> Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong (turney at uow.edu.au)
> Professor John Chappell, Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU,  
> Canberra
> Professor Peter Kershaw, School of Geography and Environmental  
> Science, Monash University, Melbourne
> Professor Amanda Lynch, School of Geography and Environmental Science,  
> Monash University, Melbourne
> Dr Mike Manton, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne
> Dr Neville Nicholls, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne
> Professor Andy Pitman, Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie  
> University, Sydney


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Dr. Chris Turney
President to the INQUA Sub-Commission for Tephrochronology and Volcanism
(SCOTAV)
Web page: http://www.gns.cri.nz/inquatephra/
Tephra extraction techniques virtual workshop:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/arcpal/Tephra/Tephratrace/Home.htm

Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
NSW 2522
Australia

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