FW: Kelts Session at AGU

[Katherine HARLE]

Reply to
Thomas C. Johnson, Professor and Director
Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota
Duluth, MN  55812
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo

Please consider participating in the following session at the Fall AGU.
Abstract deadline is August 30 (paper) or September 6 (electronic).

Special Session PP12:
"Lacustrine records of global climate change: a special session in
honor of Kerry Kelts." 

Lacustrine records are providing new insights into the temporal and
spatial variability of past climate change on the continents.  The
field of limnogeology is at a turning point with the newly developed
GLAD 800 drilling system.  This, coupled with new and improved
analytical approaches for both geochronology and various proxy signals
of past climate dynamics, is allowing us to more fully comprehend how
the global climate system has impacted continental ecosystems through
time, potentially over multiple glacial-interglacial cycles. This
session will focus on the last full glacial-interglacial cycle, with
special emphasis on time windows of major climate change, including 4
ka, 8.2 ka, the Younger Dryas, and the penultimate (MIS 6/5) glacial -
interglacial transition. The session honors the contributions to
limnogeology, including the conceptual design of the GLAD 800, by Kerry
R. Kelts, who passed away in February 2001. 


Thomas C. Johnson, Professor and Director
Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota
Duluth, MN  55812
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo


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