[Aqualist] Intl Conf on Historical and Paleoclimatology

[Zsuzsanna Vizi]

Announcement and Call for Papers

International Conference on Historical Climatology
October 11-13 2007, Torun, Poland
http://www.uni.torun.pl/~vizi/60latZKlim.htm

The Organizing Committee would like to invite you to an international
conference "The Climate of Poland in Historical Times in Relation to the
Climate of Europe", to be held in Toruń, October 11-13, 2007.

The aim of the conference is to present scientific achievements in the
field of historical climatology based on climatology, history,
dendroclimatology, paleolimnology, geophysics, geomorphology
and other research.

Conference topics:
Sources of paleoclimactic information
Research methods of climactic changes in historical times
The climate of the area Europe in historical times and
its changeability
Extreme weather and climate phenomena in historical times
Causes and effects of climate change in historical times
Climate change scenarios in Europe in the 21st century.

Plenary sessions with invited papers:
- Raymond Bradley (USA) - The Climate of the Last Millennium
- Jürg Luterbacher (Switzerland) -  European Climate Variability over
the Last Centuries: Uncertainties, Trends, Extremes and Forcings
- Vladimir. V. Klimenko (Russia) - Documentary evidence of strong climate
variations in the Russian Arctic from the 15th to the 20th centuries
- Rudolf Brazdil (Czech Republic) - Fluctuations and Impacts of
Hydro-Meteorological Extremes in Central Europe in the Past Millennium
based on Documentary Evidence
- Jacek Majorowicz (Canada) - Recent advances in temperature borehole
climatology with examples of GST history reconstructions for Poland
and Canada for the last 500 years

Organisers
Department of Climatology, Institute of Geography,
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
Polish Society of Geophysics, Pomeranian Branch
District Museum in Toruń

Conference Calendar
28.02. 2007     - Registration (see registration form),
30.04.2007  - Registration fee payment, submission of abstracts
1.09.2007  - Second information leaflet with draft program
31.12.2007  - Submission of full texts of papers.

For more information, please visit the webpage:
http://www.uni.torun.pl/~vizi/60latZKlim.htm


Marek Kejna, Zsuzsanna Vizi
Climatology Department, Institute of Geography,
Nicolaus Copernicus University
ul. Gagarina 9, 87-100 Toruń
tel. (+48 56) 611-26-15, e-mail: vizi at uni.torun.pl
http://www.uni.torun.pl/~vizi/60latZKlim.htm

Chair of the Organising Committee

prof. dr hab. Rajmund Przybylak