[Aqualist] Call for Abstracts PAST CLIMATES meeting May 15-17th 2009

[Marcus Vandergoes]

Dear fellow Paleoclimate scientists and Australasian INTIMATE members,

This email is to alert you that abstracts and registration are now being 
accepted for the PAST CLIMATES meeting to be held in May 2009, Wellington, 
New Zealand.

For more information including abstract deadlines, meeting updates and 
draft programme please go to
http://www.paleoclimate.org.nz/pastclimates/index.html

I hope to see you there.

On behalf of the organising committee

Regards

Marcus Vandergoes






PAST CLIMATES meeting Overview

The meeting will outline the latest advances in understanding past 
climates in New Zealand and Australia, the causes and effects of climate 
change in the Southern Hemisphere and the relationships with global 
climate change.
National and international participants will discuss climate in 
Australasia and the Southern Hemisphere during ice age and warm world 
conditions, highlighting collaborative research on the INTegration of 
Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records (INTIMATE) and past climate 
modelling to provide a multidimensional understanding of climate change.
The first day of the meeting is the Past Climates Symposium, in which 
leading Australasian and International researchers will explain how 
Southern Hemisphere climate research has advanced understanding of 
regional and global climate change. Closing the symposium will be the 
Antarctic Research Centre's annual S.T. Lee Lecture in Antarctic Studies 
which will cover environmental and scientific research in Antarctica. 
Symposium presentations will be aimed at a non-specialist audience with an 
interest in the science behind climate change and the relationships 
between the Southern Hemisphere and the global climate system. 
Days two and three of the meeting consist of more detailed 
"workshop-style" presentations and discussions. Workshop participation is 
invited from researchers in all areas of Quaternary climate change science 
that focuses on reconstructing past changes as a means of informing our 
predictions of future changes. 

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Dr. Marcus Vandergoes
Quaternary Paleoclimate Scientist
Paleontology & Environmental Change
GNS Science
Postal address: P.O. Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040,
Courier address: 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon , Lower Hutt 5010,
New Zealand.
tel: +64-4-5704541     fax: +64-4-5704603
email: m.vandergoes at gns.cri.nz
Website:www.gns.cri.nz

Assistant Research Professor - Paleoecology
Climate Change Institute
303 Bryand Global Science Center
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469, USA
email: vandergoes at maine.edu
fax +1 207-581-1203
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