Calibrating Geological Records of Environmental Change from Lakes to Oceans
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GENERAL PROGRAM & keynote speakers
"Calibrating Geological Records of Environmental Change from Lakes to Oceans"
Sunday 5 July: Late afternoon arrival of participants at Centro Stefano Franscini
Monday 6 July: Chemical Processes and Geochemical Signals in Modern Aqueous Systems
Morning: Modern geochemical processes and the carbon cycle
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Cindy Lee
School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA "Ocean acidification: The role of particles"
Afternoon: Proxy signals of geochemical processes
Keynote speaker: Prof. Harry Elderfield
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK "The origin of the Pleistocene carbonate cycles"
Tuesday 7 July: Physical Processes and Natural Hazards in Modern Lakes and Oceans
Morning: Physical processes and their seismic expression
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Stephen A. Miller
Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Germany "Earthquakes: The great carbon recycler"
Afternoon: The paleo-record of natural hazards
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Marc de Batist
Department of Geology & Soil Science, Ghent University, Belgium "Lake sediments as archives of paleoseismic activity: Potential and pitfalls"
Wednesday 8 July: Field trip to study geologic outcrops of ancient submarine sequences and modern in situ lacustrine sedimentary sequences
Morning: Theme Paleoceanography - Southern alpine Mesozoic pelagic sections
Leader: Prof. Helmut Weissert, ETH-Zürich
Afternoon: Theme Natural Hazards - Sediment/seismic profiles on Lago Maggiore
Leader: Prof. Flavio Anselmetti, Eawag, Zürich
Evening: Conference Dinner on Isola di Brissago
Thursday 9 July: Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Records from Lakes and Oceans
Morning: Paleo-records from the Quaternary icehouse world
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dave Hodell
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK "Pleistocene history of North Atlantic climate variability"
Afternoon: Paleo-records from the Mesozoic greenhouse world
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Elisabetta Erba
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Milano, Italy "Calcareous plankton in a Greenhouse world: Examples from Jurassic and Cretaceous oceans"
Friday 10 July: New techniques and future approaches in Paleoenvironmental Studies
Morning: Geomicrobiology of Sedimentary Sequences
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Pieter Visscher
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, USA "Microbial records in sedimentary systems: What is biotic and how can we know?"
Afternoon: Wrap-up Session - Future Scientific Directions and Pending Global Change
16:00 Departure of participants from Centro Stefano Franscini