PP Program Committee
David Lea
lea@geol.ucsb.edu
 
The Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group will host the following Special Sessions at the Fall 2008 AGU Meeting.
2008 AGU Fall Meeting
2008 Special Sessions

PP01: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: General Contributions
PP02: Change in the Ocean Circulation - Are There Lessons from the Past?
PP03: Loess 2.0 - Renaissance in the Study of the Terrestrial Dust Record
PP04: Tropical Pacific Paleoceanography During the Late Quaternary
PP05: Transitioning Out of the Mid-Holocene Climate: An Evaluation of Land-Ocean Proxy Records and Model Simulations
PP06: Tracking the Last Glacial Cycle's Indo-pacific Abrupt Climate Variability
PP07: Mesozoic-Early Cenozoic Geochemical Records of Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic Variability
PP08: The State of the Ocean Carbonate System and the Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 in the Past
PP09: Constraints on Past Ocean Circulation and Climate from New and Traditional Geochemical Proxies
PP10: The Meaning Changes of the Carbon Isotope Values in the Sedimentary Record
PP11: The Role of Coccolithophores on a Changing Planet
PP12: Ocean Anoxia - Climate, Ecosystem and Sedimentary Feedbacks Through Time
PP13: Evolution of the Marine Nitrogen Cycle Through Time
PP14: North Atlantic Freshwater Forcing: History, Consequences, and Implications for Future Climate Change
PP15: Radiocarbon Evidence for Past Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Ocean Circulation
PP16: High to Ultra-High Resolution Sedimentary Records of Climate
PP17: Green Sahara: Evidence From Climate Models and Proxy Records
PP18: Past Changes in the Biological Pump: Integrating Theory with Observations
PP19: Paleoproxy-Model Comparison of ENSO-NAO-AAO Dynamics and Forcing Over the Last 2000 Years
PP20: Asian Monsoon History and Arid-Region Environmental Changes: Global and Regional Significance
PP21: Interhemispheric Teleconnections and Quaternary Marine and Continental Climate Records
PP22: Chemical and Isotopic Composition of Carbonate Skeletons: Seasonal Environmental and Climate Records
PP23: The Potential of Isotopic and Elemental Composition of Tree-Rings in Climatic and Environmental Reconstruction
PP24: Advancing Process Understanding in Proxy Climate Records
PP25: Progress in Quaternary Geochronology in Polar Regions
PP26: Paleoclimate and Modern Perspectives of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and Polar Frontal Zone
PP27: Short-Term Climate Variability in the Context of Long-Term Paleoclimatic Change
PP28: Emiliani Lecture
PP29: Novel Insights in Historical Geobiology

 

The Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group has hosted the following Special Sessions.
2004 AGU Fall Meeting
2004 Special Sessions

PP00: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology General Contributions
PP01: GeoSystems: Deep-Time Paleoclimatology and Linked Earth Systems Through Time
PP02: Cenozoic Biosphere-Climate Interaction: Proxies and Modeling
PP03: High-Frequency Climate Changes: Past, Present, and Future
PP04: Antarctic Climate, Neogene Proxies and Climate Modeling
PP05: Southern Ocean Climatic Evolution: The Marine Geologic Record
PP06: Formation of Paleoenvironmental proxies: Effect of Selective Degradation
PP07: Long Paleoclimate Records From Beringia, the North Pacific, and Adjacent Seas
PP08: New Radiogenic Isotope Records of Past Changes in Ocean Circulation, Productivity, and Sediment Transport
PP09: Cretaceous/Cenozoic Greenhouse Climate Extremes: Causes and Consequences
PP10: Paleoceanography of the Cenozoic: Stable Isotopes and Stratigraphy
PP11: Improving the Usefulness of Paleoclimatic Studies for Climate Change Assessment
PP12: Changes in Southeastern Pacific Circulation, Productivity, and Continental Climate on Tectonic, Orbital, and Millennial Timescales
PP13: From Greenhouse to Icehouse: Paleogene Global Change, Phytoplankton Response, and Atmospheric Carbon Removal
PP14: Continental Paleoclimate Proxies: From Calibration To Quantitative Reconstruction
PP15: Late Quaternary Salinity Reconstructions: Linkages Between the Hydrologic System and Oceanic Circulation
PP16: A Tropical Perspective on the Ice Ages
PP17: Paleoclimate Records of North Pacific Climate Variability: Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
PP18: Freshwater in the Climate System and Rapid Climate Change

 

2004 Co-sponsored Special Sessions

A09: Solar Influence on Climate Through Mesospheric-Stratospheric Chemical and Dynamical Processes
A21: Climate Feedbacks and Climate Dynamics
B07: Observation and Simulation in Understanding the Methane Exchanges Between the Atmosphere and Ecosystems
B08: Molecular Methods in Paleobiology
B13: Biomineralization
B18: Evaluating the Role of Impact in the End Permian and End Traissic Mass Extinctions: How Do These Compare With Other Impact or Extinction Events?
B23: Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere and Climate
B24: Integrated Modeling of the Earth System: Climate, Humans, and the Carbon Cycle
B29: Earth?s Early Biosphere: New Findings From Deep Drill Cores
B30: Earth Systems Science: A Quiet Revolution
C02: Paleoecological Approaches to Late Quaternary Climate Change and Landscape Evolution in the Circum-Arctic
C11: Changes in Frozen Ground: Environmental and Climatic Impacts
C17: Climate and Environmental Records From Middle and Low Latitudes Ice Cores
C19: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
C20: The International Polar Year 2007-2008
ED04: Communicating Climate Change Science: Conundrum or Creative Challenge? Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
GP04: Environmental Magnetism: Solving Past and Present Environmental Problems

GP06: Rock Magnetism: Nanoscale to Geological Scale
H11: Role of Climate and Climate Change in Earth Surface Processes
OS04: Strata Formation on European Continental Margins
OS05: Unraveling the "Fingerprints" of Geochemical Processes Recorded in Earth Materials
OS07: Cariaco Basin: Modern and Ancient Processes
OS16: Authigenic Mineral Formation in the Marine Environment: Pathways, Processes, and Products
T31: Scientific Achievements From Continental Drilling
V14: Applications of Metal Stable Isotopes in Low-Temperature Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry

 

 2003 AGU Fall Meeting
2003 Special Sessions

PP00: General Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Contributions
PP02: Southern Ocean Climatic Evolution: The Marine Geologic Record
PP03: Mezosoic Black Shales: Fresh Looks at an Old Problem
PP04: Nature and Causes of Cyclicity in Mesozoic and Paleogene Paleoclimate Records
PP05: ITCZ Dynamics of Past Climates
PP06: Paleoproductivity, Proxies, and Preservation: Records of Neogene Evolution of the Oceans
PP07: Evolution of the Antarctic Climate System: Modeling and Observation
PP08: Old World Social Responses to Holocene Abrupt Climate Change Events
PP09: Effects of Sediment Dynamics on Marine Paleorecords
PP10: The Last Interglacial
PP11: Global, Hemispheric and Regional Climate Signals During the Last Millennium
PP12: Evolution of Earth's Greenhouse Effect
PP13: Rapid Climate Change during the Holocene and Last Glacial

 

2003 Cosponsored Special Sessions:
A12: Isotopic Constraints on Global Budgets of Atmospheric Gases
B09: Impacts of Biomineralization on Earth Environments
B21: Geologic Aspects of Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles
B27: The Impact of Dust Emission and Deposition on Biogeochemical Cycling and Ecosystem Function
C01: The Roles of Permafrost in Climate Change: Archive, Translator, and Facilitator
C02: Advances in Glacier Geophysics
C08: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
C09: Glacier-Climate Interactions
GC01: Reconstructing Hydroclimatic Variability in North America: Progress, Methods, and Uncertainties
GC02: Rates of Change in the Earth System
NG02: Scaling in Our Fluid Earth: Chaos and Multifractals in the Atmosphere, Cceans, Hydrology, and Climate
OS04: Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoceanographic Variability Along the Pacific Margin of North America
OS06: The Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations, Past, Present, and Future
OS07: Beyond Hydrate Ridge: Studies of Natural Gas Hydrate From Around the Globe
T15: Late Cenozoic Tectonics, Climate, and Topography in the Central and Southern Andes
 

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group
Web Comments: David M. Anderson
October 21, 2004