DIMACS Conference Program


1	WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: Geological Data Fusion: Tackling the Statistical Challenges of Interpreting Past Environmental Change
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3		40 minute time slots include 10 minutes for questions and discussion
4		20 minutes time slots include 5 minutes for questions
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6	Thursday		8:00	Breakfast and Registration		Friday		8:15	Breakfast and registration
7			8:45	Welcome				8:45	Meeting resumes
8		Session 1	9:00	Martin Tingley (Harvard)	On the simultaneous inference of past temperatures and climate sensitivity		Session 4	9:00	Ben Horton (U. Penn)	Sea-level change along the Atlantic coast of the United States
9		Paleo-temperature and inference about climate sensitivity	9:40	Gavin Schmidt (NASA GISS)	Climate sensitivities		Paleo-sea level and inference about ice sheet stability	9:40	Gary Mitchum (U. South Florida)	Can we determine sea level rise acceleration from the instrumental record?
10			10:00	Bala Rajaratnam (Stanford)	Novel high dimensional statistical methodology for multiproxy paleoclimate reconstructions			10:00	Patrick Applegate (Penn State)	First steps toward using geological data to reduce uncertainty in future sea level rise contributions from the Greenland Ice Sheet
11			10:20	Coffee Break				10:20	Coffee Break
12			10:30	Nathan Urban (LANL)	Climate sensitivity estimated from the Last Glacial Maximum			10:30	Vivien Gornitz (Columbia)	A rapid ice-melt sea level rise scenario, based on the Last Glacial Termination
13			10:50	Julia Hagreaves (JAMSTEC)	Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity?			10:50	Bob Kopp (Rutgers)	Bayesian inference on sea level and ice volume history during past interglacials
14			11:30	Discussion				11:30	Discussion
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16			12:00	Lunch and Poster Session				12:00	Lunch and Poster Session
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18			1:00	Rebecca Wright	Director's Welcome
19		Session 2	1:10	David Thomson (Queen's)	Some observations on the problem of recovering time scales in paleodata		Session 5	1:00	Rina Schumer (Desert Research Institute)	Inference on Earth surface evolution from the stratigraphic record
20		Spectral analysis and the identification of climatic pacemakers	1:50	Jeffrey Park (Yale)	Spectral coherence evidence for oceanic control of interannual carbon cycle feedbacks		Paleo-environmental reconstructions and the character of the sedimentary record	1:40	Jane Willenbring (U. Penn)	Birth, life and fate of continental sediment in the wake of climate change and mountain uplift
21			2:10	Stephen Meyers (U. Wisconsin)	Patterns in static			2:00	Shanan Peters (U. Wisconsin) (CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS)	The process signal of gaps in the continental shelf and deep sea sedimentary records
22			2:40	Linda Hinnov (Johns Hopkins)	Complex signal analysis of paleoclimatic time series			2:00	Discussion
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26			3:50	Coffee Break			Session 6	2:40	Concluding Session
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28		Session 3	4:00	Chris Paciorek (Berkeley)	Using spatio-temporal statistical modeling for paleoecological reconstruction and uncertainty characterization
29		Paleo-climate and paleo-ecological inference	4:40	Michael Dietze (Boston U.)	Assimilating paleoecological data into land surface & biogeochemical models
30			5:00	Kevin Anchukaitis (WHOI)	Climate information from tree-rings: state-of-the-art and existing challenges			3:20	Closing Remarks
31			5:20	Jessica Tierney (WHOI)	Time-uncertainty in paleoclimate proxy records and implications for climate reconstruction
32			6:00	Discussion
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34			6:30	Closing Remarks
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36			6:45	Dinner	DIMACS 4th Floor Lounge (Room 401)
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