Understanding Earth's Deep Past: Lessons for Our Climate Future (2011)
Chapter: Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants
Appendix B
Workshop Agenda and Participants
AGENDA
| Monday, May 5, 2008 | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome Statement | Dick Norris |
| 9:30 | PLENARY ADDRESS: | |
| Simulating Earth’s Climate: Past, Present, & Future | Jeff Kiehl | |
| 10:30 | PLENARY ADDRESS: | |
| Rapid Environmental Change and Feedbacks: | Jim Zachos | |
| Lessons from Deep Time | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | BREAKOUT I | |
| Events and Transitions, Tipping Points, and Thresholds | ||
Question 1: What evidence can we use to identify thresholds and tipping points in the geologic record? | ||
Question 2: What are the best parts of the record to target—and what are the proxies to use—to describe and categorize thresholds and tipping points in the record? What are the nonlinear processes that determine critical “tipping points,” and are these processes well represented in climate models and in biota-climate models? | ||
| 1:30 | PLENARY ADDRESS: | |
| Carbon Cycling and Climate Sensitivity Across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary | Richard Zeebe | |
| 2:00-3:30 | BREAKOUT II | |
| Coupling and Decoupling Climate Sensitivity | ||
Question 3: What physical and biogeochemical feedback processes are most important in determining the climate sensitivity to a large dynamic range of forcing? | ||
Question 4: What can deep-time records and models tell us about climate sensitivity? | ||
| 4:00-5:30 | BREAKOUT REPORTS—Questions 1-4 | |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | ||
| 9:00 | NSF Hopes and Expectations | Rich Lane |
| 9:30 | PLENARY ADDRESS: | |
| Dinosaur Forecast—Cloudy! A Convective-Cloud Mechanism for Past Equable Climates and Its Role in Future Greenhouse Scenarios. | Eli Tziperman | |
| 10:30-2:00 | BREAKOUT III | |
| Alternative Worlds | ||
Question 5: What are the most poorly understood dynamics of past “alternative worlds,” and which “alternative world” intervals offer the greatest potential for understanding future climates? | ||
Question 6: What kinds of proxy evidence do we need to advance understanding of the dominant processes that operate in these “alternative world” intervals? | ||
| 1:00-2:30 | BREAKOUT IV | |
| Implementation and Infrastructure | ||
Question 7: Describe the infrastructure that will be required to answer these questions? | ||
Question 8: How do we improve interactions between deep-time data/model research? | ||
Question 9: What are the best options for additional paleoenvironmental and geochronological proxies (e.g., biomarkers and isotopes of biomarkers)? | ||
| 3:00-4:30 | BREAKOUT REPORTS—Questions 5-9 | |
| 4:30 | Wrap-up and Thanks | Dick Norris |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | |
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Thomas Algeo
Department of Geology
University of Cincinnati
David Beerling
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Karen Bice
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gabe Bowen
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
Mark A. Chandler
Center for Climate Systems Research
Columbia University
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Robert DeConto
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts
Harry Dowsett
U.S. Geological Survey
Anthony R. de Souza
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
National Research Council
David Feary
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
National Research Council
Alexey Fedorov
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
Christopher Fielding
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Margaret Frasier
Department of Geosciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Katherine H. Freeman
Department of Geosciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Linda Gundersen
U.S. Geological Survey
Patricia Jellison
U.S. Geological Survey
Kirk R. Johnson
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Martin J. Kennedy
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Dennis V. Kent (NAS)
Department of Geological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jeffrey T. Kiehl
National Center for Atmospheric Research
H. Richard Lane
National Science Foundation
Timothy Lyons
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Isabel P. Montañez
Geology Department
University of California, Davis
Thomas Moore
PaleoTerra
Richard D. Norris
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Paul Olsen (NAS)
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Mark Pagani
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
Martin Perlmutter
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Christopher Poulsen
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Michigan
A. Christina Ravelo
Department of Ocean Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
Greg Ravizza
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nicholas Rogers
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
National Research Council
David Rowley
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
Dana Royer
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wesleyan University
Nathan Sheldon
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Michigan
Christine Shields
Climate Change Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Linda Sohl
Center for Climate Systems Research
Columbia University
Lynn Soreghan
College of Earth and Energy
School of Geology and Geophysics
University of Oklahoma
Christopher Swezey
U.S. Geological Survey
Karl K. Turekian (NAS)
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
Eli Tziperman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Thomas Wagner
Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
Newcastle University
Debra Willard
U.S. Geological Survey
Scott Wing
Smithsonian Institution
Jim Zachos
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
Richard Zeebe
Department of Oceanography
University of Hawaii at Manoa
