[Sasnet] Another INQUA session! (fwd)

[Bonnie A B Blackwell]

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:49:46 +0000
From: Robertson I. <I.Robertson at SWANSEA.AC.UK>
To: QUATERNARY at CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA
Subject: Another INQUA session!

Dear Colleagues,

Just in case you've been abducted by aliens, hibernating or stranded on an
island, we would like to inform you that the XVII INQUA Congress will be
held in Cairns, Australia from 28 July to 3 August 2007. You are invited
to submit an abstract for the following session:





Climate of the last 1000 years



Conveners: Iain Robertson (UK), Sheila Hicks (Finland), Cynthia Froyd (UK)
and Mary Gagen (UK)


Does the magnitude and rate of 20th century warming exceed the natural
variability of climate of the last millennium? Although there has been
considerable success in reconstructing Northern Hemisphere temperatures,
there is still uncertainty associated with past climatic variability and
the reconstruction of longer-term changes.

As instrumental climatic records rarely extend back further than a few
centuries, additional climatic information is required from other sources.
These indirect records include the interpretation of documentary sources
and the measurement of the physico-chemical properties of natural archives
such as tree-rings, coral records, ice cores, laminated sediments and
marine records. One of the problems of the existing reconstructions is
that only a few of the proxy records cover the entire one thousand years.
By establishing new proxy records and combining these independent results,
the errors and bias associated with individual records will be reduced
enabling a more reliable picture of baseline environmental conditions to
be established. Such multi-proxy archives are essential to reduce the
uncertainties in future climate change scenarios.

This session is directed towards researchers working with the
determination and interpretation of palaeoclimate data covering the last
1000 years and those utilising these results.

Please check out the Conference web-site for further information
(http://www.inqua2007.net.au). The deadline for abstract submission is 31
January 2007. Potential sources of funding:

INQUA Travel Support (http://www.inqua2007.net.au/highlights.asp). Limited
funds are available to assist young scientists and students to attend the
Congress. Deadline 31 January 2007.

The Royal Society (http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=2348). Funding
is generally restricted to UK-based scientists with a PhD or equivalent
experience. The next Conference grant deadline is 5 March 2007.

Quaternary Research Association (http://www.qra.org.uk/awards.htm#inqua).
Funding is restricted to individuals that have been QRA members for at
least one year. Deadline 15 February 2007.

In principle, Prof Matthews has agreed that the proceedings of this
session will form a Special Issue of the Holocene (impact factor = 2.3).

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts.



Best wishes,



Iain, Sheila, Cynthia and Mary




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Dr I Robertson
Dept of Geography, Swansea University
Swansea  SA2 8PP, UK.

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