AGU Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatogy Focus Group

PP Program Committee
Baerbel Hönisch	hoenisch@ldeo.columbia.edu
Matthew Schmidt	mschmidt@ocean.tamu.edu

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The Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group will host the following Special Sessions at the Fall 2011 AGU Meeting.
2011 AGU Fall Meeting 2011 Special Sessions
PP01: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: General Contributions PP02: Abrupt Hydroclimate Changes In The Tropics During The Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle PP03: Bering Sea And Beringia Climatic And Oceanic Change Of The Past And Present PP04: Cenozoic Climate: From Proxy Reconstructions To Model Assessments PP05: Cenozoic History And Climate Of The Arctic Ocean PP06: Climate Reconstruction From Speleothems - Spatial And Temporal Inter-relationships Of Global Climate Events And Their Local Characteristics PP07: Common Era Chronometry And Climate In Terrestrial Plant And Animal Proxies PP08: Disequilibrium Effects On Isotopic And Chemical Fractionation In Mineral-Fluid Systems In The Development Of Paleo-Environmental Proxies PP09: Documenting And Understanding The MWP/LIA Climate Anomalies: Data And Models PP10: Earth System Sensitivity To Radiative Forcings: Lessons From Earth History PP11: From The Critical Zone To The Oceans: Connecting Litho-, Bio- And Hydrosphere With Geochemical Proxies PP12: Global Freezes And Thaws Prior To The Cenozoic PP13: Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Sea Paleoceanography And Ocean/Continent/Atmosphere Linkages PP14: Arctic Climate And Environmental Change Through The Holocene PP15: Interpreting The Geologic Past Using Novel Stable Isotope Systems PP16: Isotopes In Precipitation: Paleoclimate Archives, Modern Observations, And Modeling PP17: Late Quaternary Records Of Rapid Climate Change In The Tropical Pacific PP18: Linking Intermediate Water Circulation To Abrupt Climate Change PP19: Loess 2.0 - Milestones And Recent Advances In The Study Of Loess, Dust, And Other Aeolian Sediment Archives PP20: Millennial-Scale Climate Variability And Its Interaction With Orbital-Timescale Variations In Earth's Climate PP21: Paleo Evidence Of The Earth System During The Last 100 Years PP22: Paleoclimate Proxy Reconstructions And Models Of Holocene North Pacific Climate Variability: Synthesis And Comparison PP24: Pleistocene Climate Variability In The Polar North Pacific Realm PP26: Polar Continental Margins - Glacial And Climatic Evolution In The Cenozoic PP27: Reconstruction And Modeling Of Global Climate Evolution Of The Last 21,000 Years PP28: The Climate Of The Common Era PP29: The Pre-Quaternary Concentration Of Atmospheric CO2 - Proxies And Mechanisms For Change PP30: The Role Of The Southern Ocean In Past Global Climate Change PP31: Tropical Forcing Of Interhemispheric Teleconnections Of Marine And Continental Climate Through ENSO And ITCZ Migration During The Late Quaternary PP32: Emiliani Lecture
The Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group has hosted the following Special Sessions at past AGU Fall meetings.

2010 AGU Fall Meeting 2010 Special Sessions
PP01: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: General Contributions PP02: Sea Level, Near Surface Currents and the Stratigraphic Record: Recent Results PP03: Loess 2.0 : Milestones and Recent Advances in the Study of Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment Archives PP04: The Climate of the Common Era PP05: Paleo-History of the Greenland Ice Sheet PP06: Breakthroughs in Continental Paleothermometry: Applications of Terrestrial Proxies PP07: Studying Uncertainty in Paleoclimate Reconstruction PP08:Molecules Modern to Ancient PP09: Reconstruction and Modeling of Global Climate Evolution of the Last 21,000 years PP10: Interglacial Climate Variability PP11: Nitrogen Cycle in the Oceans, Past and Present PP12:Carbon Isotopes in Biogenic Carbonates PP13: Cretaceous Arctic Environments: Proxies for Understanding Climate Change From the "Other" Greenhouse Interval PP14: The Early Pliocene Warm Period as an Analog for Future Warmth PP15: Reconciling Models of Hyperthermal Events in Earth History PP16: Cenozoic Evolution of Ocean and Climate Systems: New Results from Ocean Drilling PP17: Southern Connnections: An Intra-hemispheric Palaeoclimate Comparison PP18: Mechanisms Controlling the Incorporation of Paleoproxies into Host Minerals: Contributions From Molecular-Scale Approaches PP19: Glacial Inception and Termination - Reconciling Observations, Theories and Models PP20: Miocene to Present Evolution of Western Arctic and Sub-Arctic Environments PP21: Paleoclimate Insights From Vegetation Proxies and Models PP22: Pliocene Climate PP23: Advances in the Use of Biomarkers PP24: The Dynamics of Glacial Cycles PP25: Paleoceanography at the Interface of Emerging Microanalytical Technologies PP26: Paleoceanographic Insights Into Ocean Acidification PP27: Climate Forcing of Land-Ocean Interactions PP28: Emiliani Lecture (Webcast)
2009 AGU Fall Meeting 2009 Special Sessions
PP01: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: General Contributions PP02: Cenozoic Antarctic Evolution PP03: Loess 2.0 - Milestones and Recent Advances in the Study of Loess, Dust, and Other Aeolian Sediment Archives PP04: Paleoceanographic Applications of Biogenic Opal: Proxies in a Silica World PP05: Late Pleistocene Variability in Ventilation of Deep and Intermediate Water Masses PP06: Reconstructing Paleocirculation: Proxy Versus Model Comparisons PP07: Reconstruction and Modeling of the Transient Climate Evolution of the Last 21,000 Years PP08: Cenozoic Greenhouse Climates and Carbon Cycle Dynamics PP09: Holocene Climate Variability: Changes in the Ocean-Atmosphere System and their Impacts on the Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems PP10: Deglaciation of the Northern Hemisphere - Timings and Forcings PP11: The Heat is On: Past, Present, and Future Climate Change in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool PP12: Reconstructing Warm Climates of the Early Eocene PP13: Changing Terrestrial Fluxes to the Oceans: Investigating Controls on Weathering and Sediment Fluxes Through Time Using Geochemical Proxies PP14: Empirical and Modeling Perspectives to Understanding the Tempo, Mode, and Origin of Climate Change During the Neoglacial Period PP15: Younger Dryas Boundary: Extraterrestrial Impact or Not? PP16: Deep-Sea Coral Archives of Oceanographic Change PP17: New Approaches to Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystem and Climate Reconstructions PP18: High-Resolution Paleo Climate Modeling and Comparison to Proxy Data PP19: Global Lake Drilling in the 21st Century: The Emergence of Long Continental Paleoenvironmental Records PP20: Peatlands and the PaleoCarbon Cycle and Paleohydrologic Cycle PP21: Decadal to Century-Scale Climate Variability Over the Last Millennium: Evidence From Non-tree Ring Archives PP22: High-Resolution Records of Late Glacial and Holocene Hydrologic Variability from Tropical South America PP23: Merging New and Old Proxies; Techniques, Limitations and Applications from the Geological Record PP24: Paleoclimate Records of North Pacific Climate Variability: Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions PP25: Take it From the Top: Climate Variability in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic During the Holocene PP26: Emiliani Lecture
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