Conference Program

YSC Agenda

Saturday, November 4:  Arrivals (top)

Sunday, 5 November 2006: Arrivals/Registration (top)

1100-1600:   Registration, presentation submission, poster set-up, and per diem distribution

1600             Young Scientists Meet with P. Tyson for instructions on presentations

Monday, 6 November 2006: Day One (top)

0815 – 0830   Conference Opening

 P. Tyson (Chair, YSC Organizing Committee), R. Fuchs (Director, START), Qin Dahe, (Administrator, CMA)

0830 – 0900   Keynote (Fu Congbin)

0900 – 1100   Earth System Variability and Modeling (Co-Chairs: C. Nobre, Zhang Renhe)

1. Modelling the past and future magnitudes and frequency of severe European rainfall events (Fowler)

2. Natural climate variability over the last 1400 years from Gulf of Mexico sediments (Richey)

3. Intensification of 400,000 year signal in Northern Hemisphere climatic proxies 4 million years ago (Nie)

4. Reconstructing El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO): integrating evidence from tree-ring, coral, ice core & documentary palaeoarchives, A.D. 1525-2002 (Gergis)

5. Temperature, hydrological cycle and vegetation changes in the last 3500 years on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China (Liu)

6. Sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to changes in boundary conditions (Zickfeld)

7. Dissolved organic matter and sea ice in the Arctic: Implications for global warming (Bélanger) 

8. Synthesis of the Earth system measurements and modelling for the post-industrial period and future (Tanaka)

1100 – 1130   Break

1130 – 1230   Poster Presentations I (Chair:  P. Tyson)

1230 – 1330   Lunch

1330 – 1530   Ocean, Freshwater and Coastal Systems (Chair: A. Snidvongs)

 1. Human- and climate-induced changes in the Baltic Sea ecosystem: are they easily reversible? (Casini)

2. Downscaling climate-driven changes in marine and limnic pelagic ecosystems in Western Europe. From patterns to mechanisms (Molinero)

3. Global climate change is affecting the East African Rift Valley lakes (O’Reilly)

4. The influence of land use on freshwater ecosystem integrity in South Africa (Amis)

5. Rainwater harvesting as an adaptation to rainfall variability and climate change in drought-prone areas of highland Ethiopia (Bewket)

6. A Global Coastal Wetland Crisis? Sea-Level Rise, Adaptation and Wetland Change from a Global Perspective (McFadden)

8. Future hydro-climatology of the Mekong River basin under climate change simulated using the high resolution Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) AGCM (Kiem)

1530 – 1600   Break

1600 – 1700   Land Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Chair: D. Rafaelli)

1. Response of alpine tundra plants to changes in snow cover and snowmelt date (Wipf)

2. Assessing the potential of airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar for estimating above-ground woody biomass in tropical savanna woodland (Viergever)

3. The impact of anthropogenic disturbance on diversity patterns of freshwater gastropods in Lake Victoria, Kenya.  Implications for biodiversity conservation and management of potential snail borne diseases (Lange)

4. Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin (Gonzalez)

1700 – 1730   Poster Presentations II (Chair: P. Tyson)

1730 – 1830   Poster viewing

Tuesday, 7 November 2006: Day Two (top)

0830 – 1030   Biogeochemical Cycles; Cryospheric Studies (Chair: G. McBean)

 1. Glacier fluctuations and downwasting in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram Himalayas (Haritashya)

2. Glaciological and meteorological studies along a traverse line from ice-sheet coast to summit, Antarctica (Xiao)

3. Effects of drainage and 21st century warming on the greenhouse impact of western Siberian mires (Borren)

4. Evidence of changes in the nitrogen cycle along a secondary forest chronosequence in eastern Amazonia (Figueira)

5. Interactions between climate and land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau (Cui)

6. Investigating the sources of organic carbon aerosol to the atmosphere (Heald)

7. Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on regional climate over East Asia (Huang)

8. Climate change and atmospheric aerosols in the Arabian Gulf region (Ross)

1030 – 1100   Break

1100 – 1200   Poster Presentations III (Chair: P. Tyson)

1200 – 1300   Lunch

1300 – 1500   Human Vulnerability and Risk Management (Chair:, R. Kasperson)

1. A Proximal Framework for Modeling Urban Carbon Contributions (Reilly)

2. Global Urban Estimates: A Comparison (Potere)

3. An Integrated Assessment of the interaction between human society and global air quality (Tong)

4. The Optimal Portfolio of Mitigation and Adaptation as Climate Change Risk Management Strategies (Felgenhauer)

6. Remittances, culture and natural disasters: The impact of Niue’s Cyclone Heta, 2004 (Warrick)

7. Artisanal fisheries management in the context of decentralization and climate variability: exploring the linkages between local and higher level institutions in Peru (Badjack)

8. Local knowledge and adaptation to climate change – a synthesized means to engage the local community into the research process (Luong Quang)

1500 – 1530   Break

1530 – 1630   Global Change and Agricultural Systems (Chair: A. Mohamed)

1. Climate Change in Agricultural Production in China: Past and Future (Tao)

2.  Agent-based model of land use change in traditional agricultural landscape in various climate, policy and socio-economic scenarios (Dabin)

3. Trends in climate extremes and implications to agriculture over southern Africa (Mdoka)

4. Dynamic adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change. Will climate change take care of itself? (Meza)

1630 – 1700   Poster Presentations IV (Chair: P. Tyson)

1700 – 1830   Poster viewing

Wednesday, 8 November 2006: Day Three (top)

O830 – 0930  Panel Discussion:  Opportunities for Young Scientists in GC Research and Funding

(Chair: G. Breulman)

0930 – 1030  Crutzen Lecture & discussion  (Chair: G. Pearman)

1030 – 1100  Break

1100 – 1200  Best Paper and Best Poster Prizes and closing remarks (by Peter Tyson)

Thursday - Saturday , 9 - 12 November 2006: ESSP Open Science Conference (top)

Please see the ESSP OSC website for more details : http://www.essp.org/ESSP2006/index.html

Monday 13 November 2006: Check out and departure (top)