~ 2nd International Young Scientists' Global Change Conference ~ 7-8 November 2006 ~ Beijing, China ~


Information for Posters

**Each participant preparing a poster only (ie. not also presenting a paper) for the conference will be given the opportunity to present a short, 2 minute, oral summary of their research.

Guidelines for Presentations of Posters (PDF)

Poster Agenda (PDF)

Guidelines for Oral Presentation of Poster Research

1. The time for the presentation to the plenary session will be 2 minutes. The Chair will not allow you to continue any longer than the allotted time.

2. Presentation will be made by Powerpoint and you will be allowed only two slides. You should bring two back-up overheads for use in an emergency should problems arise with Powerpoint projection.

 3. The first slide must contain the title of the poster, the authors and their affiliations; the second must contain the most important Figure(s) presented in the poster (and it is to this overhead that you speak in the presentation). 

4. Allow 10 seconds only for the presentation of the title overhead and do not speak to it in any detail, instead assume the audience can read what is on the overhead. 

5. Do not present an outline of your poster (i.e., do not say what you are about to do in your 2-minute presentation); do not discuss your data and methodology; just get straight to the scientific point(s) you wish to make.

6. Stress the main scientific finding(s) in your poster in order to whet the appetites of the audience sufficiently to make them want to come and view the poster.

7. Do not conclude your presentation with acknowledgements of the help you have received. Rather end on a high scientific note. 

8. Many people find it difficult to talk to a paper/poster. If you are such a person, then read from a script what you want to say. This is perfectly acceptable; many would say that this is the best way of presenting papers. It is certainly the best way of guaranteeing that you say exactly what you want to in the clearest, most precise way possible. 

9. NB. It is essential to practice your presentation in private with a stopwatch in order to be sure you can complete your presentation in 2 minutes or less.

10. You may wish to hand out an extended abstract containing figures when you are in attendance with your poster.  This will be appropriate, but it is not required.  Bring your own handouts; copying facilities will not be provided for this purpose.  It is expected that about 130 people will attend the YSC.


Guidelines for Posters

The boards have a usable area of 120 cm high x 90 cm wide. Be prepared with your own material (thumb tacks and masking tape) to secure items to the boards.

Each poster is required to contain a panel listing the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s) and a copy of your abstract in large type (increase by photocopy).

The following guidelines may prove helpful in the preparation of your poster.

-       Use the largest possible type size, and bullet your major points. Text should be printed in fonts of 1.5 cm height. Hand-lettered materials are not recommended.

-       Professionally drawn charts, tables and graphics will greatly increase the effectiveness of any poster. Illustrations and tables should be kept relatively simple to maximize legibility. Avoid "artsy" style and keep captions brief.

-       Lines in graphs should be heavy. Choose colors that are easily distinguishable from one another. Symbols, letters and numbers should be large enough to be seen from a distance of six feet.

-       Contrast is important. A backing of colored paper or posterboard for each item of your poster will make it more attractive. Consider using different colored backings to help group your major headings.

-       It's easier to read a poster if the information is arranged in vertical columns rather than horizontal strips.

AGENDA FOR 2 MIN. ORAL PRESENTATIONS BY CONFERENCE POSTER PARTICIPANTS

Session : I - II - III - IV

Poster Session I

Monday, November 6, 1130-1230

  1. Future change in the frequency of warm and cold spell durations over Pakistan simulated by the PRECIS regional climate model (S. Islam)
  2. Trend analysis of CTM derived northern hemisphere winter total ozone using self-consistent proxies: How well can we explain dynamically induced trends? (A. Jrrar)
  3. Warming of the eastern equatorial pacific over the last two centuries and implications for the tropical pacific western North American drought teleconnection (J. Conroy)
  4. The influence of climate change on organic chemicals distribution and fate: overview and a case study application (M. Dalla Valle)
  5. Abrupt climate changes in the late Pleistocene (S. Dallmeier-Tiessen)
  6. Equatorial Pacific climate changes during the last 1.8 Myrs: a key to the onset of the glaciations (T. de Garidel-Thoron)
  7. Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 Years: An improved ice core based index for climate models (C. Gao)
  8. Paleoclimatic changes and human settlement during the Holocene on the semiarid coast of Chile (32ºS) (A. Maldonado)
  9. The spatiotemporal structure of the long-term global warming trend and the Pacific pan-decadal variability in the middle and low latitudes based on observed and reanalyses data (J. Chen)
  10. Dynamics of the Senegalese’s Niayes ecosystems in relation to recent climate variability (L. Aguiar)
  11. The role of a foundation species in the response of a New England salt marsh to global warming (K. Bromberg)
  12. Simulating the impact of climate change on the water balance components in a medium size and monsoon – affected watershed (S. Kurnianto)
  13. Effects of simulated ozone depletion on phytoplankton photoprotection at three different latitudes (B. Mohovic)
  14. Modeling zooxanthellae densities in corals: Predicting reef coral response to climate change (K. Shiroma)
  15. Study on the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on nitrogen and carbon fixation by the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium (H. Biswas)
  16. Importance of biological consumption as a sink for dimethylsulfide (DMS) during spring and summer in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (D. Del Valle)
  17. Eddy Transports through the ACC region adjacent to the Weddell Sea (J. de Souza)
  18. Reconstructing climate change in the marine environment (L. Foster)
  19. Development of a framework to identify appropriate spatial and temporal scales for modelling N flows (E. Dumont)

 

Poster Session II

Monday, November 6, 1700-1730

 

  1. Climate warming and its impacts on ecosystems at Lake Hövsgöl, northern Mongolia (N. Banzragch)
  2. Forest policy and livelihood Strategies: The economic context of household afforestation in southwest China (L. Ediger)
  3. Satellite observations of fire-induced albedo changes and the associated radiative forcing: a comparison of boreal forests and tropical savannas (Y. Jin)
  4. Patterns of nitrogen limitation along the Kalahari Transect: Results from a stable isotope fertilization experiment (L. Wang)
  5. Modelling biodiversity loss by global warming on Pantepui, northern South America (S. Nogue)
  6. Biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning: Evidence from a natural ecosystem (P. Flombaum)
  7. The influence of climate change and anthropogenic factors on the distribution of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Del. in Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania (L. Jones)
  8. Modelled impacts of climate warming on the distributions of invasive European annual grasses in southern Africa (F. Parker-Allie)
  9. Modelling the distribution of plant species (J. Wang)
  10. Responses of Central Amazon biodiversity and carbon storage to altered disturbance regimes (A. Robertson)

 

Poster Session III

Tuesday, November 7, 1100-1200

 

  1. Glacial-interglacial changes in flow vigour of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: evidence from the Scotia Sea (R. Pugh)
  2. Cryospheric changes in the Antarctic Peninsula: The signal of glacier surfaces (J. Arigony-Neto)
  3. Influence of extreme events on the tree radial growth in the regional and global scales (O. Sidorova)
  4. Carbon exchange between atmosphere, soils and permafrost: Modelling results (N. Zimov)
  5. Dynamics of thaw subsidence in response to permafrost downward retreat at an European Russian CALM site, 1999-2005 (D. Kaverin)
  6. Convective lifting of South Asia pollution to the upper troposphere during the Asian Summer Monsoon: Linking regional pollution to global climate change (Q. Li)
  7. Regional and source contributions to INDOEX aerosols using the LMD-ZT general circulation model (S. Verma)
  8. Large contributions of particle formation to global atmospheric aerosol (D. Spracklen)
  9. Tree and ecosystem responses to four-year CO2 enrichment at the Swiss treeline (T. Handa)
  10. Multiple-scale terrestrial carbon flux responses to precipitation regime changes along a continental climate gradient (G. Jenerette)
  11. Production of isoprene from the interaction between dust particles and seawater (A. Batsaikhan)
  12. Spatial patterns of carbon residence times and sequestration capacity in conterminous USA (T. Zhou)
  13. Controls over carbon turnover in Arctic tundra (K. Holland)
  14. Soil carbon turnover in native subtropical tree plantations (A. Richards)
  15. Storage of soil organic and inorganic carbon and sequestration potential of soil carbon in China (S. Wang)
  16. Carbon Management technologies and public perception: A comparative assessment of the US and India (J. Stephens)
  17. The potential of ecological transition to provide environmental services in peri-urban subtropical forests of NW Argentina (M. Hernandez)
  18. Understanding Beijing’s dilemma by coupling cellular automata model and system dynamic model (C. He)
  19. Energy challenges for developing countries in a world of global environmental change (F. Urban)

 

Poster Session IV

Tuesday, November 7, 1630-1700

 

  1. Assessing adaptive capacity to tropical cyclones in the East coast of India: A pilot study of public response to cyclone warning information (U. Sharma)
  2. Natural   astaxanthin   production for the purpose of the maintenance of health under conditions of global environmental changes (N. Terentyeva)
  3. The potential of private forest management in climate change policy in Korea (K. Han)
  4. QSSI: a systems indicator for sustainability (J. Grosskurth)
  5. The postnormal science perspective on knowledge production in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Y. Yamineva)
  6. Inter-decadal climate variability in the Argentinean Pampas: Impacts of plausible future scenarios on agricultural systems (F. Bert)
  7. Modelling sugarcane response to rain fall variability affected by ENSO (El Niño-South Oscillation) (H. Medina)
  8. Vulnerability of wheat production in different climatic zones of Pakistan under climate change scenarios using CSM-CERES-Wheat Model (H. Sultana)
  9. A co-evolutionary perspective on agro-ecosystem change: Tobacco contracting and organic production in a small family farming community of southern Brazil (R. Moreno-Penaranda)
  10. OZBGM-C: A cross-sectional model for assessing the risk of climate change to Australian cereal production (B. Preston)