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United States: Wednesdays, 9-10am.
Climate System Research Center Seminar Room
Dept of Geosciences, UMass
Norway: Wednesdays, 3-4pm.
Geomorfologirommet
Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Bergen

Schedule of Speakers, Fall 2014

Sep 10: Kristian Vasskog, Unversity of Bergen:
North-Atlantic westerlies during the past millenium

Sep 17: Jim Kocis, Unversity of Massachusetts:
A molecular view of the last deglacial from the Pacific-Arctic Gateway
[Belt et al., 2013] [Muller et al., 2014]

Sep 24: Kerim Nisancioglu, Unversity of Bergen:
Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial cycle

Oct 1: Jon Woodruff, Unversity of Massachusetts:
Typhoon and tsunami reconstructions from coastal ponds in Japan
[Woodruff et al., 2009] [Furumura et al., 2009]

Oct 8: Kikki Kleiven, University of Bergen:
Coupled deep-water flow and climate variability in the middle Pleistocene North Atlantic
[Rahmstorf, 2002][Dokken et al., 2013]

Oct 15: Olga Solomina, University of Moscow:
Holocene glacier fluctuations
[Solomina et al., 2007] [Wanner et al., 2011]

Oct 22: Bjørg Risebrobakken, University of Bergen:
What happened in the Nordic Seas during the globally warmer Pliocene epoch?

Oct 29: Ed Gasson, Unversity of Massachusetts:
The stability of the Antarctic ice sheet during the past 34 million years
[Pollard et al., 2005][Foster et al., 2012]

Nov 5: Øyvind Paasche, University of Bergen:
Do we agree on the "Little Ice Age"?
[Matthews and Briffa, 2005][Mann et al., 2009]

Nov 26: Eystein Jansen, University of Bergen:
Paleoclimate as seen from IPPC AR5
[Chapter 5; Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]

Dec 3: Isla Castaneda, Unversity of Massachusetts:
Was the North African Humid Period an abrupt or gradual climate event?
[Tierney et al., 2013] [Weldeab et al., 2014]

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