QUEST: Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System
QUEST OSC Programme
*Programme Update - 22 March 2007 (Session times indicative)*
All scientists with an interest in Earth system science are warmly invited to the first QUEST Open Science Conference. The conference aims to showcase diverse aspects of Earth system science and to strengthen the UK community of Earth system scientists.
Monday 26th March 2007 |
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Start of Open Science Conference: |
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| 15:30 | Welcome and opening remarks | Alan Thorpe (Chief Executive of NERC) |
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| 15:45 | QUEST: mainstreaming integrative research in the context of international global change science and climate policy | Colin Prentice (Leader of QUEST/ U of Bristol) | |
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16:30 | Keynote: Human dimensions of global environmental change | Diana Liverman (ECI Oxford/Tyndall Centre) |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Discussion | ||
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18:00 | First coach departure for conference dinner | |
| 18:40 | Final coach departure for conference dinner | ||
| 18:30 | Wine reception and Conference dinner (St Edmunds Hall, University of Oxford) |
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from 22:30 | Coaches will return participants to the hotel | |
Tuesday 27th March 2007 |
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Session 1: How important are biotic feedbacks for 21st century?
Co-chairs: John Pyle and Jo House |
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| 1-K |
09:00 | Keynote: Will the living planet save us from climate change? | Peter Cox (CLASSIC/U Exeter) |
| 1-1 | 09:30 | Observing the carbon cycle-climate feedback | Wolfgang Knorr (QUEST/ U of Bristol) |
| 1-2 | 09:45 | Quantifying carbon cycle and climate feedback | Jonathan Gregory (Met Office/U Reading) |
| 1-3 | 10:00 | Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using 5 Dynamic Global Vegetation Models | Stephen Sitch (Met Office) |
| 1-4 | 10:15 | Complex mechanisms dampen terrestrial carbon cycle feedback to climate warming: results from an experimental warming study in the Great Plains | Yiqi Luo (U Oklahoma) |
| 1-5 | 10:30 | Modelling Amazonian vegetation dynamics in reponse to climate change | Rosie Fisher (Sheffield) and Chris Huntingford (CEH) |
| 10:45 | Coffee and poster session in the lobby | ||
| 1-6 | 11:05 | Biogenic isoprene and 21st century atmospheric composition | Paul Young (U Cambridge) |
| 1-7 | 11:20 | The coastal-ocean’s role in the global carbon cycle: strategies for including shelf-seas in the Earth system models | Jason Holt (POL) |
| 1-8 | 11:35 | Contribution of the ocean to the increase in atmospheric CO2 growth rate | Corinne Le Quéré (UEA/BAS) |
| 1-9 | 11:50 | Dynamics of coupled systems with phytoplankton and grazers: building up complexity in ocean biogeochemistry modelling | Bablu Sinha/Tom Anderson (NOCS) |
| 1-10 | 12:05 | Ozone deposition processes at the surface and its role in the Earth System | Mhairi Coyle (CEH Edinburgh) |
| 12:20 | Discussion | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch in the Restaurant | ||
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Session 2: How are climate and atmospheric composition regulated on timescales up to a million years?
Co-chairs: Sandy Harrison and Marko Scholze |
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13:30 | Keynote: Understanding global biogeochemical cycles on a glacial/interglacial timescale: what have we overlooked? | Alayne Street-Perrott (U Swansea) |
| 2-1 | 14:00 | Variability in tropical circulation, climate and the hydrological cycle | Peter Baines (U Melbourne) |
| 2-2 | 14:15 | The southern ocean and the enigmatic glacial-interglacial carbon cycle | Agatha de Boer (UEA) |
| 2-3 | 14:30 | Global change during the Eocene: a geologic tutorial on the long-term consequences of catastrophic CO2 release | Andy Ridgwell (U Bristol) |
| 2-4 | 14:45 | The use of palaeodata to constrain climate sensitivity: a review | Tamsin Edwards (U Bristol) |
| 2-5 | 15:00 | Linking glacial and future climates through an ensemble of GCM simulations | Julia Hargreaves (Frontier Research Centre for Global Change, Japan) |
| 2-6 | 15:15 | Greenland ice core records | Jørgen Peder Steffensen (Nils Bohr Inst., U Copenhagen) |
| 15:30 | Coffee and poster session | ||
| 2-7 | 15:50 | Methane and nitrous oxide in the ice core record | Eric Wolff (BAS) |
| 2-8 | 16:05 | Abrupt climate change and the carbon isotope composition of atmospheric methane | Jed Kaplan (Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland) |
| 2-9 | 16:20 | Antarctic link to deep flow speed variation during MIS 3 in the NW Atlantic | Babette Hoogakker (U of Cambridge) |
| 2-10 | 16:35 | The glacial-interglacial North Atlantic Deep Water paradigm tested | Jimin Yu & Harry Elderfield (U Cambridge) |
| 2-11 | 16:50 | Palaeofires: observations and simulations of the impact of climate change on biomass burning | Mitch Power (U Edinburgh) |
| 17.05 | Discussion | ||
| 17:30 | Posters | ||
| 19:00 | Dinner and Dance: 1950s night with dance teacher and DJ University Suite |
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Wednesday 28th March |
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Session 3a: How much climate (change) is dangerous?
Session 3b: How much can be avoided by managing the biosphere? Co-chairs Sarah Cornell and John Holmes (TBC) |
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09:00 | Keynote: Stacking up impacts: measuring vulnerability in a changing world | Nigel Arnell (U Southampton/Tyndall Centre) |
| 3-1 | 09:30 | Climate prediction for robust policy making | Jo House (QUEST/U of Bristol) |
| 3-2 | 09:45 | A palaeo perspective on contemporary climate change and its consequences for terrestrial ecosystems | Kathy Willis (U Oxford) |
| 3-3 | 10:00 | Is a weakening of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation dangerous climate change? | Till Kuhlbrodt (PIK) |
| 3-4 | 10:15 | How Mitigation Stymies Adaptation | Roger Pielke Jr. (CIRES, Colorado) |
| 3-5 | 10:30 | Dangerous climate change: Science as the evidence base for policy | Nicola Patmore (Defra) |
| 10:45 | Coffee and poster session | ||
| 3-6 | 11:10 | Linking mitigation and adaptation in the Caribbean tourism case | Fritz Reusswig (PIK) |
| 3-7 | 11:25 | Reducing emissions by avoided deforestation, policy context, science needs | Johannes Ebeling (Ecosecurities) |
| 3-8 | 11:40 | How much climate change can be avoided by managing the biosphere? The global contribution to mitigation from agriculture | Pete Smith (U Aberdeen) |
| 3-9 | 11:55 | Science needs for the UNFCC convention negotiations | Jim Penman (Defra) |
| 12:10 | Discussions | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch in the Restaurant | ||
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Session 4: Observing and Modelling the Earth System
Co chairs: Peter Cox and Wolfgang Knorr |
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13:30 | Keynote: Constraining Earth system models with satellite data | Shaun Quegan (CTCD/U Sheffield) |
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14:00 | Monitoring the global carbon cycle | Andrew Manning (QUEST Advanced Research Fellow, UEA) |
| 4-1 | 14:15 | Phytoplankton functional types derived from global remotely sensed ocean colour data using a bio-optical approach | Jim Aiken (CASIX/PML) |
| 4-2 | 14:30 | CARBO-OCEAN: towards a comprehensive mapping of atmosphere-ocean CO2 exchanges | Andy Watson (UEA) |
| 4-3 | 14:45 | Diagnosing land atmosphere feedbacks using remote sensing | Chris Taylor (CLASSIC/CEH) |
| 4-4 | 15:00 | Ocean data assimilation | Keith Haines and James While (ESSC) |
| 4-5 | 15:15 | Modelling ocean circulation, climate and oxygen isotopes in the ocean over the last 120,000 years | Robert Marsh (NOCS) |
| 15:30 | Coffee and poster session | ||
| 4-6 | 15:50 | Palaeoclimatic reconstructions from the Quaternary loess: filling the ‘gap’ in the DIRTMAP model | Barbara Maher (U Lancaster) |
| 4-7 | 16:05 | Insights into the performance of climate and Earth-system models through comparison with palaeo-data | Mary Edwards (U Southampton) |
| 4-8 | 16:20 | The NERC Data Grid | Helen Snaith (U Southampton) |
| 4-9 | 16:35 | Data needs of Defra | Andy Shaw (Defra) |
| 4-10 | 16:50 | The Earth System Atlas | Dork Sahagian (Lehigh, PA/co-chair of IGBP Earth System Atlas) |
| 17.05 | Discussion | ||
| 17:50 | Concluding remarks | Jill Jäger (SERI/acting chair of QUEST’s International Advisory Board |
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Close of Open Science Conference |
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| 19:30 | Dinner in the Restaurant | ||
| 20.30 | Early stage researchers’ networking event: café style discussions to develop a QUEST funded workshop (University Suite) |
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