DIMACS Workshop on Geological data fusion: Tackling the statistical challenges of interpreting past environmental change

January 17 - 18, 2013
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Robert Kopp, Rutgers University, Robert.Kopp at rutgers.edu

Frederik Simons, Princeton University, fjsimons at princeton.edu

Workshop Program:

Thursday, January 17, 2013 

 8:00 -  8:45  Breakfast and Registration

 8:45 -  9:00  Welcome

Session 1: Paleo-temperature and inference about climate sensitivity	

 9:00 -  9:40  On the simultaneous inference of past temperatures and climate sensitivity
               Martin Tingley, Harvard University

 9:40 - 10:00  Climate sensitivities
               Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS

10:00 - 10:20  Novel high dimensional statistical methodology for multiproxy
               paleoclimate reconstructions 	
               Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University

10:20 - 10:30  Coffee Break

10:30 - 10:50  Climate sensitivity estimated from the Last Glacial Maximum
               Nathan Urban, LANL

10:50 - 11:30  Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity?
               Julia Hargreaves, JAMSTEC

11:30 - 12:00  Discussion

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch and Poster Session
			
Session 2: Spectral analysis and the identification of climatic pacemakers	

 1:00 -  1:10  Director's Welcome 
               Rebecca Wright, Director of DIMACS
               
 1:10 -  1:50  Some observations on the problem of recovering time scales in paleo data
               David Thomson, Queen's University
	       	
 1:50 -  2:10  Spectral Coherence Evidence for Oceanic Control of Interannual Carbon Cycle Feedbacks
               Jeffrey Park, Yale

 2:10 -  2:40  Patterns in Static 
               Stephen Meyers, U. Wisconsin

 2:40 -  3:20  Complex signal analysis of paleoclimatic time series                             
               Linda Hinnov, Johns Hopkins

 3:20 -  3:50  Discussion

 3:50 -  4:00  Coffee Break

Session 3: Paleo-climate and paleo-ecological inference	

 4:00 -  4:40  Using spatio-temporal statistical modeling for 
               paleoecological reconstruction and uncertainty characterization
               Chris Paciorek, Berkeley
              
 4:40 -  5:00  Climate information from tree-rings: state-of-the-art 
               and existing challenges 
               Kevin Anchukaitis, WHOI
		
 5:00 -  5:20  Assimilating paleoecological data into land surface & biogeochemical models
               Michael Dietze, Boston U.
		
 5:20 -  6:00  Time-uncertainty in paleoclimate proxy records and implications for climate reconstruction						
               Jessica Tierney, WHOI

 6:00 -  6:30  Discussion	

 6:30 -  6:45  Closing Remarks
			
 6:45          Dinner - DIMACS 4th Floor Lounge (Room 401)

Friday, January 18, 2013 

 8:15 -  8:45  Breakfast and Registration

 8:45 -  9:00  Meeting resumes

Session 4: Paleo-sea level and inference about ice sheet stability		
	
 9:00 -  9:40  Sea-level change along the Atlantic coast of the United States
               Ben Horton, U. Penn

 9:40 - 10:00  Can we determine sea level rise acceleration from the instrumental record?
               Gary Mitchum, U. South Florida

10:00 - 10:20  Reducing uncertainty in future sea level rise contributions 
               from the Greenland Ice Sheet using geological data
               Patrick Applegate, Penn State
		
10:20 - 10:30  Coffee Break
		
10:30 - 10:50  A Rapid Ice-Melt sea level rise scenario, based on the Last Glacial Termination
               Vivien Gornitz, Columbia University
		
10:50 - 11:30  Bayesian inference on sea level and ice volume history during past interglacials
               Bob Kopp, Rutgers University

11:30 - 12:00  Discussion		

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch and Poster Session
			
 1:00 -  2:00  Poster Session
			
Session 5: Paleo-environmental reconstructions and the character of the sedimentary record		

 2:00 -  2:40  Inference on Earth surface evolution from the stratigraphic record
               Rina Schumer, Desert Research Institute
	
 2:40 -  3:00  Birth, life and fate of continental sediment in the wake of climate change and mountain uplift
               Jane Willenbring, U. Penn
		
 3:00 -  3:40  The process signal of gaps in the continental shelf and deep sea sedimentary records
               Shanan Peters, U. Wisconsin

 3:40  - 4:00  Discussion
		
 4:00 -  4:10  Coffee Break
			
Session 6: Geological data fusion		

 4:10 -  5:00  Concluding Session

 5:00 -  5:30  Closing remarks  

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