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
Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus
on Information Sharing and Dynamic Data Analysis.
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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