Climate Change Conference and Workshop

Update - Climate Change Conference and Workshop

All participants listed below are now booked  into the Station Hotel in Ellon, Wednesday 6, except those marked with an (*), who made alternative arrangements. 

Please email Cris Simonetti to confirm your attendance to the the dinner on Wednesday evening and if those booked in the hotel could confirm their interest in staying over night. 

Participants:

A.     External participants:

1)   Terry Dawson (University of Dundee) (*)

2)   Annabel Drysdale (Scottish Natural Heritage) (*)

3)   Pete Langdon (University of Southampton)

B.     Participants from Aberdeen:

4)   Jill Barber (The North) (*)

5)   Alastair Dawson (Geography)

6)   Kevin Edwards (Geography)

7)   Craig Frew (Geography)

8)   David Green (Geography) (*)

9)   Tim Ingold (Anthropology) (TBC)

10) Georgios Kazanidis (Oceanlab)

11) Anni Mäkelä (Oceanlab) 

12) Tim Mighall (Geography) (*)

13) Lukasz Mikolajczyk (Archaeology)

14) Karen Milek (Archaeology)

15) Frederik Pedersen (History) (*)

16) Brice Rea (Geography)

17) Ed Schofield (Geography)

18) Cris Simonetti (Anthropology)

19) Matteo Spagnolo (Geography) (*)

20) Ursula Witte (Oceanlab) (*)

Alastair Dawson alastair.dawson@abdn.ac.uk  www.abdn.ac.uk/the-north/research/climate-change/ cordially welcomes all NORTH participants and members of the public to participate in this meeting

Lunch will be provided at no cost for all speakers at the Station Hotel, Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Members of the public can also stay for the lunch at their own expense. 

After lunch, all are invited to the field excursion at the Forvie Nature Reserve during the afternoon of Wednesday, 6 November (own transport required) and to attend a series of invited paper presentations during Thursday, 7 November.

The meeting will conclude with a discussion on an agenda for future research collaboration initiative and research priorities.

In the current debate on global climate change, much discussion has focused on the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere where rates of air temperature rise appear to be taking place much faster than across the low latitudes and other profound environmental changes also appear to be taking place. Many areas are experiencing rapid glacier thinning and retreat, Arctic sea ice cover is shrinking at an alarming rate. With these changes are other changes in Arctic land and marine ecosystems.

Programme

Wednesday  6 November

12:30-13:30  Lunch (Station Hotel, Ellon)

13:45-17:30  Fieldtrip (Forvie Nature Reserve)

18:30  Evening meal (Station Hotel, Ellon)

Thursday 7 November (Station Hotel, Ellon)

08:00-09:00  Breakfast

09:15-09:20  Alastair Dawson: ‘Introduction and Welcome’.

09:20-10:20  Pete Langdon: ‘Reconstructing northern paleoclimates for the Lateglacial and early Holocene’.

10:20-11:00  Craig Frew: ‘Reconstructing Little Ice Age paleoenvironments’.

11:00-11:30  Coffee break.

11:30-12:10  Anni Mäkelä:  ‘Rapid climate change and marine benthic ecosystem functioning in the Arctic’.

12:10-12:50  Lukasz Mikolajczyk: ‘Archaeological coastal constructions in the North as a proxy for maritime adaptive strategies during periods of climate change’.

12:50-14:00  Lunch.

14:00-14:40  Cris Simonetti: ‘Experiencing climate change: Scales, speed and the compression of past and future’.

14:40-15:40  Doug Benn: 'Changing climate, changing ice: glacier hazards from the Little Ice Age to the present'.

15:40-16:00 Coffee break.

16:00-16:20 Terry Dawson: 'Incorporating dynamic migration models into paleoecological reconstructions'.

16:20-16:30  General discussion.