[Coral-List] Paleo Session - 6th European Coral Reef Conference 2006
Thomas Felis
tfelis at uni-bremen.de
Mon Mar 13 11:02:12 EST 2006
Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite submission of abstracts for a thematic
session on
Paleoenvironment reconstructions, paleontology (Session 1)
to be held at
The 6th European Coral Reef Conference 2006
European Meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies
(ISRS)
19-22 September 2006
Bremen, Germany
Co-chairs: Thomas Felis, Jens Zinke
Coral reefs provide high-resolution archives of local environmental
change at specific reef sites as well as large-scale variations in
ocean-atmosphere dynamics (e.g., the ENSO phenomenon). Recent
progress in proxy development and analytical techniques has
enabled reconstructions of temperature, hydrologic balance/salinity,
circulation, upwelling, terrestrial runoff and pH of the surface ocean
at subdecadal to subseasonal resolution. Most of these proxy
records are derived from massive annually-banded scleractinian
corals, supported by records generated from sclerosponges and
clams. Such paleoenvironmental records have a great potential to
bring environmental data from recently established reef monitoring
programmes and large-scale ocean observing systems into the long-
term context of the last centuries. In addition to living reefs, well-
dated fossil reefs and their paleogeographic distribution provide
crucial information on paleoclimate and sea-level changes in the
more distant geological past. Information on the response of reefs to
past environmental changes under boundary conditions different
from today provide an important benchmark in successfully
assessing and predicting the future of coral reefs in a changing
climate.
We expect a stimulating session on all aspects of and latest
developments in:
* Environmental records in reef organisms
* Fossil reefs and corals as archives
* Paleoclimate and sea-level change
* Paleogeographic distribution of reefs
* Reefs in siliciclastic settings
If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit
your abstract by May 15th at:
http://isrs2006.zmt.uni-bremen.de/regis.php
Click on 'Registration', go to 'Abstract Submission', and assign your
abstract to session [1]
"Paleoenvironment reconstructions, paleontology".
Please also forward copies of the abstract, indicating whether you
would prefer an oral or poster presentation, to us at:
tfelis at uni-bremen.de
and
jenszinke at falw.vu.nl
We look forward to your participation.
Regards
Thomas Felis and Jens Zinke
Dr Thomas Felis
DFG-Research Center for Ocean Margins
University of Bremen
GEO Building, Klagenfurter Str.
28359 Bremen
Germany
e-mail: tfelis at uni-bremen.de
phone: +49-(0)421-218-7769
fax: +49-(0)421-218-65505
http://www.rcom.marum.de/English/Dr._Thomas_Felis.html
Dr Jens Zinke
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
FALW, Dept. Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology
De Boelelaan 1085
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. 0031 20 598 73 27
Fax. 0031 20 598 99 41
email: jenszinke at falw.vu.nl
http://sheba.geo.vu.nl/~palmorph/
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