[Coral-List] Call for Abstracts - YES Congress 2019 Berlin

[vanessa2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de]

Dear early career scientists,
 
we would like to invite contributions to the session “Palaeoclimate
reconstruction
using aquatic high-resolution archives” at the 5th YES Congress 2019 (9th -
13th
September) in Berlin. The YES congress is organized by the German Chapter of
the
Young Earth Scientists Network (YES), an international association of young
and
early career Earth scientists. The Congresses generally focus on climate,
environmental and geoscience challenges facing today’s society, as well as
career
and academic pathway challenges faced by early career geoscientists.
 
Please note: The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 18th February
2019.
 
To submit an abstract:
https://yesdeutschland.weebly.com/call-for-abstracts.html
 
Session abstract: 
 
On a climatic constantly changing planet, modern climatology faces the
challenge to
improve the knowledge about past and modern climate. The limited number of
observations and uneven data quality cause considerable uncertainties in our
understanding of important climate interactions. Especially, extending the
data set
beyond the instrumental record and increasing the data coverage in regions
with low
data density by using palaeoclimate proxy data is of crucial importance. A
huge and
in their proxy application rising number of aquatic organisms provide
high-resolution archives to constrain past seasonal, interannual, decadal
and
multi-centennial climate variability. This is of critical importance for
making
better assessments and predictions of the natural and anthropogenic impact
on key
drivers of large-scale climate phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation
(ENSO) and Thermohaline circulation (THC). Aquatic archives, such as
scleractinian
corals, bivalves, gastropods and sponges are a vital tool to unravel the
past and
present climate and environmental changes, and therefore to improve
understanding of
Earth’s climate system with its external and internal driven regional and
global
patterns, modes and teleconnections. 
 
Aquatic palaeoclimatology affords an opportunity for collaborations among
palaeoclimatologists, marine geologists and ecologists, carbonate
geochemists,
experts in biomineralisation, carbonate diagenesis and dating, climate
modellers and
climate dynamicists, in order to provide robust and innovative palaeoclimate
and
environmental reconstructions and interpretations. Therefore, we welcome a
wide
range of contributions on the development, calibration and verification of
new
proxies, dating and measuring methods and climatic, environmental and
ecological
reconstructions from aquatic high-resolution proxy archives. We are looking
forward
to experience input of a wide diversity of sites on all latitudes and water
depths,
ranging from deep sea organisms over the strongly endangered reef systems to
the
rivers and lakes of the adjacent continents, for new insights in a climatic
and
environmental changing planet.
 
Session format: Oral presentations, Poster session.
 
Conveners:
Vanessa Skiba (Freie Universität Berlin)
Christoph Gey (Freie Universität Berlin)