14th Annual
Thursday, May 11
8:00 – Coffee and Pastries
8:25 – Gordon Hamilton “Welcome and introduction ”
8:30 – Peter Leach, Daniel Belknap “Methods for reconstructing paleogeography from two-dimensional seismic profiles in Damariscotta River, Maine, USA”
8:45 – Alice Kelley “Archaeological Geology of the Central Penobscot Valley: Where Do We Go From Here?”
9:00 – Erich Osterberg, Paul Mayewski, David Fisher, Karl Kreutz, Sharon Sneed, Mike Handley, Andrei Kurbatov “An ice core record of Holocene climate change, trans-Pacific dust flux, and anthropogenic pollution in the North Pacific: Mt. Logan, Yukon, Canada”
9:15 – Nathan W. Vogan, Karl J. Kreutz, Erich Osterberg, Alan Wanamaker, Cameron Wake, Chris Zdanowicz “Meteorological Controls on Snow Accumulation and Atmospheric Chemistry in the St. Elias Mountains from the Eclipse Icefield”
9:30 – Alan Wanamaker, Karl Kreutz, Bernd Schöne, Harold Borns, Douglas Introne, Scott Feindell “Ocean climate variability in the Gulf of Maine, USA during the late Holocene inferred from isotope profiles and growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)”
9:45 – Karl Kreutz, Paul Mayewski, Eric Meyerson, Andrei Kurbatov, Sharon Sneed “Was there a change in Southern Ocean productivity during the LGM?”
10:00 – BREAK
10:30 – Stephen Norton, Kyle Coolidge, Aria Amirbahman, Jirí Kopácek, Roy Bouchard “Speciation of Al, Fe, and P in recent sediment of three Maine lakes, USA: Al, Fe, and P dynamics in Maine lakes over the last 500 years”
10:45 – Brian Robinson “Fine-Tuning the Bull Brook Artifact Catalog”
11:00 – Jennifer Ort “Lithic Analysis and the Bull Brook Settlement Pattern”
11:15 – Woodrow Thompson, Harold Borns “Deglaciation chronology, correlation of moraine systems, and the Older Dryas ice margin in southern Maine and northern New Hampshire”
11:30 – Harold Borns, Brenda Hall, Andrea Nurse “Is “Bölling, Warming recorded by the Southeastern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet”
11:45 – Gary Hoyle “The art and science of reconstructing a landscape of Acadia National Park at 13,000 B.P.”
12:00 – LUNCH
1:00 – Bill Sneed “Determining surface meltwater pond volume using satellite imagery”
1:15 – Coen Hofstede “Exercises in geometry: water pressure ratio, a possible mechanism for ice streams”
1:30 – Daniel Breton “Design of a Gamma-ray Density Gauge for Ice and Firn”
1:45 – Tom Kellogg, Davida Kellogg “Frozen In Time: The Diatom Record In Ice Cores From Remote Drilling Sites on the Antarctic Ice Sheets
2:00 – Joseph Kelley, Daniel Belknap, Andrew Cooper “Sea-Level Change in Northern Ireland: Looking Closer at the Highstand-Lowstand-Mid-Holocene Highstand”
2:15 – Terence Hughes “Variations of Ice-Bed Coupling Beneath Ice Streams”
2:30 – BREAK
3:00 – Daniel Sandweiss, Kirk Maasch “Correlating a New Climate Record with Cultural Change in the Lambayeque Valley, Peru”
3:15 – Christopher Miller “Geoarcheological Setting of the Sebasticook Lake Fish Weir, Newport, Maine”
3:30 – Bertrand Pelletier “Glacial Lake Levels and Paleoindian Settlement at the Munsungun Chert Source, Northern Maine”
3:45 – Bruce Williamson, Karl Kreutz, Steven Arcone, Erich Osterberg, Beth Bartel, Bjorn Johns, Seth White “Surface velocities and flow dynamics for the Clark, Commonwealth and Blue Glaciers in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica”
4:00 – Elena Korotkikh, Gordon Hamilton, Paul Mayewski “High resolution records of Eemian interglacial from Mount Moulton (Antarctica)”
4:15 – George Jacobson “Global climate change: High stakes challenges for international, regional and local science and policy”
4:30 – Leigh Stearns, Susan Kaspari, ClimatePolicy Working Group “Initiating a University of Maine Greenhouse Gas Inventory”Friday, May 12
8:00 – Coffee and Pastries
8:30 – Andrea Nurse, Hal Borns, Ann Dieffenbacher, James Fastook “Geologic and paleoecologic evidence of ice-mass advance in northern Maine during the Younger Dryas cold reversal”
8:45 – Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall, Marcus Vandergoes, Rewi Newnham, George Denton “An Inference Model for Mean Summer Temperatures During the Late Glacial Transition in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Using Subfossil Chironomids”
9:00 – Leigh Stearns “Large and rapid ice volume losses from two East Greenland outlet glaciers”
9:15 – Gordon Oswald “Subglacial Melt in Northern Greenland”
9:30 – James Fastook “Embedded Models: Application to the Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea Sectors, Retreat from LGM”
9:45 – Gordon Hamilton, Leigh Stearns “Rapid changes of Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers – which came first: acceleration, retreat, or thinning?”
10:00 – BREAK
10:30 – Kirk Maasch, Paul Mayewski “Is Recent Global Warming Natural or Human Induced?”
10:45 – Paul Andrew Mayewski, Gordon Hamilton, Dan Dixon, Susan Kaspari, Leigh Stearns, Sharon Sneed, Kirk Maasch, Ann Zielinski, Mike Handley “State of the Climate Over West Antarctica: Preparing the Basis for Understanding Past, Present, and Future Climate Change Over Antarctica and Adjacent Southern Ocean”
11:00 – KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paul R. Epstein “Climate Instability: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions”
12:00 – LUNCH
1:00 – Kurt Rademaker, Gordon Bromley, Louis Fortin “Fire and ice: Volcanic glass, glaciers, and the initial settlement of southern Peru”
1:15 – Louis Fortin “The Archaeological Importance of Obsidian and Macusanite
in the Southern Peruvian Highlands”
1:30 – Gordon Bromley, Brenda Hall, Kurt Rademaker “Late Quaternary climate records from Nevados Firura and Coropuna, southern Peru”
1:45 – Paul Roscoe “Fish, game and the foundations of complexity in forager society: the evidence from New Guinea”
2:00 – Kristin Sobolik “MEBonz:Zooarchaeology Working Group Projects2:15 – Andrei Kurbatov, Paul Mayewski, Bashar Abdul Jawad “Update on Ice Core Dating Software
2:30 – BREAK
3:00 – Daniel A. Dixon, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Susan Kaspari, Sharon Sneed, Mike Handley, Kirk Maasch, Karl Kreutz, Gordon Hamilton, Andrew Carleton “Major Ion, Trace Element And Water Isotope Measurements From The 2002 And 2003 US ITASE Traverses”
3:15 – Susan Kaspari, Paul Mayewski, Shichang Kang, Sharon Sneed, Karl Kreutz, Douglas Introne, Roger Hooke, Kirk Maasch, Dahe Qin “Weakening of the South Asian Monsoon Since 1400 A.D. from a Mt. Everest Ice Core”
3:30 – Bjorn Grigholm, Paul Mayewski, Susan Kaspari, Sharon Sneed, and Michael Handley, Vladimir Aizen, Elena Aizen, Daniel Joswiak, Arzhan Surazakov, John Marshall, Michael Krachler “Seasonal stable isotope and trace element records from Fedchenko Glacier, Central Asia”
3:45 – Sean Birkel, George Denton, James Fastook, David Battisti “Could the Orographic Influence of the Laurentide Ice Sheet have Triggered “Jet Jumps” across the Northern Hemisphere?”
4:00 – Daniel Belknap, Joseph Kelley “Deglaciation to modern stratigraphy and evolution of Maine lakes”
4:15 – Audrey Bamberg “Geologic and biologic proxy records for paleoclimate in the Antarctic”
4:30 – Brenda Hall, Charles Porter “Late Holocene ice fluctuations in the Cordillera Darwin, Chile”