HOLIVAR2006 - Programme
SC = South Cloisters, NC = North Cloisters, JBR = Jeremy Bentham Room (see
maps)
All presentations take place in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Cruciform Building.
All refreshments (tea, coffee and lunch) take place in the North Cloisters.
Monday 12th June, 2006
1500 - 1800 Theme 1 Poster Setup [SC]
1500 - 1800 Registration [NC]
1800 - 2000 Evening Reception [NC]
Tuesday 13th June 2006
0800 - 0900 Registration [NC]
0900 - 0930 Welcome by Professor Malcolm Grant, Provost and President of
UCL. Introduction by Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor, OST
0930 - 0945 Introduction to HOLIVAR, Rick Battarbee, HOLIVAR SSC Chair
0945 - 1025 Keynote 1 John Birks - Holocene
climate research - progress, paradigms and problems
1025 - 1105 Keynote 2 Paul Valdes - Climate
modelling of the Holocene: Recent progress and future prospects
1105 - 1155 Coffee [NC] and Theme 1 Posters
[SC]
1155 - 1235 Keynote 3 Frank Oldfield - The
role of people in the Holocene
Theme 1 Millennial Time Scales (Chair: Bernd Zolitschka)
1235 - 1315 Keynote 4 Eystein Jansen - North
Atlantic climate and ocean variability during the Holocene on multi-decadal
and longer time scales
1315 - 1435 Lunch [NC]
1435 - 1515 Keynote 5 Michel Crucifix - Modelling
of the evolution of climate during the Holocene
1515 - 1530 Theme 1 Posters Introduction: Christoph Spötl
1530 - 1610 Theme 1 Posters
[SC]
1610 - 1640 Tea [NC] and Theme 1 Posters
[SC]
1640 - 1720 Theme 1 Posters
[SC]
Theme 2 Decadal to Centennial Time Scales (Chair: Jonathan Holmes)
1720 - 1800 Keynote 6 Jürg Beer - Holocene climate change: evidence for solar and other forcings
1800 Close
Wednesday 14th June, 2006
0900 - 0940 Keynote 7 Bas van Geel - Holocene climate change on decadal to centennial time scales and the potential role of solar variability and other forcing factors
0940 - 0955 Theme 2 Posters Introduction: Bas van Geel
0955 - 1100 Theme 2 Posters [NC]
1100 - 1130 Coffee [NC] and Theme 2 Posters
[NC]
Theme 3 Climate Variability in the Last 2000 Years (Chair: Heinz
Wanner)
1130 - 1210 Keynote 8 Michael E. Mann - Reconstructions
of climate over the past two millennia
1210 - 1250 Keynote 9 Hugues Goosse - Simulating
the climate of the last two millennia: the role of internal and forced variability
1250 - 1305 Theme 3 Poster Introduction: Tim Osborn
1305 - 1405 Lunch [NC] and Theme 3 Posters
[SC]
1405 - 1530 Theme 3 Posters
[SC]
1530 - 1600 Tea [NC] and Theme 3 Posters
[SC]
Theme 4 Rapid Hydrological Change (Chair: Ingemar Renberg)
1600 - 1640 Keynote 10 Dirk Verschuren - Droughts
and floods: proxy records of rapid hydrological change during the Holocene
1640 - 1655 Theme 4 Poster Introduction: Dan Charman
1655 - 1800 Theme 4 Posters
[NC]
1900 Conference Dinner [JBR] Dinner is a self-service standing
buffet with a cash bar and costs £15.
Thursday 15th June, 2006
0900 - 0940 Keynote 11 Martin Claussen - Rapid
land cover changes - theory and potential implications
0940 - 1100 Theme 4 Posters
[NC]
1100 - 1130 Coffee [NC] and Theme 4 Posters
1130 - 1230 Keynote 12 Ray Bradley - Future
climate change: the need for a past perspective
1230 - 1400 Lunch [NC]
1400 - 1600 Final Panel (Chair: Ray Bradley) - Heike Langenberg (Nature), Chris Sear (DEFRA), Catherine Pearce (FoE) and Chris Mottershead (BP) More details
1600 Vote of thanks - Rick Battarbee
1615 Close