Cenozoic Bi-polar Connections Over Millennia Session at the 33rd International Geological Congress

Dear colleagues,

The 33rd International Geological Congress takes place in the
beautiful city of Oslo, August 6-14, 2008, with an abundance of
exciting sessions. One of the major themes of the meeting is climate
change, especially in light of the International Polar Year with a
renewed focus on history of the Polar regions. We invite you to
submit abstracts concerning developing connections and modeling
between the polar regions.

AAB-02 Cenozoic Bi-polar Connections Over Millennia

Convenors:
Ross Powell (USA) ross@geol.niu.eduJulie Brigham-Grette (USA; contact
person: juliebg@geo.umass.edu)Tim Naish (NZ) Timothy.Naish@vuw.ac.nzMartin
Melles (DE) mmelles@uni-koeln.deKate Moran (USA) kate.moran@gso.uri.eduJan
Bachman (Sweden) backman@geo.su.se

Several innovative geological drilling projects (e.g. ACEX, ANDRILL,
BIPOMAC, Lake E, SHALDRIL and others) in the polar regions are in the
process of recovering long sedimentary records of climate and
environmental change for the past several hundreds to millions of
years. The theme of this session is to assess the initial results of
these drilling projects. Emphasis will be placed on the global nature
of Late Cenozoic change especially the timing and magnitude of past
climatic events on orbital- and millennial-scales and the interplay of
events at both poles. Contributions offering an assessment of the
polars in driving and amplifying global variability and the evolution
of polar regions are welcome. Other themes include mechanisms and
dynamics of glacial/interglacial and millennial-scale change over the
duration of the 41 ka and 100 ka orbital cycles for comparison with
other long records from the N. Atlantic, N. Pacific, and the Arctic
Ocean. Keynote talks in this session will introduce and summarize each
of the major completed and planned polar drilling projects. The
session is a contribution to the Bipolar Climate Machinery (BIPOMAC)
and Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) programs.

For more information about registration, housing, and program, see the
IGC homepage at www.33igc.org

Deadline for abstract submission is 29 February 2008 at 12.00 and
should specify Session AAB-02.