NORPAST meeting, University of Bergen, April 2000

Wednesday April 26

1400 - 1700 Steering Committee

Thursday April 27

0900 - 0905 Welcome - Eiliv Larsen

LAKE ARCHIVES & HISTORICAL DATA

0905 - 0950 Atle Nesje & Svein Olaf Dahl. Holocene glacial changes and winter precipitation: Examples from Hardangerjøkulen and Jostedalsbreen, southern Norway
0950 - 1000 Discussion
1000 - 1030 Coffee
1030 - 1115 Hilary Birks. Kråkenes: Biotic responses and magnitudes of climatic change in the lateglacial and Holocene
1115 - 1130 Discussion
1130 - 1145 Atle Nesje & Svein Olaf Dahl. Holocene glacier fluctuations in southern Norway based on pro-glacial lakes and terrestrial sites.
1145 - 1200 Hilary Birks. Lake sediments as archives of past climate in coastal Norway: High spatial and temporal resolution, multiproxy reconstructions of the       late-Weichselian and Holocene climate.
1200 - 1215 Karl Dag Vorren. Raised bogs as palaeo-climate archives.
1215 - 1230 Discussion
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1345 H.J.B.Birks. Quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate: an Oslo to Trondheim transect.
1345 - 1400 Kari Sletten & Lars Harald Blikra. Naturlig variabilitet i ekstreme vær-hendelser og klimaendringers effekt på skred og flom
1400 - 1415 Stein Erik Lauritzen.
1430 - 1445 Øyvind Nordli. Klimarekonstruksjoner ved hjelp av innsjøsediment (glødetap) og gardsdagbøker.
1445 - 1500 Discussion
1500 - 1515 Coffee

MARINE ARCHIVES

1530 - 1550 Morten Hald. High resolution palaeoclimate from the Last Glacial maximum to the present on the European Arctic Margin.
1550 - 1610 Hans Petter Sejrup. PASTNOMA - paleoclimate studies of the southern Norwegian continental margin and fjords.
1610 - 1630 Eystein Jansen. High resolution studies of ocean circulation during the Holocene-problems and possibilities.
1630 - 1700 Discussion
1900 - 2000 Posters
2000 - 2030 Social Function

Friday April 28

ICE-SHEET DIMENSIONS

0800 - 0805 Jon Landvik. An introduction to the Ice-sheet Dimensions Project.
0805 - 0820 Lars Olsen
0820 - 0835 Svein Olaf Dahl & Atle Nesje. The maximum vertical extent of the Late Weichselian Scandinavian ice sheet in Norway: Preliminary results along transects in Nordland/Troms (Senja to inner Troms, Andøya to Skenland) and from Oslo to Trondheim.
0835 - 0850 Bjørn Follestad. The style of the last deglaciation in the Folldal area.
0850 - 0905 Jon Lnadvik & Otto Salvigsen. Geometry of the Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet.
0905 - 0920 Dag Ottesen. Ice sheet dynamics on the Mid Norwegian continental shelf.
0920 - 0935 Eiliv Larsen. Contrasting timing between the last glacial maximum in SW and NE sectors of the Fennoscandian ice sheet.
0935 - 1000 Discussion
1000 - 1020 Coffee

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS & MODELING

1020 - 1045 H.J.B.Birks. Transfer functions for quantitative palaeoclimatic research in Norway.
1045 - 1115 RegClim
1115 - 1130 Discussion
1130 - 1215 Paul Cutler. Numerical modelling of ice sheets: Building bridges between glaciology and glacial history.
1215 - 1230 Discussion
1230 - 1315 Lunch
1315 - 1400 Mary Edwards.  Modelling, databases and palaeo-data/climate-model comparisons (tentative title).
1400 - 1415 Discussion
1415 - 1445 Concluding Discussion and Close - Eiliv Larsen

Information

Domestic arrangements - Atle Nesje et al. (Atle.Nesje@geol.uib.no)
Science programme - John Birks et al. (John.Birks@bot.uib.no)

• Main sessions in Auditorium 5, Geology Department
• Posters downstairs below the Cantine in the Realfagbyyget
• Steering Committee in Meeting room, Geology Department

Accomodation - participants are responsible for arranging their own accomodation. Accomodation details can be found on the following websites:http://www.bergen-travel.com/ and http://www.hotell-guide.com/

Contributors - although the meeting is open to all interested, oral and poster presentations can only be given by NORPAST participants or by invited keynote speakers.

Language – talks should, if possible, be given in English

Abstracts - it could be useful to have short 1/2 page abstracts for the meeting