PROGRAMME

Wednesday April 26

1800-2000        Steering Committee

Thursday April 27

0900-0905       Welcome and organisational points - Eiliv Larsen, John Birks, Atle Nesje

0905-0915       Terje Mørland (NFR) - NFR's Climate & Ozone Programme

LAKE ARCHIVES & HISTORICAL DATA

Chair:  Eiliv Larsen

  0915-1000      Svein Olaf Dahl & Atle Nesje. Holocene glacier fluctuations and variations in winter precipitation. Examples from Hardangerjøkulen and Jostedalsbreen, southern Norway.

1000-1015       Discussion

1015-1045      Coffee

1045-1130       Hilary H. Birks. Late-glacial and early Holocene climate reconstructions at Kråkenes, western Norway

1130-1145       Discussion

1145-1200       Atle Nesje & Svein Olaf Dahl. Holocene glacier fluctuations in southern Norway based on pro-glacial lakes and terrestrial sites.

1200-1215        H.J.B. Birks. Quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate: an Oslo to Trondheim transect.

1215-1230        Discussion

1230-1330        Lunch

Chair: John Birks

1330-1345        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.

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. Climate reconstruction of summer temperature in south-eastern Norway based on instrumental and proxy observations.

1445-1500        Discussion

1500-1530        Coffee

MARINE ARCHIVES

Chair: Jon Landvik

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

2000-2230        Social Function

  Friday April 28

ICE-SHEET DIMENSIONS

Chair: Atle Nesje

0800-0805       Jon Landvik. An Introduction to the Ice-sheet Dimensions Project.

0805-0820       Lars Olsen, A. Reite & H. Sveian. Glacial variations based on Middle and Lake Weichselian    stratigraphies along a NW-SE transect from coast to inland in the Trondheimfjord area.

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 Landvik & Otto Salvigsen. Vertical extent and configuration of the west part of the last Barents 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 & MODELLING

Chair: Hans Petter Sejrup

1020-1045       H.J.B. Birks. Transfer functions for quantitative palaeoclimatic research in Norway.

1045-1115       Sigbjørn Grønås. The RegClim Project

1115-1130       Discussion

1130-1215       Paul Cutler. Numerical modelling of ice sheets: Building bridges between glaciology and glacial geology.

1215-1230       Discussion

1230-1315       Lunch

1315-1400       Mary Edwards. Paleoclimatic studies in Beringia: examples of recent research sponsored by the PALE/PARCS initiative.

1400-1415       Discussion

  CLOSING SESSION

Chair: Eiliv Larsen

1415-1500       Concluding Discussion and Close. Eiliv Larsen

1530-1700       Steering Committee