Thursday 22.10.09

16:00 – 19:00 Registration
20:00 Ice-breaker Party

Friday 23.10.09

08:50 – 09:00 Opening Word
09:00 – 09:20 M. Sarnthein: The “Panama Hypothesis“ on the Onset of Quaternary-Style Climates –– a Resumé
09:20 – 09:40 J. Groeneveld: Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 96-101: The glacial induced closure of the Panamanian Gateway
09:40 – 10:00 C. Karas: Mid-Pliocene impact of the restricted Indonesian Gateway on ocean circulation and climate
10:00 – 10:20 A. Csank: Tales from ancient forests: multi-proxy reconstructions of Pliocene Arctic climate using tree-rings, tree-ring isotopes, moss and molluscs
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00 K. Sniderman: The nature and evolution of Pliocene vegetation and climates in southern Australia
11:00 – 11:20 W. Kürschner: Pliocene palaeo-atmospheric CO2 proxy records, a comparison of marine and terrestrial proxies
11:20 – 11:40 G. Bartoli: Pliocene atmospheric CO2 changes
11:40 – 12:00 M. Pagani: High climate sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 for the past 5 million years
12:00 – 12:20 G. Paris: Isotopic composition of boron in seawater during the Messinian: is Pliocene boron isotope proxy relevant?
12:20 – 13:00 Posters
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 N. Khélifi: Potential links between changes in Mediterranean Outflow Water and North Atlantic Deep Water formation, 3.6 – 2.6 Ma ago
14:20 – 14:40 B. Risebrobakken: Latitudinal temperature gradients during the Pliocene warm phase
14:40 – 15:00 S. De Schepper: North Atlantic Current variability through Marine Isotope Stage MIS M2 (ca. 3.3 Ma)
15:00 – 15:20 D. Naafs: Pliocene climate and Northern Hemisphere Glaciation as seen from the North Atlantic
15:20 – 15:40 P. Sexton: A persistent “glacial-like” Atlantic overturning circulation regime during the intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30  Group Discussions: Global impact of gateways
17:30 – 18:00 Reporting of Panels
18:30 – 19:00 Keynote Lecture – R. Tiedemann: Tropical Pacific climate change during the Pliocene – causes and consequences
19:00  End

Saturday 24.10.09

09:00 – 09:20 J. LaRiviere: Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature Records from the mid-Latitude North Pacific
09:20 – 09:40 G. Swann: Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the Late Pliocene
09:40 – 10:00 S. Jaccard: Subarctic Pacific evidence for enhanced abyssal sequestration of respired carbon at the onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, 2.7 Ma
10:00 – 10:20 A. Martinez-Garcia: Plio-Pleistocene evolution of Subantarctic Atlantic temperatures: Implications for the dynamics of the Antarctic ice-sheet
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00 M. Williams: A high fidelity molluscan climate record of the Weddell Sea for a warm interval of the Early Pliocene
11:00 – 11:20 H. Dowsett: Global ocean thermal structure during the mid-Pliocene: Data indicate increased northern component deepwater production
11:20 – 11:40 N. Scroxton: Characterising the Pliocene Equatorial Warm Pool from Individual Foraminifera
11:40 – 12:00 J. Sliko: Pliocene corals, rainfall, and El Niño teleconnections
12:00 – 12:20 M. Medina-Elizalde: Tropical Pacific thermal evolution, the 100 ky cycles, and the role of greenhouse gases during the late Pliocene glaciations
12:20 – 13:00 Posters
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 Z. Liu: Plio-Pleistocene SST Changes in Warm Pool Regions
14:20 – 14:40 C. Bolton: Evolution of nutricline dynamics in the equatorial Pacific during the late Pliocene
14:40 – 15:00 J. Etourneau: Reconstruction of both Walker and Hadley circulations during the Plio-Pleistocene climate transition
15:00 – 15:20 C. Ravelo: El Padre in the Pliocene: What lies beneath?
15:20 – 15:40 A. Fedorov: Expansion of the Tropical Warm Pool, Permanent El Niño conditions, and Climate Feedbacks in the Early Pliocene
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30  Group Discussions: High- vs. low-latitude interactions
17:30 – 18:00 Reporting of Panels
18:30 – 19:00 Keynote Lecture – A. Haywood: Progress, Uncertainties and Opportunities in Reconstructing & Modelling Mid-Pliocene Climate/Environments
19:00 – 20:00 Round table discussion: The near future drilling targets
20:00  End

Sunday 25.10.09

08:40 – 09:00 U. Mikolajewicz: Modelling the effect of an open Isthmus of Panama
09:00 – 09:20 A. Jost: High resolution climate and vegetation simulations of the mid-Pliocene, a model-data comparison over western Europe and the Mediterranean region
09:20 – 09:40 U. Salzmann: A New BIOME4-based Data/Model Hybrid Vegetation Reconstruction for the Middle Pliocene (Piacenzian Stage)
09:40 – 10:00 S. Bonham: HadCM3 Simulations of ENSO behaviour during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period
10:00 – 10:20 D. Hill: Modelling Pliocene East Antarctica: reconciling ice sheet retreat and evidence for stability
10:20 – 10:40 D. Lunt: An estimate of Earth System Sensitivity from the Pliocene
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Group Discussions: Modeling the Pliocene climate
12:30 – 13:00 Reporting of Panels
13:00 – 13:30 Round table discussion: The future Pliocene research
13:30 – 14:30  Lunch
14:30 – 18:30 Excursion: “Wine and Terroir”
19:00 End