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This agenda also is available as a PDF file.
Also available:
CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products. Four-page background document (dated September 2007). In addition, it is available as a PDF file and can be ordered in hardcopy from the GCRIO Online Catalog |
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Objectives of the Meeting:
- Produce an outline of topics for consideration in the synthesis and assessment product
- Establish writing assignments and tasks
Meeting Venue:
Hyatt Regency Reston
Lake Thoreau room
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190
Monday, March 26
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Committee Member Registration / Meet and Greet
8:30 AM – 10:40AM Pre-workshop administrative matters (Non-Public Session)
- Jack McGeehin, USGS, on logistics of meeting / SAP timeline
- Nancy Baumgartner, USGS, on SGE status
- Cindy Cafaro, DOI, on FACA considerations
10:40AM – 11:00AM Break
11:00AM – 12:00PM Start of Workshop (Public Session)
- Opening statements: Dr. Mark Myers, Director USGS
- Public comments
- Peter Schultz, CCSP
12:00PM – 1:15PM Lunch
1:15PM – 1:30PM
- Afternoon announcements
- General questions and answers
1:30PM – 3:25PM Rapid Changes in Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Format: 35 minutes presentations including questions for clarification; 10 minute stretch break
- Topic speakers
- Konrad Steffen, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, USA: “Cryospheric Contributions to Sea-Level Rise and Variability”
- Robert Thomas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, USA: "Ice-sheet contributions to sea-level change"
- Shawn Marshall, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada: "Sea level rise past, present, and future: the perspective from ice sheet models"
3:25PM – 3:45PM Coffee Break
3:45PM – 5:15PM Panel Discussion
Format: Topic speakers will begin the discussion integrating the ideas presented. Discussion will be open to all workshop participants with limited time for public comments.
- Integration of ideas
- Outline of topics
- Establish chapter subcommittee
5:15PM – 5:30PM Wrap-up and Adjourn
Tuesday, March 27
8:00AM – 8:15AM
- Morning announcements
- Leftover business from previous day’s discussion
8:15AM – 10:10PM Rapid Release of Methane from Hydrates
Format: 35 minutes presentations including questions for clarification; 10 minute stretch break
- Topic speakers
- David Archer, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA: “Methane hydrates and global warming: a risk analysis”
- Ed Brook, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA: "The ice core record of abrupt changes in atmospheric methane"
- David Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA: “Vulnerability of Permafrost and Peatland Carbon Pools to High-latitude Warming: Amplifying Feedbacks to Climate Change?”
10:10AM – 10:30AM Coffee Break
10:30AM – 12:00PM Panel Discussion
Format: Topic speakers will begin the discussion integrating the ideas presented. Discussion will be open to all workshop participants with limited time for public comments.
- Integration of ideas
- Outline of topics
- Establish chapter subcommittee
12:00PM – 1:15PM Lunch
1:15PM – 1:30PM
- Afternoon announcements
- Leftover business from morning discussion
1:30PM – 3:25PM Meridional Overturning Circulation Change and Influence on Climate
Format: 35 minutes presentations including questions for clarification; 10 minute stretch break
- Topic speakers
- Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA:“Atlantic MOC: Evidence for past variability and relationship to abrupt climate change during the last 80,000 years”
- Bill Johns, Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA: “The Atlantic MOC: Modern observations, variability and detection of change.”
- Ron Stouffer, Climate Dynamics and Prediction Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, New Jersey, USA: “Modeling Abrupt Climate Change”
3:25PM – 3:45PM Coffee break
3:45PM – 5:15PM Panel Discussion
Format: Topic speakers will begin the discussion integrating the ideas presented. Discussion will be open to all workshop participants with limited time for public comments.
- Integration of ideas
- Outline of topics
- Establish chapter subcommittee
5:15PM – 5:30PM Wrap-up and Adjourn
Wednesday, March 28
8:00AM – 8:15AM
- Morning announcements
- Leftover business from previous day’s discussion
8:15AM – 10:10AM Rapid Changes to the Hydrologic Cycle
Format: 35 minutes presentations including questions for clarification; 10 minute stretch break
- Topic speakers
- Ed Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA: "Large-Scale Hydroclimatic Variability And Change Over North America For The Past 1000 Years"
- Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA: “Near term rapid climate change: The case of imminent drying of southwestern North America”
- Pat Bartlein, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA: "Abrupt hydrological response to gradual forcing during the Holocene: the role of land-surface feedback in amplifying hydrological extremes"
10:10AM – 10:30AM Coffee Break
10:30AM – 12:00PM Panel Discussion
Format: Topic speakers will begin the discussion integrating the ideas presented. Discussion will be open to all workshop participants with limited time for public comments.
- Integration of ideas
- Outline of topics
- Establish chapter subcommittee
12:00PM – 3:30PM Lunch and Breakout of Chapter Subcommittees (Non-Public Session)
- Write detailed outlines
- Finalize writing assignments
3:30PM – 4:30PM (Public session to adjournment of workshop)
- Presentation of outlines by chapter leads
4:30PM – 5:00PM Next steps and Closing
5:00PM Workshop Adjourns |
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