Session No. 4 Monday, March 25, 2002

8:20 AM-12:00 PM, Sheraton Springfield: Ballroom South
T1. Holocene Climate and Lakes I
Mark Abbott and Andrea Lini, Presiding
Start Time
8:20 AM Introductory Remarks
8:25 AM SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF MID-HOLOCENE DRY PERIODS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA: ATMOSPHERIC LINKAGE AND AIR MASS INTERACTION?: YU, Zicheng, MOELLER, Robert E., and MELTZER, Anne S., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh Univ, 31 Williams Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3188, ziy2@lehigh.edu
8:45 AM EARLY TO MIDDLE HOLOCENE HYDROLOGIC LAKE CLOSURE: DRY CLIMATE IMPACT ON THE GREAT LAKES OF NORTH AMERICA: LEWIS, C.F. Michael and BLASCO, Steve M., Geol Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, Canada, mlewis@agc.bio.ns.ca
9:05 AM THE BIOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY OF THE NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN BEFORE THE HOLOCENE; A GLIMPSE ALONG THE SHORELINE FOLLOWING DEGLACIATION: RAYBURN, John A.1, YANSA, Catherine H.2, FRANZI, David A.3, and KNUEPFER, Peter L.K.1, (1) Dept. of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton Univ, Binghamton, NY 13902, jrayburn@binghamton.edu, (2) Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, (3) Center for Earth and Environmental Science, Plattsburgh State Univ. of New York, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
9:25 AM CONTRASTING EVOLUTION OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND POST-GLACIAL LAKES: LORD, Andrea, LINI, Andrea, TOKE, Nathan, ADAM, Parris, and BIERMAN, Paul, Geology Department, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, amlord@zoo.uvm.edu
9:45 AM POST-GLACIAL LACUSTRINE ORGANIC MATTER RECORDS: CLIMATIC OR BIOTIC PROXIES?: LINI, Andrea, Geology Department, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, alini@zoo.uvm.edu, KRUGE, Michael A., Dept. of Geology, Southern Illinois Univ, MC 4324, Carbondale, IL 62901, and DAHLEN, Daun, Paul Smith's College, Paul Smiths, NY 12970
10:05 AM Break
10:25 AM OBSTACLES TO INTERPRETING THE CLIMATE SIGNAL IN LATE PLEISTOCENE-EARLY HOLOCENE PALEOBOTANICAL RECORDS FROM GLACIATED LAKE AREAS: YANSA, Catherine H., Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, cyansa@geography.wisc.edu.
10:45 AM WHAT DO HIGH ARCTIC FLUVIAL AND LACUSTRINE CLASTIC SEDIMENTS TELL US ABOUT CLIMATE?: BRAUN, Carsten1, HARDY, Douglas R.1, BRADLEY, Raymond S.1, ZOLITSCHKA, Bernd2, RETELLE, Michael J.3, SMITH, Sheldon V. Jr4, LEWIS, Ted1, and FRANCUS, Pierre1, (1) Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, carsten@geo.umass.edu, (2) Institute of Geography, Univ of Bremen, Celsiusstr. FVG-M, D-28359 Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3) Bates College, 44 Campus Ave, Lewiston, ME 04240-6018, (4) Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, 1600 Osgood St, North Andover, MA 01845
11:05 AM AN ANALYSIS OF VARVED SEDIMENTS FROM MURRAY LAKE, ELLESMERE ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA: PATRIDGE, Whitney1, FRANCUS, P.1, BRADLEY, R. S.1, ABBOTT, M.2, and STONER, J.3, (1) Department of Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, patridge@geo.umass.edu, (2) Department of Geology and Planetary Science, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-3332, (3) Department of Geology, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616
11:25 AM PALEOPRODUCTIVITY VARIATIONS IN HEMLOCK LAKE, NEW YORK: MAGNETIC PROPERTIES MEASUREMENTS AND DIATOM COUNTS: CHAISSON, William P., ARNOLD, Mary R., and COTTRELL, Rory D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ of Rochester, Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, chaisson@earth.rochester.edu

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