Earth System Processes 2 (8–11 August 2005)
Session No. 6 Monday, August 8, 2005
1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Westin Hotel: Eau Claire North/South

T1. Methane as a Climate Driver throughout Earth History

James Kasting, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
6-11:30 PM KEYNOTE: METHANE GREENHOUSES AND ANTI-GREENHOUSES ON THE EARLY EARTH: KASTING, James, Penn State Univ, Astrobiology Research Center, University Park, PA 16802, kasting@geosc.psu.edu.
6-22:10 PM METHANE HYDRATE DESTABILIZATION, DEGLACIATION AND OCEANIC ANOXIA, AND BIOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC: KENNEDY, Martin J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, Martin.kennedy@ucr.edu, JIANG, Ganqing, Geosciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, and CHRISTIE-BLICK, Nicholas, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964
6-32:30 PM ASTRONOMICAL PACING OF METHANE HYDRATE DISSOCIATION DURING THE EARLY TOARCIAN: KEMP, David B.1, COE, Angela L.1, COHEN, Anthony S.1, and SCHWARK, Lorenz2, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, CEPSAR, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom, d.kemp@open.ac.uk, (2) Geologisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 49a, Köln, D-50674, Germany
 2:50 PM Break
6-43:10 PM THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SOURCES OF METHANE AND BIOGENIC VOCS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL FLUCTUATIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS: KAPLAN, Jed O., Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, Bern, 3013, Switzerland, jed.kaplan@jrc.it, FOLBERTH, Gerd, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment Canada, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada, and HAUGLUSTAINE, Didier, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France
6-53:30 PM METHANOGENESIS IN PARALIC CARBONATES - A POSSIBLE FEEDBACK TO GLOBAL WARMING: MITTERER, Richard M., Univ of Texas at Dallas, PO Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, mitterer@utdallas.edu.
6-63:50 PM SENSITIVITY OF MARINE METHANE HYDRATES TO FUTURE OCEAN WARMING: FYKE, Jeremy G., School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, jer@ocean.seos.uvic.ca.

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