Session: Advances in Paleoclimate from the Terrestrial Realm to the Deep Sea (Northeastern Section

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Start Time

8:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

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8:20 AM

INTERPRETING STABLE ISOTOPES IN TROPICAL STALAGMITES: MASKING OF INTER-ANNUAL CLIMATE PROXY SIGNALS BY RESIDUAL TROPICAL CYCLONE WATER FROM HURRICANE MITCH

FRAPPIER, Amy Benoit, Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, amy.frappier@bc.edu, amy.frappier@bc.edu

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8:40 AM

BIOMARKER AND COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE RATIOS AS NOVEL SENSITIVE INDICATORS OF PALEOHYDROLOGY: AN EXAMPLE FROM AN OMBROTROPHIC BOG IN COASTAL ARCTIC NORWAY

NICHOLS, Jonathan Ezra¹, WALCOTT, Marie¹, BRADLEY, Ray², PILCHER, Jonathan³ and HUANG, Yongsong⁴, (1)Geological Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook St, Providence, RI 02912, (2)Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, (3)Palaeoecology Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, (4)Geological Sciences, Brown Univ, 324 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912, jonathan_nichols@brown.edu, jonathan_nichols@brown.edu

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9:00 AM

INFLOW AND LAKE CONTROLS ON SHORT-TERM MASS ACCUMULATION AND PARTICLE SIZE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETING VARVED LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTARY RECORDS

COCKBURN, Jaclyn M.H., Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada and LAMOUREUX, Scott F., Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L3N6, Canada, jaclyn.cockburn@gmail.com, jaclyn.cockburn@gmail.com

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9:20 AM

LONG TERM SEDIMENT YIELD DYNAMICS IN A GLACIATED ALPINE WATERSHED- CLIMATE AND GEOMORPHIC INTERACTIONS REVEALED BY LACUSTRINE VARVES

LAMOUREUX, Scott F., Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L3N6, Canada and COCKBURN, Jaclyn M.H., Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada, lamoureu@post.queensu.ca, lamoureu@post.queensu.ca

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9:40 AM

IDENTIFYING COHERENT LINKS BETWEEN SUBANNUAL SEDIMENT STRUCTURES AND DAILY WEATHER OBSERVATIONS IN PROGLACIAL CLASTIC VARVES

CHUTKO, Krystopher J. and LAMOUREUX, Scott, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada, 2kjc2@qlink.queensu.ca, 2kjc2@qlink.queensu.ca

10:00 AM

Break

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10:15 AM

HIGH-RESOLUTION HOLOCENE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM LAMINATED LAKE SEDIMENTS OF SOUTHWESTERN GREENLAND

D'ANDREA, William J., Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook St, Providence, RI 02912, ANDERSON, N. John, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom, FRITZ, Sherilyn C., Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588 and HUANG, Yongsong, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912, William_DAndrea@brown.edu, William_DAndrea@brown.edu

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10:35 AM

VEGETATION AND WATER LEVEL CHANGES FOR THE NORTHEAST DURING THE 8.2 KA EVENT

NEWBY, Paige¹, DONNELLY, Jeffrey², SHUMAN, Bryan³ and MACDONALD, Dana¹, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Brown Univ, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912, (2)Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MS#22, Clark 253B, Woods Hole, MA 02543, (3)Department Of Geography, University of Minnesota, 414 Social Science Tower, Minneapolis, MN 55455, Paige_Newby@brown.edu, Paige_Newby@brown.edu

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10:55 AM

HOLOCENE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF PRECIPITATION PATTERNS AND EXTREME COASTAL FLOODING FROM THE WESTERN PACIFIC

WOODRUFF, Jonathan D. and DONNELLY, Jeffrey P., Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, jwoodruff@whoi.edu, jwoodruff@whoi.edu

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11:15 AM

SHIFTS IN THE δ¹³C OF SERRIPES GROENLANDICUS SHELL ORGANIC MATTER: A PROXY FOR INTRA- AND INTERANNUAL CHANGES IN PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE ARCTIC?

JOHNSON, Beverly J., Dept of Geology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, AMBROSE, William G., Dept of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240, MCMAHON, Kelton W., Biological Oceanography, MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Woods Hole, MA 02543 and CARROLL, Michael L., Akvaplan-niva, Polar Environmental Center, Tromso, 9296, Norway, bjohnso3@bates.edu, bjohnso3@bates.edu

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11:35 AM

ASSESSING THE REPRODUCIBILITY AND POTENTIAL OF HIGH RESOLUTION TRACE ELEMENT PROFILES IN AN ARAGONITIC BIVALVE (SAXIDOMUS GIGANTEUS) FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION

GILLIKIN, David P., Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College, Box 475, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 and DEHAIRS, Frank, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium, dagillikin@vassar.edu, dagillikin@vassar.edu

11:55 AM

Discussion

Northeastern Section - 42nd Annual Meeting (12–14 March 2007)

T18. Advances in Paleoclimate from the Terrestrial Realm to the Deep Sea