Programme
Tuesday 5th January, 2010
16:00 - 18:00 Registration open, Applebey lecture theatre, Geography Department, Durham University
18:00 - 19:30 Ice breaker reception / Poster session 1 Room 010 and West Building corridors
19:30 Delegate free evening, Durham city
Wednesday 6th January, Applebey Lecture theatre, Department of Geography, Durham University
08:00 - 08:40 Breakfast through the servery for those staying in University accommodation
08:30 - 09:00 Registration open
Reminder 15-20 min walk from Hatfield / University Colleges, 5-10 min walk from Collingwood College to Geography Dept
RESOLVING ICE SHEET AND SEA LEVEL INTERACTIONS chaired by Ian Shennan
09:00 - 09:30 K. Lambeck
From sea level to ice sheets: New results for the Eurasian ice sheets from Saalian to Holocene
09:30 - 09:50R. Rixon, M. Hunter, C. Fogwill
The deglacial history of the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula
09:50 - 10:10 E. Watcham, M. J. Bentley, D. A. Hodgson, S. J. Roberts, P. T. Fretwell, J. M. Lloyd
Late Quaternary relative sea-level change in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
10:10 - 10:30 M Hijma, K. Cohen
Timing and magnitude of the sea-level jump precluding the 8,200 year event
10:30 - 11:00 Break
RESOLVING ICE SHEET AND SEA LEVEL INTERACTIONS continued, chaired by James Scourse
11:00 - 11:20 A. J. Long, S. A. Woodroffe, G. Milne, L. Wake, M. Simpson
Relative sea-level changes and ice sheet history in Greenland during the last millennium
11:20 - 11:40 A. Romundset, S. Bondevik
The first radiocarbon-dated sea-level curves from northernmost Norway
11:40 - 12:00 G. E. Moseley, P. L. Smart, D. A. Richards, D. L. Hoffman
Relative sea-level fluctuations during the early-mid Holocene based on speleothems from the circum-Caribbean region
12:00 - 12:20 B. P. Horton, S. Engelhart, T. E. Tornqvist, D. Hill, W. R. Peltier
Holocene sea-level changes along the Atlantic coast of the United States
12:20 - 13:15 Lunch in Manley Room, Geography / IHRR building
12:45 - 13:15 APECS / UK Polar Network early career researchers panel, room 010
QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL CHANGES, PAST PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS chaired by Antony Long
13:15 - 13:45 C. V. Murray-Wallace
A 1 million year record of sea-level highstands from the Coorong Coastal Plain, southern Australia: a comparative framework for marine isotope stratigraphy
13:45 - 14:05 M. Andersen, C.Stirling, E-K. Potter, A. Halliday, S. Blake, M. McCulloch, B. Ayling, M. O’Leary
The absolute timing of sea-level highstands during Marine Isotope Stage 7.5, 9 and 15 recorded in fossil corals on Henderson Island, South Pacific
14:05 - 14:25 M. D. Bateman, D. J. Nash, J. E. Bullard, C. Latorre
Quaternary aeolianite development in a tectonically active coastal setting: a case study from the Atacama Desert of northern Chile
14:25 - 14:35 Break
14:35 - 16:30 Poster session, Room 010 and West Building corridors
16:30 - 18:00 QRA Annual General Meeting and presentation of Honorary Members Award, Applebey Lecture theatre
20:30 - 21:30 ‘Any Questions’ session on ‘Sea-level science and society: effective communication of our research’, Burley Room, Hatfield College (refreshments provided. Hatfield College bar open afterwards)
Thursday 7th January, Applebey Lecture theatre, Department of Geography, Durham University
08:00 - 08:40 Breakfast through the servery for those staying in University accommodation
QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL CHANGES, PAST PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS CONTINUED chaired by Dave Roberts
09:00 - 09:30 M. Siddall
Frameworks for the future based on evidence of Quaternary sea-level change
09:30 - 09:50 M. Williams
Human responses to mid-Holocene sea-level fluctuations in the southern Red Sea
09:50 - 10:10 D. Charman, R. Gehrels, C. Sharma, C. Manning
Reconstruction of recent sea-level change using testate amoebae: progress and prospects
10:10 - 10:30 D. R. Bridgland, R. Westaway, A. J. Howard, J. B. Innes, W. A. Mitchell, T. S. White
The role of glacio-isostasy in the formation of post-glacial river terraces in relation to the MIS 2 ice limit: evidence from northern England
10:30 - 11:00 Break
QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL CHANGES, PAST PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS CONTINUED chaired by Sarah Woodroffe
11:00 - 11:20 J. A. G. Cooper, D. W. T. Jackson, J. T. Kelley, D. F. Belknap
Geomorphological and seismic stratigraphic indicators of lower than present sea levels
11:20 - 11:40 J. Jordan, D. Smith, S. Dawson, A. Dawson
Holocene relative sea-level change in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
11:40 - 12:00 E. Toker, D. Sivan, Y. Sharvit, E. Stern, B. Shirman
New observations indicating fluctuating sea levels dating from the Hellenistic period (4th century BC) to the present day, based on archaeology in Israel
12:00 - 12:20 R. Westaway, D. R. Bridgland
Chronology of the Gulf of Taranto marine terrace staircase, southeast Italy: evidence for uplift due to erosional isostasy
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch in Manley Room, Geography / IHRR building
MODELLING SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALES chaired by Roland Gehrels
13:30 - 14:00 W. R. Peltier
Global postglacial sea-level history: ice-ocean-solid earth interactions in a period of rapid climate change
14:00 - 14:20 M. Roberts, J. Scourse, J. Bennell, D. Huws, C. Jago, B. Long
Devensian, late-glacial and Holocene relative sea-level change in North Wales, UK
14:20 - 14:40 S. L. Bradley, G. A. Milne, I. Shennan, R. Edwards, Y. Zong, B. P. Horton, F. N. Terferle
An improved glacio-isostatic adjustment model for the British Isles and Ireland
14:40 - 15:00 I. Shennan, G. A. Milne, S. L. Bradley
Late Holocene relative land- and sea-level changes in the United Kingdom and Ireland: providing scientific information for the wider community
15:00 - 15:30 Break
MODELLING SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALES continued, chaired by Ben Horton
15:30 - 15:50 J. Scourse, K. Uehara, M. Green, S. Neill, T. Rippeth, K. van Landeghem
The impact of sea-level change on the hydrodynamics of the northwest European shelf seas since the Last Glacial Maximum: modelling insights
15:50 - 16:10 A. Le Brocq, M. Bentley, A.Hubbard, D. Sugden, C. Fogwill
Reconstructing the contribution of the Weddell Sea sector, Antarctica, to sea level rise since the last glacial maximum, using numerical modelling constrained by field evidence
16:10 - 16:30 P. L. Whitehouse, M. J. Bentley, G. A. Milne, M. King, I. Thomas, A. Le Brocq
Constraining the present-day mass balance of Antarctica
16:30 - 16:50 D. A. Hodgson, S. J. Roberts, M. J. Bentley, E. P. Watcham, P. T. Fretwell, W. Vyverman, E. Verleyen, M. Sterken, K. Sabbe, S. Moreton, G. A. Milne
Field constraints on relative sea-level change in Antarctica
16:50 - 17:10 J. Ridley, J. Gregory, P. Huybrechts, J. Lowe
Committed sea-level thresholds from the Greenland ice sheet
19:00 - 19:30 Drinks reception, Tunstall Gallery, Castle
19:30 - 22:00 Conference dinner, Great Hall, Castle
Friday 8th January, Applebey Lecture theatre, Department of Geography, Durham University
08:00 - 08:40 Breakfast through the servery for those staying in University accommodation
SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: 2000BP TO 2100AD chaired by Andrew Cooper
09:00 - 09:30 J. Lowe
Projecting future sea level rise: implications for the 21st century and beyond
09:30 - 09:50 M. Lim, N. Rosser, D. N. Petley
Coastal cliff erosion: process and policy
09:50 - 10:10 M. Barton
Cliff slope stability and sea-level rise
10:10 - 10:30 D. M. R. Sampath, C. Loureiro, T. Boski
Long-term morphological evolution of the lower Guadiana estuary in response to the projected sea-level rise and sediment supply reduction during the 21st Century
10:30 - 10:50 M. Brain, A. J. Long, D. N. Petley, B. P. Horton
Autocompaction of Holocene coastal sediments: past, present and future
10:50 - 11:20 Break
SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: 2000BP TO 2100AD continued, chaired by Ian Shennan
11:20 - 11:40 P. L. Woodworth
UK and global-average sea-level changes over the past 250 years
11:40 - 12:00 A. C. Kemp, B. P. Horton
Relative sea-level and climate variations over the past two millennia (North Carolina, USA)
12:00 - 12:20 D. Dawson, W. R. Gehrels
Sea-level change in southwest England: improving uncertainties of future regional projections
12:20 - 12:40 M. King, I. Thomas, N. Penna, D. Lavallee, P. Clarke, S. Williams, L. Petrie, P. Moore
Sea-level change over the 20th Century: geocentric estimates using global tide gauges and GPS
12:40 - 13:00 S. Jevrejeva, A. Grinsted, J. C. Moore
Relative importance of anthropogenic and natural forcing in global sea-level rise over the past millennium
13:00 Lunch and depart (packed lunch provided - can be eaten in Manley Room)