Chairs: Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, Stella C Woodard, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States and Cyrus Karas, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Primary Convener: Heather L Ford, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Camille Contoux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Aurora C Elmore, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States and Aisling M Dolan, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison: Camille Contoux, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Antarctic Role in Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (27611)
Stella C Woodard1, Yair Rosenthal2, Kenneth G Miller3, James D Wright4, Kira T Lawrence5 and Beverly Chiu4, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States, (2)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, (3)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (5)Lafayette College, Easton, United States
Marine and Terrestrial Evidence for Glaciation during the Pliocene – a Global Synthesis (12149)
Stijn De Schepper, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway; Uni Research, Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, Philip L Gibbard, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Ulrich Salzmann, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Jürgen Ehlers, Witzeeze, Germany
Miocene to Present Sea Level and the Origin of Modern Rimmed Atoll Morphology (25667)
Michael Toomey, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, J Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Maureen E Raymo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Andrew D Ashton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States
Towards Greenland Glaciation: Cumulative or Abrupt Transition? (10949)
Ning Tan1, Gilles Ramstein2, Camille Contoux3, Jean-Baptiste Ladant4, Christophe Dumas2 and Yannick Donnadieu2, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,, Beijing, China, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (4)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
How to Sustain Warm Northern High Latitudes during the Late Pliocene? Roles of CO2, Orbital Changes and Increased Mediterranean Salinity on Oceanic Circulation (23263)
Camille Contoux1, Zhongshi Zhang1, Camille Li2, Prof. Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, Ph.d. 3,4 and Bjørg Risebrobakken1, (1)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, (2)Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (3)University of Oslo, Centre for Early Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway, (4)Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
A long history of equatorial upwelling in the Pacific Ocean (25251)
Yige Zhang, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, United States, Mark Pagani, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States, Haojia Abby Ren, National Taiwan University, Research Center for Future Earth, Taipei, Taiwan and Jorijntje Henderiks, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Pliocene Warm Period Upwelling in the Southern Benguela Region (7463)
Dr. Benjamin Petrick1, Erin McClymont2, Sonja Felder1, Melanie J Leng3, Antoni Rosell-Melé4 and Gemma Rueda5, (1)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (4)Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain, (5)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Bellaterra, Spain
The Closure History of the Central American Seaway and its Relationship to Ocean Circulation and Climate (29121)
Amanda J Waite1, Ellen E. Martin1, Kira T Lawrence2, Caroline Ladlow3 and Derrick Newkirk4, (1)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)Lafayette College, Easton, United States, (3)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States, (4)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
Major Changes in East Asian Climate in the Mid-Pliocene: Triggered By the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau or Global Cooling? (11016)
Junyi Ge1,2, Ying Dai3, Zhongshi Zhang4, Deai Zhao1, Qin Li1, Yan Zhang1, Liang Yi5, Frank Oldfield6 and Zhengtang Guo1, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (5)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sustained Warmth in Low Latitudes during the Late Miocene-Pliocene: A High-Resolution Record from the Northern South China Sea (20334)
Zhixin Zhu1, Zhonghui Liu2, Meyer Zhao-Zheng3 and Yuxin He1,4, (1)The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, (2)The University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, China, (3)Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Earth Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
How Consistent are Sea Surface Temperature Estimates from Different Proxies? An Assessment of the Alkenone, Mg/Ca, and Faunal Paleothermometers Using Records from the Plio-Pleistocene (13286)
Kira T Lawrence1, Laura Peterson2, Peter B deMenocal3, Laura Bochner4 and Devon B. Gorbey4, (1)Lafayette College, Easton, United States, (2)Luther College, Environmental Studies, Decorah, IA, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (4)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States