Chairs:  Corinne I Wong, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Isabel P Montanez, Univ of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States 
Primary Conveners:  Corinne I Wong, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States 
Co-conveners:  Isabel P Montanez, Univ of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Lucas C.R. Silva, University of California Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States 
OSPA Liaisons:  Corinne I Wong, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States 
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Early Diagenetic Imprint on Temperature Proxies in Holocene Corals: A Case Study from French Polynesia
			
			
			
				
					Rashid Juma Rashid1, Anton Eisenhauer1, Volker Liebetrau1, Jan Fietzke1, Florian Boehm1, Marlene Wall1, Stefan Krause1, Andres Rüggeberg2, Wolf-Christian Dullo1 and Elias Samankassou3, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Fribourg, Earth Sciences, Fribourg, Switzerland, (3)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Trends in ENSO Amplitude Through the Holocene at the Line Islands, Central Tropical Pacific
			
			
			
				
					Sarah M White, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Pratigya J Polissar, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleoenvironment, Palisades, NY, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				A Millennial Length High-Resolution Pollen, Charcoal, Diatom and Stable Isotope Record from Laguna San Carlos, Panama
			
			
			
				
					Jaime Escobar, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, Maria Velez, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada, Alexander Correa-Metrio, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Paleontología, Mexico City, Mexico, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada and Jason H Curtis, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Water-Level Reconstruction and its Implications for Late Pleistocene Paleontological Site Formation in Hoyo Negro, a Submerged Subterranean Pit in Quintana Roo, Mexico 
			
			
			
				
					Dominique Rissolo1, Eduard Gordon Reinhardt2, Shawn Collins2, Shawn Edward Kovacs2, Patricia A Beddows3, James C Chatters4, Alberto Nava Blank5 and Pilar Luna Erreguerena6, (1)Waitt Institute, LA Jolla, CA, United States, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (4)Applied Paleoscience, Bothell, WA, United States, (5)Global Underwater Explorers, Seaside, CA, United States, (6)Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Can silicon isotopes be used to assess anthropogenic impacts and nutrient utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia?
			
			
			
				
					George E A Swann1, Virginia N Panizzo1, Anson W Mackay2, Sarah Roberts1, Elena Vologina3 and Matthew SA Horstwood4, (1)University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Institute of the Earth Crust SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia, (4)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Late Pleistocene and early Holocene change in the Weddell Sea: a new climate record from the Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica
			
			
			
				
					Chris SM Turney1, Christopher Joseph Fogwill1, Mauro Rubino2, David Etheridge2, Tas D van Ommen3, Andrew David Moy4 and Mark A Curran5, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)CSIRO, Aspendale, Australia, (3)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia, (4)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia, (5)Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Northern Hemisphere Ice sheet forcing on the Holocene climate of Eurasia
			
			
			
				
					Jonathan L Baker1, Matthew S Lachniet2, Olga Chervyatsova3, Yemane Asmerom4 and Victor J Polyak4, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)UNLV-Geosciences, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (3)Shulgan-Tash State Nature Reserve, Gadelgareevo, Russia, (4)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				2500-year Late Holocene vegetation and hydrologic changes from a cave guano-clay sequence in the Danube Gorge, SW Romania
			
			
			
				
					Bogdan P Onac1,2, Simon M Hutchinson3, Anca Geanta2, Ferenc L Forray2, Jonathan G Wynn1, Alexandra M. Giurgiu2 and Ioan Coroiu4, (1)University of South Florida Tampa, School of Geosciences, Tampa, FL, United States, (2)Babeș-Bolyai University, Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, (3)University of Salford, School of Environment & Life Sciences, Salford, United Kingdom, (4)Babeș-Bolyai University, Biology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania