PP34B:
Water Isotope Systematics: Improving Paleoclimate Interpretations III

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jessica W Moerman, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Max B Berkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Bronwen L Konecky, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Jessica L Conroy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jessica W Moerman, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jessica L Conroy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Max B Berkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Bronwen L Konecky, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Max B Berkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Biochemical Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation during Lipid Biosynthesis in Higher Plants
Ansgar Kahmen1, Bruno Gamarra2 and Marc-André Cormier2, (1)University of Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4:15 PM
 
Expanding lipid proxies to the next dimension: Developing methods for determination of oxygen isotope ratios in plant waxes
Toby Maxwell, Lucas C.R. Silva and William R Horwath, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
Do oxygen stable isotopes track precipitation moisture source in vascular plant dominated peatlands?
Dan Charman1, Matthew John Amesbury2, Rewi Newnham3, N Loader4, Jordan P Goodrich5, Angela V Gallego-Sala2, Jessica Royles6, Elizabeth D Keller7 and W Troy Baisden8, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (2)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (5)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, (6)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (8)Institute Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
5:00 PM
 
A Proxy System Modeling Toolbox for Comparing Water Isotope Observations to Simulations
Sylvia G Dee1, Julien Emile-Geay1, Michael N Evans2 and David C Noone3, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Dept Atmospheric & Oceanic Sci, Boulder, CO, United States
5:15 PM
 
First steps toward development of a stable isotope forward model for tropical ice cores: cold air incursions and snow days at Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
John V Hurley, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States, Mathias F Vuille, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, United States, Douglas R Hardy, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States and Stephen J Burns, University of Masachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
5:30 PM
 
A Reassessment of Greenland Climate History Using a Proxy System Model for Accumulation of the Isotope Record in Snow
David C Noone1,2, Adriana Raudzens Bailey1, Max B Berkelhammer3, Christopher Cox4, Konrad Steffen5 and James W C White6, (1)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (6)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
5:45 PM
 
Recent changes in North West Greenland climate documented by NEEM shallow ice core data and simulations, and implications for past temperature reconstructions
Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France