PP11E:
Sea Levels and Ice Sheets during Past Warm Periods: Looking to the Past to Understand the Future I


Session ID#: 10870

Session Description:
Past interglacial periods are of interest for the scientific community as they represent ‘natural experiments’ involving climate systems that were slightly warmer than today. Of particular interest is the degree to which relatively small perturbations to climate forcing variables such as atmospheric temperature, insolation, or CO2 can lead to polar ice volume and sea level changes. Currently, the research community is focused on understanding sea level and ice volume history during marine isotope stage (MIS) 5, MIS 11, the Mid-Pliocene and other past warm periods. In this session (part of the PAGES/INQUA PALSEA2 working group), we welcome contributions tackling the problems and perspectives related to a better understanding of paleo sea levels and ice sheets from different disciplines, either with modelling or field-oriented approaches.
Primary Convener:  Alessio Rovere, MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Convener:  Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Alessio Rovere, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alessio Rovere, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3010 Gravity and isostasy [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Kenneth G Miller, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, James V Browning, Rutgers University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States and James D Wright, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Edward Gasson, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Rob DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Richard H Levy, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Jeremy D Shakun1, Lee B Corbett2 and Paul R Bierman2, (1)Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States
Jacqueline Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Jerry X Mitrovica, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Robert Moucha, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, Alessandro M Forte, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, Rob DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, David B Rowley, The University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States and Maureen E Raymo, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Prof. Reed P Scherer, PhD, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States and Rob DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States
Andrea Dutton, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Jody Webster, University of Sydney, Geocoastal Research Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Jessica R Creveling, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, Jerry X Mitrovica, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Carling Hay, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jacqueline Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
Matteo Vacchi, Dipartimento Scienze della Terra - Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53 - 56126 Pisa, France, Benjamin Peter Horton, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Simon E Engelhart, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geosciences, Narragansett, RI, United States and Daria Nikitina, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, United States