GC14B
Dating the Anthropocene: Early Land Use and Earth System Change II

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3003 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Erle C Ellis, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kees Klein Goldewijk, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands and Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
Chairs:  Erle C Ellis, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States and Kees Klein Goldewijk, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
OSPA Liaisons:  Erle C Ellis, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
16:00
Introductory Remarks
16:05
Anthropocene: Shifting Paradigms in Geoscience, Philosophy, History and Geopolitics (Invited) (59847)
Mark A Maslin, University College London, London, United Kingdom
16:20
How to Quantify Human-environment Interactions in the Past: A Global Historical Land Use Data Set for the Holocene (58478)
Kees Klein Goldewijk, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
16:35
16:50
A Paleoecological View of the Anthropocene in Tropical South America (Invited) (64460)
Mark B Bush, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, Crystal H McMichael, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), Amsterdam, Netherlands and Dolores R Piperno, National Museum of Natural History National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution,, Anthropology, Washington,, DC, United States
17:05
The Geomorphology of The Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications (74057)
Tony G Brown, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
17:20
Simulating global and local surface temperature changes due to Holocene anthropogenic land cover change (58462)
Feng He1,2, Stephen J Vavrus1, John E Kutzbach1, William F Ruddiman3, Jed O Kaplan4 and Kristen M. Krumhardt5, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Climatic Research, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
17:35
The impact of land use on carbon and climate in the preindustrial Holocene: What have we learned and what are the priorities for future research? (Invited) (70700)
Jed O Kaplan, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland and Erle C Ellis, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
17:50
Panel Discussion