PC44D:
Placing the North Pacific in a Global Climate Framework I Posters


Session ID#: 28267

Session Description:
The North Pacific has proven a difficult place from which to generate high quality paleo-environmental reconstructions, related to (among other factors) a shallow carbonate compensation depth in the marine environment, a dearth of surviving proximal ice sheets, and challenging weather. As such, in spite of its importance to modern climate dynamics of the northern hemisphere, the role of the North Pacific in global climate over longer periods remains uncertain relative to its North Atlantic and Southern Ocean counterparts. Recent advances in proxy development and chronostratigraphic techniques, when coupled with high-resolution sedimentary archives, facilitate the first steps towards placing the variability of the North Pacific basin into a well-constrained global framework. We broadly solicit contributions of diverse paleoclimate records from the North Pacific, including but not limited to temperature, precipitation, circulation, and/or marginal ice sheet behavior. We also encourage submissions of data reviews and modeling results that evaluate temporal and behavioral relationships between the North Pacific and other regions. Studies that explore phase relationships and possible teleconnection mechanisms with the Atlantic and Southern Oceans are particularly welcome, with an eye to lessons applicable to future climate.
Primary Chair:  Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
Co-chairs:  Cristina Lopes, IPMA, Lison, Portugal and Dorothy K Pak, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Moderators:  Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Cristina Lopes, IPMA, Lison, Portugal and Dorothy K Pak, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Cristina Lopes, IPMA, Lison, Portugal
Index Terms:

4901 Abrupt/rapid climate change [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4999 General or miscellaneous [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
9355 Pacific Ocean [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Cross-Topics:
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • MG - Marine Geology and Sedimentology
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Claire Cecelia McKinley, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Deborah Jane Thomas, Texas A & M University College Station, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States and Rachel Scudder, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Marisa Julia Borreggine, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Sarah E Myhre, University of Washington, Future of Ice Initiative and the School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
Iris S. Romo, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Cristina Lopes, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisboa, Portugal, Alan Mix, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States and Summer Kate Praetorius, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States
Nicholas Lavoie1, Paul Walczak2, Maureen H Walczak3, Joseph S Stoner4, Brian Stillie5, Brendan T Reilly6, Summer Kate Praetorius7, Anna Glueder1, Heather Dawn Bervid8, Jianghui Du4, Ben Freiberg5, Tamara Pico9, Iris S. Romo10, Angelica Robles11, Alyson Churchill12 and Coquille Rex5, (1)Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)CEOAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)COAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, (8)Oregon State University, Geology, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States, (11)University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, Environmental Sciences Department, San Juan, PR, United States, (12)Colby College, Waterville, ME, United States
Angelica Robles, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, Environmental Sciences Department, San Juan, PR, United States, Joseph Stephen Stoner, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Maureen H Walczak, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
Dorothy K Pak, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Ingrid L Hendy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Arndt Schimmelmann, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States