| Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM | |||
| George R. Brown Convention Center, 310CF | |||
| 182: Terrestrial Response to Climate Variability during the Medieval Warm Period: Lakes, Tree-Rings, and Human Adaptation | |||
| Sponsor: | Topical Sessions | ||
| JTPC Rep: | Michael Robert Rosen, U.S. Geological Survey | ||
| Conveners/Advocates: | David M. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey Kenneth D. Adams, Desert Research Institute Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | ||
| 8:00 AM | 182-1 | Drought during Medieval Times In North America: Results from An Expanded High-Resolution Grid of PDSI Reconstructions from Tree Rings Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Richard R. Heim Jr, National Climatic Data Center, Russell S. Vose, National Climatic Data Center, Jay H. Lawrimore, National Climatic Data Center | |
| 8:20 AM | 182-2 | How the Rate of Volcanism Initiated the Medieval Warm Period and Controlled Its Periods of Drought Peter L. Ward, Teton Tectonics | |
| 8:35 AM | 182-3 | The Tangled Web – Records of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (A.D. 900-1350) from Northern San Francisco Bay Marshes Scott W. Starratt, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| 8:50 AM | 182-4 | Increasing Evidence for the Medieval Drought-Deluge-Drought Sequence in the Western U.S Scott Stine, California State University | |
| 9:05 AM | 182-5 | Lake-Level Fluctuations in the Western Great Basin during the Medieval Climate Anomaly: Episodes of Both Drier and Wetter Periods Than Modern Kenneth D. Adams, Desert Research Institute | |
| 9:20 AM | 182-6 | Medieval Climate In the Mojave Desert Suggests Regional Lake Rise Between Extended Droughts David M. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey, Lewis A. Owen, University of Cincinnati, Shannon A. Mahan, US Geol Survey | |
| 9:35 AM | 182-7 | A Millennial Scale Tree-Ring Precipitation Reconstruction for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah Troy A. Knight, University of Arizona, David M. Meko, University of Arizona, Christopher A. Baisan, University of Arizona | |
| 9:50 AM | 182-8 | Medieval-Period Droughts, Fires, Floods and Geomorphic Change In Interior Western USA Mountains Grant Meyer, Univ of New Mexico, Jennifer L. Pierce, Boise State University, Jedediah D. Frechette, Univ of New Mexico, Jennifer K. New, Univ of New Mexico, Nathan Nelson, Boise State University, Lyman Persico, Univ of New Mexico | |
| 10:05 AM | Break | ||
| 10:20 AM | 182-9 | Simultaneous Cool and Early Warm Season Drought Over the Colorado Plateau David W. Stahle, University of Arkansas | |
| 10:35 AM | 182-10 | The Role of Prehistoric Climate Change in Anasazi Stage Transitions Michael S. Berry, Bureau of Reclamation, Larry Benson | |
| 10:55 AM | 182-11 | Comparison of Biomarker Hydrogen and Shell-Carbonate Oxygen Isotope Proxies In Lake Chichancanab Sediment (Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico): Implications for the Terminal Classic Maya Collapse Peter Douglas, Yale University, Mark Pagani, Yale Univ, Mark Brenner, University of Florida, David Hodell, Univ of Florida | |
| 11:10 AM | 182-12 | Late Holocene Climate Variability in the Southern Maya Lowlands David Wahl, USGS, Roger Byrne, UC Berkeley, Richard Hansen, Idaho State University, Thomas Schreiner, UC Berkeley | |
| 11:25 AM | 182-13 | Floods and Fluvial Activity during the Medieval Climate Episode James C. Knox, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 11:45 AM | 182-14 | The Medieval Warm Period in the Great Lakes Region: Spatial Patterns of Drought and Terrestrial Ecosystem Response Robert K. Booth, Lehigh University, Stephen T. Jackson, University of Wyoming | |
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