314 Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography

Oral Session
General Discipline Sessions
Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 310BE

Presiding:
Lawrence Krissek and Scott W. Lepley
1:30 PM
Can the Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Dinosterol Be Used to Reconstruct Paleosalinity?
Marcel T.J. van der Meer, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Marianne Baas, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Arjan Boere, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Jelle Bijma, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Ingrid Zondervan, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Albert Benthien, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research; Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Stefan Schouten, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
2:15 PM
A Florida Speleothem Record Snapshot of Late Pleistocene and Mid-Holocene Climate Change
Jason Polk, Univ of South Florida; Philip E. van Beynen, University of South Florida; Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico
2:30 PM
Coarse Fraction Abundances and the Plio-Pleistocene Record of Iceberg-Rafting at IODP Sites 1305 and 1308, North Atlantic Ocean
Lawrence Krissek, The Ohio State Univ; Margaret Haack, Northern Illinois University; P. Leitner, The Ohio State University; A. Stoll, The Ohio State University; P. Krissek, The Ohio State University; J.P. Calhoun, The Ohio State Univ; L. Baumgartner, The Ohio State Univ; D. Blake, The Ohio State Univ; E. Guleff, The Ohio State Univ
2:45 PM
Palaeoseasonality in the Pliocene of the North Atlantic
Tanya Knowles, Natural History Museum; Alan Haywood, University of Leeds; Mark Williams, University of Leicester; Paul Taylor, Natural History Museum; Beth Okamura, Natural History Museum
3:15 PM
Foraminiferal Assemblage Evidence for a Proto-Gulf Stream during the Maastrichtian (Blake Nose, western North Atlantic)
Carolina Isaza-Londoño, University of Missouri; Kenneth G. MacLeod, University of Missouri-Columbia; Brian T. Huber, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
3:30 PM
Turonian Subtropical Paleotemperatures from “Glassy” Foraminifera in East Africa and Their Implications for Modeling Greenhouse Climates
Kenneth G. MacLeod, University of Missouri; Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institution; Karen L. Bice, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Álvaro Jiménez-Berrocoso, University of Missouri
3:45 PM
A Calcium Isotope Record across the Permian-Triassic Boundary from An Isolated Carbonate Platform in South China
Jonathan L. Payne, Stanford University; Alexandra Turchyn, Cambridge University; Adina Paytan; Donald J. DePaolo, Univ California - Berkeley; Daniel J. Lehrmann, Univ of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Jiayong Wei, Guizhou Geological Survey; Youyi Yu, Guizhou University
4:00 PM
Sea Ice and Paleoceanographic Conditions in the Amundsen Gulf, Canadian Arctic during the Late Holocene
Olivia T. Gibb, Dalhousie University; David B. Scott, Dalhousie University; Trecia M. Schell, Dalhousie University; Andre Rochon, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Steve Blasco, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
4:15 PM
Initial Results of Andrill's Southern McMurdo Sound Project Drillcore and-2A: Early Miocene to Recent Geological History of the Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica
David M. Harwood, University of Nebrska-Lincoln; Fabio Florindo, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia; Franco Talarico, Universita' degli Studi di Siena; Richard Levy, University of Nebrska-Lincoln