Calling all Abstracts!

It's that time of year again! AGU 2013 will be held December 9-13 in San Francisco, CA. Today is the opening day of abstract submissions for the AGU 2013 Fall Meeting. Deadlines for abstract submissions is August 6 at 11:59 EDT.

Do you have an awesome multiproxy climate reconstruction you are itching to present? Yes you say? Then come submit your abstract to our session! If you have any questions about the session please feel free to comment or contact us! We hope to see you in San Fran!

PP005. Climate variability from multiple reconstructions

SWIRLs:
  Characterizing Uncertainty

Conveners:
Kristine DeLong 
Louisiana State University 
kdelong@lsu.edu

Jason Polk 
Western Kentucky University 
jason.polk@wku.edu

Each paleoclimate proxy has its own unique strengths and interpretation limits. Combining records with a common climate forcing allows researchers to extract the common climatic signal while reducing reconstruction uncertainty. Multiproxy records can be the same archive with different variables measured (e.g., δ18O and Sr/Ca), unique archives with the same variable (e.g., coral δ18O and speleothem δ18O), or any combination therein. Combining records with differing resolution is challenging yet may reveal unique results not possible with a single archive. We encourage abstracts involving multiproxy records that explore climate variability or abstracts that assess methods and uncertainty in producing reconstructions based on multiple records.

Session information: http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search/sessions/pp005-climate-variability-from-multiple-reconstructions/
Submit your abstracts today! http://agu-fm13.abstractcentral.com/abstract

Across the Pond

Kristine, Beck and Jacob are traveling to the International Sclerochronology Conference of 2013 in Caernarfon, Wales. Becky (an undergraduate) will be presenting her work at her very first conference and Jacob will be presenting at his first international conference. My poster was shipped off with them as someone had to hold down the lab with everyone traveling.

Becky Hood is presenting her work on archeological Mesodesma donacium shells from the site of Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.

Jacob Warner is presenting his work on archeological Donax spp. shells from site of Caylán in the Nepeña Valley, Peru.

My work on a Diploria strigosa coral colony recovered from the Flower Garden Banks off the Coast of Texas will be presented by Kristine DeLong.

In other news: Drew will be starting on his first project in the lab while everyone is away. Drew received an opportunity through the ASPIRE Program at LSU to work on an individual project over the summer. We are fortunate to have such a dedicated freshman working in out lab that we get to keep for four years!

Ancient Underwater Forest

An article came out today about a project we are working on with Grant Harley at the University of Southern Mississippi and Ben Raines an environmental reported for the Alabama Media Group . While we have not been out to the site, we have been working on samples here in the lab. From the outside the chunks of wood look pretty beat up but once you cut into them the smell of freshly cut cypress fills the lab. Radio carbon dating at the Lawrence Livermoore National Laboratory reveled that these samples are radio carbon dead, which means they are older than 50,000 year old and cannot be dated accurately! What do you think this says about sea level rise?

The article can be found here.

Check out some of the photos we have taken in the lab.

Sclero Conference

Looking for something fun to do this summer!? Can you image yourself arriving by train at the Anglesey shore of the Menai Straight, hyped up and ready to attend sessions that range from archaeology to bones? Have we capture your attention now? Good!

Come join us in attending the Third International Sclerochronology Conference held between Saturday the 18th and Wednesday the 22nd, May of 2013. The meeting will be held at the lovely modern conference center Galeri, by the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University. An optional field week will follow the meeting. Have no fear, there are several exciting optional excursions to give you a chance to explore to native beauty of Caernaforn.

Please check out the conference website for more information.

Early bird registration and abstract deadlines have now been extended until April 2, 2013.
to register please visit this website.

We hope to see you there!

Day one, check!

Feet sore and tired after walking around at AGU all day today. Our fellow Tiger and climo student, Hal Needham, presented his poster on his wonderful SurgeDAT storm surge database. He had some good traffic around his poster whenever I ventured away from my sessions to talk to him.

San Francisco Bound

Posters are printed and slides are made for AGU 2012! We are excited to be catching up with old friends and making new ones. We hope to post short stories from time to time. If we don't update you here check out our shiny new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PASTLab

Our e-poster can be found at this link:
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/files/2012/12/AGU-2012-RMCsmall.pdf

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