Workshop Program

Understanding future sea level rise: The challenges of dating past interglacials
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
September 21-25, 2009

Organizers: Bill Thompson, Mark Siddall, Claire Waelbroeck

Welcome Reception
Sunday, September 20, 2009
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. (meet there or in the lobby of the Inn on the Square at 6:45 p.m. to walk over to Liam's)
Liam Maguire's Irish Pub and Restaurant
273 Main Street
Falmouth, MA 02540
Phone: 508-548-0285

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Workshop Program
Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday through Thursday presentaions take place in the Carriage House, and Friday presentations take place in Clark Lab 507, Quissett Campus, WHOI (Shuttle transportation will be provided each morning at 8:15 and evening at 6:30 p.m. to and from the Inn)

*Dating Sea Level Change: Analytical Advances*
8:30	Breakfast
9:00	Morss Presentation: The next 100 years of ice sheets and sea level Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University »View video of prentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Alley.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Alley.wmv
9:45	Keynote Address: Questions to put to the Last Interglacial Mark Siddall, University of Bristol »View video of presentaion: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Siddall.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Siddall.wmv
10:30	Coffee
10:50	IODP constraints on the (²³⁴U/²³⁸U) history of seawater Alex Thomas, Oxford University
11:15	U-series dating of tropical corals: Lessons from Deep water corals Norbert Frank, CNRS
11:40	Low temperature isotopic fractionation of uranium Morten Andersen, University of Bristol
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Improved ²³⁰Th dating methods applied to the dating of the last 4 glacial terminations Hai Cheng, University of Minnesota
2:20	Improving U-Pb ID-TIMS geochronology through community driven technical developments Dan Condon, British Geological Survey
3:10	Coffee
3:30	U-series standard inter-comparison Andrea Dutton, Australian National University William G. Thompson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4:20	Discussion: What can we do to make reported U-series isotope ratios more comparable?
5:10	Refreshments

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

*Dating Sea Level Change: Understanding open systems*
8:30	Breakfast
9:00	Morss Presentation: The economic impacts of sea level rise Porter Hoagland, WHOI Marine Policy Center »View video of presentation Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Hoagland.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Hoagland.wmv
9:45	Keynote Address: U-Th and ¹⁴C: historical aspects and useful similarities Edouard Bard, Collège de France »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Bard.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Morss9_09/Bard.wmv
10:30	Coffee
10:50	Variation of sea level and seawater uranium-isotope ratios during the Last Deglaciation: New Insights from the IODP 310 "Tahiti Sea-Level"Expedition Pierre Deschamp, CEREGE
11:40	U-redistribution in fossil reef corals and its effect on U-series coral ages Denis Scholz, University of Bristol
12:30	Lunch
1:30	U-series dating and open-system processes in fossil corals from Henderson Island, South Pacific Morten Andersen, University of Bristol
2:20	Morphostratigraphy and U-series ages from an emergent MIS 5e reef, Cape Cuvier, Western Australia Mick O'Leary, Manchester Metropolitan University
3:10	Coffee
3:30	Reducing the impact of U-redistribution and recoil-related effects on U-series coral ages Bill Thompson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4:20	Discussion: How can we make reported U-series ages more comparable?
5:10	Refreshments

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

*Sea Level During the Last Interglacial*
8:30	Breakfast
9:00	Keynote Address: Glacio-Hydro-Isostatic Modeling of the Last Interglacial Andrea Dutton, Australian National University »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Andrea.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Andrea.wmv
9:45	Constraining Orbital and Sub-Orbital sea-level change in MIS 5: evidence from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece Peter Rowe, University of East Anglia
10:30	Coffee
10:50	Sea Level and Ice Volume During the Last Interglacial Andrea Dutton, Australian National University
11:40	Warm Interglaciations, Abrupt Environmental Change, and the Antarctic “Wild Card” Paul Hearty, University of North Carolina
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Correction of instrument biases during high-precision U-Th chronology on a Nu instrument MC-ICP-MS Gideon Henderson, Oxford University
2:00	Sea level reconstructions from stable and moved Pacific Islands: Marquesas, Vanuatu, New Caledonia Norbert Frank, CNRS
2:30	Afternoon Retreat and Conference Dinner, Crawford Estate

Thursday, September 24, 2009

*Towards an integrated sea level dataset*
8:30	Breakfast
9:00	Morss presentation: Beyond the ‘Bruun rule’: dynamic shoreline responses to sea level rise Andrew Ashton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Ashton.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Ashton.wmv
9:45	Keynote Address: Detailed stratigraphy, a prerequisite for useful interpretation of precise geochronologic data from Quaternary coral reefs H. Allen Curran, Smith College »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Curran.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Curran.wmv
10:30	Coffee
10:50	Improvements from Bern 2008 on “The timing of Termination II: New constraints from Tahiti” Alex Thomas, Oxford University
11:40	Constraining sea levels during marine isotope stages 7 and 9 using speleothem growth from the Bahamas Archipelago David Richards, University of Bristol
12:30	Lunch
1:30	The existing sea level data: Synthesis of Sea Level During the Penultimate Interglacial Andrea Dutton, Australian National University Last Interglacial Sea Level Observations Bill Thompson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea levels: MIS 7.5, MIS 9 and beyond Morten Andersen
3:10	Coffee
3:30	Discussion: How do we best integrate the existing sea level data?
5:10	Reception

Friday, September 25, 2009

*Morss Presentations: The societal impact of future sea level rise*
8:30	Breakfast
9:00	A probabilistic framework for evaluating sea-level rise impacts Rob Thieler, United States Geological Survey »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Thieler.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Thieler.wmv
9:45	Local impacts of sea level rise and state and regional guidance on adaptation planning Julia Knisel, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management
10:30	Coffee
10:50	The legal and policy impacts of sea level rise on beaches and coastal property Megan Higgins, Roger Williams University School of Law »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Higgins.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Higgins.wmv
11:40	Some economics of sea level rise John Whitehead, Appalachian State University »View video of presentation: Quicktime http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Whitehead.mov Windows http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/events/Morss9_09/Whitehead.wmv
12:30	Lunch

Morss Colloquium

Redfield Auditorium

Where the land and sea meet: Managing shoreline change over the next 100 years
2:00	Welcome Bill Thompson, Paleoclimatologist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2:10	Insights into the next 100 years of sea-level rise from long-term history of sea-level change Mark Siddall, University of Bristol
2:35	Lessons from sea-level history: how fast can sea level rise? Edouard Bard, Chair of Ocean and Climate Evolution, Collège de France
3:00	Sea level rise impacts on beaches and coastal property Megan Higgins, Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program and Roger Williams University
3:25	Sea-level Rise on Cape Cod: How Vulnerable Are We? What Can We Do? Rob Thieler, Coastal Geologist, United States Geological Survey
3:50	Panel Discussion (Questions from the audience welcome) William G. Thompson, Paleoclimatologist, WHOI Julia Knisel, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management John Whitehead, Economist, Appalachian State University Andrew Ashton, Coastal Geomorphologist, WHOI Porter Hoagland, Marine Policy Center, WHOI
5:00	Reception WHOI Exhibit Center, School Street, Woods Hole

Last updated: November 5, 2009