Course outline

Time

Monday 20th April

Tuesday 21st April

Wednesday 22nd April

Thursday 23rd April

8:45 - 9:10

Registration

 

 

9:10 - 9:15

Opening

9:15 - 10:45

Cave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates 
Prof. Ian Fairchild

The use of pollen data in palaeoclimatology:
 examples and challenges
Prof. Heikki Seppä

Sedimentology and geochemistry of travertines
Dr. Sándor Kele

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee

Coffee

Coffee

11:15-12.45

Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range
Prof. David Horne

Palaeoclimatic reconstructions from subfossil trees
Dr. Johannes Edvardsson

Field excursion

Geochemical proxies for seawater temperature reconstruction  
Dr. Sze Ling Ho 

12.45 - 14.15

Multiproxy Consensus approach
Prof. David Horne

Chironomids as a paleoclimate proxy   
Dr. Tomi Luoto

Clumped isotope thermometry: basics, calibrations, and applications
Dr. Sándor Kele 

14.15 - 15.15

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

15.15 - 16.45

The use of pollen data in
palaeoclimatology: principles
Prof. Heikki Seppä

Climate and archaeology
Dr. Benjamin Gearey

Escaping from Snowball Earth
 Prof. Ian Fairchild

16.45 - 17.45

Lab visits

Discussions

Discussions

19:00

Welcome party