NESSC days 2019: 15 & 16 April
This years NESSC days will be held on the 15th and 16th of April 2019 in hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee. The hotel can be easily reached by public transport.
What: NESSC Days 2019
When: 15 & 16 April 2019
Whom: All NESSC scientists
Where: Hotel Zuiderduin – Zeeweg 52, 1931 CJ Egmond aan Zee
Program
The NESSC days will start in the afternoon on Monday 15 April 2019. In the evening there will be plenty of time for social activities. On both days one keynote lecture will be given.
Monday 15th of April
14.45-15.00 Welcome/registration
15.00-15.10 Welcome Scientific Director: official start of NESSC 2
15.10-16.00 Keynote lecture Professor Detlef van Vuuren
16.00-17.20 Presentations 1 (20 minutes per presentation)
- Erik Mulder – Bifurcation analysis of snowball Earth transitions in an implicit Earth system model
- Margot Cramwinckel – Trends and transients in climate and environment during the Eocene
- Robin van der Ploeg – Reconstructing changes in oceanic carbonate chemistry and neritic carbonate burial during the Cenozoic
- Anne Roepert – Imaging chemical traces in calcareous marine algae
- Tijn Berends – Modelling ice sheet evolution and atmospheric CO2 during Marine Isotope Stage MIS M2
- Zeynep Erdem – Comparison of late Quaternary sea surface temperature reconstructions based on organic proxies (UK’37, TEXH86, LDI) from offshore California
- Heiko Goelzer – Remapping of Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance anomalies for large ensemble sea-level change projections
- Thomas Janssen – Wood allocation trade-off between fibres and parenchyma tissue drives drought vulnerability in neo-tropical forest trees
- André Jülling Ocean heat content variability in strongly-eddying global climate models
- Leo van Kampenhout – The Greenland ice sheet: past, present and future surface mass balance
- Matthias Kuderer – Age distribution in bioturbated sediments
- Anne van der Meer – Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry – application in Plio-Pleistocene seawater temperature reconstructions and a study into the potential effects of organic contamination and sample cleaning techniques on clumped isotope results
- Brice Noël – Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss
- Lianna Poghosyan – Microbial community analysis of methane and nitrogen cycles in a Dutch drinking water treatment plant
19.00-21.00 Dinner
Tuesday 16th of April
09.00-09.50 Keynote lecture dr. Bärbel Hönisch: Atmospheric CO2 evolution over the Cenozoic
09.50-11.10 Presentations 2 (20 minutes per presentation)
- Elena Popa – H2 clumped isotope measurements at natural isotopic abundances
- Linda Dämmer – Light impacts Mg incorporation in the benthic foraminifer Amphistegina lessonii
- Loes van Bree – Sources and temporal variability of lipid biomarkers in Lake Chala (East Africa)
- Allix Baxter – Lipid biomarkers in Lake Chala record African Megadroughts during MIS5
11.10-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.30 Brainstorm in small groups (including lunch)
13.30-15.10 Presentations 3 (20 minutes per presentation)
- Michiel in t Zandt – Microbial methane cycling potential in North Sea peat sediments
- Nadine Smit – Aerobic oxidation of methane and ethane by unconventional microbes at a terrestrial methane seep in Sicily, Italy
- Michiel Baatsen – Reconciling Eocene Ice with Antarctic Warmth, Implications for Continental Glaciation
- Shaun Akse – Post-mortem diagenesis of diatom frustules in the water column.
- Dušan Materić – Organics in the snow by PTR-MS
15.10-15.25 Coffee break
15.25-15.50 Official COFUND Launch & plans NESSC 2: Presentation by theme leaders
15.50-15.55 Prizes (Poster/Presentation)
16.00-17.00 Social activity: Bowling
Keynote lectures
Prof. dr. Detlef van Vuuren
Detlef van Vuuren is professor in Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University and senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency leading the IMAGE integrated assessment modeling team. He participates in various research organizations in the field of environmental research and has been active in numerous research projects and assessments. He had a coordinating role in the development of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) now used in the IPCC’s assessments. (Source: UU intranet)
dr. Bärbel Hönisch
Bärbel Hönisch is Associate Professor at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University. Her research focusses on understanding the role of the ocean and in particular the role of marine carbonate chemistry in global climate change. As she was originally trained as a (marine) biologist, her way of approaching paleoceanographic questions often includes a biological component. Coretop observations on sub-fossil specimens and culture experiments with living marine calcifiers form an important aspect of her research and helps her to better understand the proxies used for paleoreconstructions. She is specifically interested in estimating past seawater-pH and atmospheric pCO2. (Source: ldeo.columbia.edu)