NESSC Day 2021
This year’s NESSC day will be held online due to the COVID-19 limitations. As a result, we will be running one session online for four hours. We hope to hold a non-virtual event later in 2021, when (hopefully) the COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed.
NESSC DAY
May 26, 2021
Time: 13:00 – 17:00+
Programme – please see here for the full NESSC DAY 2021 Programme
| Time slot | Topic | Presenter and content |
| 13:00 – 13:05 | Opening | NESSC scientific director: Prof. dr. Jack Middelburg |
| 13:05 – 13:15 | Get to know your NESSC colleague-1 | |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Keynote Speaker | Prof. dr. Kate Freeman – Penn State University |
| 14:00 – 14:35 | Theme 1 | Thomas Hessilt: Future increases in lightning-ignited boreal forest fires because of coincident increases in dry fuels and lightning
Anna Wallenius: High methane production potential in the sediments of marine Lake Grevelingen after summer hypoxia Jessica Venetz: Microbial methane oxidation in the water column of marine lake Grevelingen |
| 14:35 – 15:00 | Theme 2 | Yord Yedema: Spatial distribution of lipid biomarkers, dinoflagellate cysts and pollen in coastal marine surface sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Anne Kruijt: Coastal carbon transfer in the past – a box model study |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Get to know your NESSC colleague-2 | |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | BREAK | |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Theme 3 | Gerrit Müller: River Particulates Matter – Towards a new perspective on the role of rivers in oceanic mass balances
Laura Pacho: New proxy relations for the benthic foraminiferal Nodosariida: Dentalina flintii, Dentalina sp, and Lenticulina calcar |
| 15:45 – 16:40 | Theme 4 | Meike Scherrenberg: ANICE2.1 Last Glacial Maximum forced with a climate matrix containing CESM1.2 LGM and PI time-slices
Tobias Agterhuis: Deep-sea warmth across two early Eocene hyperthermal events from clumped isotope paleothermometry Chris Fokkema: Climate variability in the equatorial Atlantic during the early Eocene Greenhouse World Louise Fuchs: Identifying the drivers of vegetation change on the Chinese Loess Plateau over the last 200,000 years Addison Rice: Negligible lateral transport bias in Mediterranean Sea surface temperature (SST) proxies based on particle tracking simulations |
| 16:40 – 16:55 | Theme 5 | Max Brils: Improved model representation of the contemporary Greenland ice sheet firn layer |
| 16:55 onwards | Closing | Social Activity |