Dear All,

The British Geophysical Association's "New Advances in Geophysics" annual
meeting is at the GeolSoc Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
on Thursday 7th to Friday 8th February, i.e. next week!  To
register please go to the BGA website at http://www.geophysics.org.uk
and follow the link to "Meetings and Events", beneath which there are
instructions.

PLEASE NOTE that if you want to pay the registration fee
by credit card you should use this online facility because we will NOT
be able to take credit/debit cards at the door.

STUDENTS - for FREE registration please contact me directly:
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The programme is attached.

The Bullerwell Lecture at 4.45 pm on Thursday 7th is open to all without
registration.

The British Geophysical Association's Annual General Meeting is during
the lunch break on Friday 8th February.  All BGA members are encouraged
to attend.

Regards,
Sheila Peacock
(British Geophysical Association)

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New Advances in Geophysics 2008
Geophysics of Global Climate Change Meeting

February 7-8, 2008
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BQ
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/~heiko/NAG2008/NAG2008.html

Program
Thursday, February 7, 2008

09:45 - 10:20 a.m.      Registration and coffee

10:20 - 10:30 a.m.      Introduction to meeting


Session 1: Cenozoic climate history and the global CO2 challenge
Session Chair:          Andrew Roberts

10:30 - 11:10 a.m.      Paul A. Wilson
Palaeo-greenhouses and palaeo-icehouses: Understanding changes in global
climate – the last 100 million years (INVITED)

11:10 - 11:50 a.m.      James E. Hansen
Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? (INVITED)

11:50 - 12:10 p.m.      K. I. C. Oliver
Tidal mixing, deep ocean carbon storage, and the marine δ13C record of the
Last Glacial Maximum

12:10 - 12:30 p.m.      Stéphanie Saunier
Geophysics for the selection and monitoring of geological CO2 storage sites

12:30 - 1:45 p.m.       Lunch


Session 2: Astronomical forcing of climate in geological records
Session Chair:          Paul Wilson

1:45 - 2:25 p.m.        Heiko Pälike
Astronomical forcing of Earth system processes and astronomically calibrated
geological timescales (INVITED)

2:25 - 2:45 p.m.        Mat G.G. De Jong
Spectral trend analysis revealing patterns of climate change in wireline log
data and in ice-core parameter data

2:45 - 3:05 p.m.        Andrew P. Roberts
Magnetism, monsoons and orbital forcing of the geomagnetic field?

Session 3: Sea level change: past, present and future
Session Chair:          Heiko Pälike

3:05 - 3:45 p.m.        Mark Siddall
 From the last glacial cycle to the future: Paleo-constraints on future
sea-level rise (INVITED)

3:45 - 4:05 p.m.        S. Jevrejeva
Recent global sea level acceleration started over 200 years ago


4:05 - 4:15 p.m.        Discussion


4:15 - 4:45 p.m.        Tea


Session 4: Bullerwell Lecture
Session Chair:          Roger Scrutton

4:45 - 5:45 p.m.        Tavi Murray
Beneath the ice: Geophysical observations at Rutford Ice Stream, West
Antarctica


5:45 - 6:45 p.m.        Wine reception


Friday, February 8, 2008

09:00 - 09:30 a.m.      Registration


Session 5: Volcanic and solar influences on climate
Session Chair:          Jim Hansen

9:30 - 10:10 a.m.       David Pyle
The global water cycle drives volcanism on seasonal to millennial timescales
(INVITED)

10:10 - 10:30 a.m.      Neil Arnold
Solar modulation of atmospheric transport processes

10:30 - 11:10 a.m.      Vincent Courtillot
Which global warming? (INVITED)

11:10 - 12:45           Coffee and poster session

Session 6: Poster session
Session Chair:          Sheila Peacock

Paul Williams
A new feedback on climate change from the hydrological cycle

Bernd Kulessa
The geophysics of glacial and frozen materials

Graeme Eagles
Triggering the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum: the Kilda Capacitor hypothesis

David J.A. Spofforth
Paleogene record of orbital variations, time scales and elemental distribution
in sediment from the Arctic Ocean obtained by XRF analyses.

Kirsty M. Edgar
Testing the Eocene bipolar glaciation hypothesis

Qingsong Liu
Re-evaluation of ice-rafted debris inputs across the transition of the
intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation at 2.7 Ma

C. Peters
Mineral magnetic signature of European margin sediments: Provenance of
ice-rafted debris and the climatic response of the British Ice Sheet during
Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3

Jennifer D. Stanford
Timing of meltwater pulse 1a and climate responses to meltwater injections

Robert Marsh
Linking ocean circulation, climate, mountains and ice sheets: Experiments with
efficient climate models

Adrian Kerton
A possible connection between climate change and the geomagnetic field

Alan Thomson
Monitoring climate variability with high frequency magnetometers

E. Clarke
Geomagnetic and solar variability and natural climate change


12:45 - 2:15 p.m.       Lunch and British Geophysical Association Annual
General Meeting


Session 7: Seismic oceanography
Session Chair:          Sheila Peacock

2:15 - 2:45 p.m.        Stephen M. Jones
Mixing oil and water: The new synergy between reflection seismology and
oceanography

2:45 - 3:05 p.m.        E. Vsemirnova
Seismic imaging of water mixing around a large eddy current in the Gulf of
Cadiz


3:05 - 3:30 p.m.        Discussion/summary/concluding remarks

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.        Tea

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.        Royal Astronomical Society Ordinary Meeting