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RSS/Environmental Statistics Study Group meeting Statistical modelling of climate-related environmental records Wednesday April 30, 2003, 2pm Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St, London Tea 3:30, Meeting ends 5:00pm One of the key research questions for climatologists, palaeo-climatologists, quaternary geologists and archaeologists concern how climate has varied on different time-scales over the past 15,000 years and on the synchronicity of such changes in different parts of the environment around the world. Improved understanding of past climate variability is important in trying to understand how present climate is changing and may further change in the future. The focus for the meeting will be discussion of the statistical modelling of periodicities, uncertainties and synchronicity of climate change and statistical age modelling for different environmental records, to be able to compare proxy-derived climate indicators on a common age scale. Speakers include: Professor John Lowe (Royal Holloway College) Reducing uncertainty in estimates of the rate of environmental change at the end of the last cold stage. Dr Martin Miles (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen.) Time scales of variability in the Arctic climate system. Dr Andrew Millard (Department of Archaeology University of Durham.) Age-depth models for palaeoenvironmental records with changes in accumulation rate. Dr Steve Juggins (Department of Geography, University of Newcastle.) Microfossil-based palaeoenvironmental reconstructions: progress and problems. All are welcome and there is no need to register. More information on the envstat web-page (link below). Posted by: Howard Grubb ([log in to unmask]) _____________________________________________________________________ Homepage for envstat list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat