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S.T. Lee Lecture in Antarctic Studies (George Denton)
Past Climates Meeting, Symposium and Australasian-INTIMATE Workshop
Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Friday 15th May - Sunday 17th May 2009
The meeting showcased the latest advances in understanding climate change in the Late Quaternary in New Zealand, Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, including the global drivers and regional consequences. The format comprised of a one day public symposium followed by a two day science workshop.
Over 180 people attended the symposium in which leading international and local researchers explained how Southern Hemisphere paleo-climate research has advanced understanding of regional and global climate change. The symposium closed with the annual S.T. Lee Lecture in Antarctic Studies (organised by the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington) by Prof. George Denton, University of Maine, on “Antarctica and the Ice age Puzzle”.
During the two-day workshop scientists from New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, France, United Kingdom, and South America presented and discussed the latest research on the mechanisms and drivers of late Quaternary climate change in Australasia and the Southern Hemisphere highlighting collaborative research on the INTegration of Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records (INTIMATE) and past climate modelling to provide a multidimensional understanding of climate change. A second public lecture on “What should we do about fossil fuel CO2?” was presented by world-renowned climate scientist Prof. Wally Broecker.
This meeting preceeded the annual GNS Science Quaternary Techniques short course.
