Dear colleagues,
Sorry for any cross-posting. We are pleased to invite you to the DUST2016 conference to be held in Castellaneta Marina (Italy) on June 12-17 2016 (http://www.scientevents.com/dust2016/).
This should be a very exciting pluridisciplinary dusty meeting with fascinating sessions to participate to. Among them, we encourage you to submit abstracts to the TD05 session addressing key issues of paleodust: TD05 - PALEODUST ARCHIVES: CONSTRAINING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE DUST CYCLE IN THE QUATERNARY convened by Samuel Albani, Gisela Winckler and Denis-Didier Rousseau
The session description reads as follow: " A variety of natural archives have the potential to preserve dust deposition. Records from ice cores, marine, lake sediments, loess/paleosol sequences, and peat bogs have proven not only to be useful proxies of past environmental and climatic conditions at regional and wider scales, but they also constitute an important archive for constraining the magnitude of the global dust cycle across various spatial and time scales. As such, their potential for the validation of Earth System Models is of utmost relevance.
In the past decade, compilations such as DIRTMAP successfully collected data from various archives worldwide, introducing the Dust Mass Accumulation Rate (MAR) as a common quantitative metric to organize paloedust data from different locations and types of archives. A more recent compilation focused on the Holocene provided a framework for consistently organizing time-resolved paleodust MARs records and particle size distributions.
We invite presentations contributing to the discussion on the state of the art of the dust cycle in the past, especially its variability over glacial/interglacial timescales and climate transitions, and how to use information from the past to improve our understanding of the key processes controlling the dust cycle and, thus, improve predictions for the near future."
If you want to contribute to the scientific exchanges we will have, please do not hesitate to submit your abstract before Monday 16 November 2015. The submission can be done at: http://www.scientevents.com/dust2016/abs-submission/. Please convince also your colleagues, friends, and students to attend and submit an abstract.
Colleagues interested in collaborating with the PAGES Working Group on Dust Impact on Climate and Environment (DICE) are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract.
Looking forward to meeting you next summer at DUST2016!
All the very best
Samuel Albani, Cornell University, US, s.albani@cornell.edu
Gisela Winckler, Columbia University, US, winckler@ldeo.columbia.edu
Denis-Didier Rousseau, Ecole Normale Superieure, FR, denis.rousseau@lmd.ens.fr
