IMAGES WEPAMA Working Group Meeting II - Taipei, Taiwan

February 22, 23, Institute of EarthSciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei

Agenda

Day 1 February 22, 2001

Presider Chi-Yue Huang

9:10

Welcoming Statements and Overview of Meeting Objectives
Min-Te Chen & Jose Ortiz

9:10-9:40

Overview of WEPAMA WG Meeting I and IMAGES 2001 Cruise Objectives, Western Pacific Warm Pool Variability, East Asian Monsoon, Circulation Changes (INDOPAC Exchange, Kuroshio), ENSO, Site Selection, and Methodologies
Min-Te Chen

9:50-10:20

 Spectral Deconvolution of the Summer Monsoon, Winter Monsoon,
and Global Ice Volume Signals in Pleistocene Records from the South China Sea
Steve Clemens
10:30-11:00

High Resolution Deglacial Sea Surface Temperature Records
from the Tropical South China Sea
Markus Kienast
11:10-11:40 ENSO-Like Rocking of the Equatorial Thermocline at Orbital Scale
During the Last 240,000 years
Luc Beaufort
12:00-14:00

Break for Lunch

Presider Kuo-Yen Wei
14:10-14:40 Regional Variations in the Response of SST to Ice Volume,
Northeastern and Equatorial Pacific
Timothy D. Herbert
14:50-15:20 Paleoceanographic Targets of Long-Coring in the Sea of Okhotsk
Michael Levitan
15:30-16:00 High Resolution SST and SSS Records of an IMAGES Core (MD982195)
in the North East China Sea
Tadamichi Oba
16:10-16:40 Terrestrial and Ocean Environmental Change Around the Western Sector of the WPWP During the Late Pleistocene
Hodaka Kawahata
16:40 Discussion
17:30 Dinner

Day 2 February 23, 2001

Presider Teh-Quei Lee

9:10-9:40 Linking Ocean and Continental Records of Paleoclimate:
The Role of Non- Destructive Measurements in Developing Paleoceanographic
and Climatic Proxies
Frank R. Rack
9:50-10:20 Monsoon Variability, Terrestrial Aridity and the Sediment Records
of the South China Sea: Inferences From Diffuse Spectral Reflectance
Joseph D. Ortiz
10:30-11:00

Quantitative Benthic Foraminiferal Analysis as a Tool to Reconstruct the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Carbon Flux and Paleoproductivity:
Examples From the South China Sea and Northeastern Indian Ocean
Ann Holbourn

11:10-11:40

Quantifying Sedimentary Fabric as a Proxy for Past Water-Mass
and Benthic Ecosystem Variability
Richard J. Behl
11:40 Discussion + Questions for all invited talks
12:00-14:00 Break for Lunch
14:10-17:30 Panel Discussion on New Methods and Future IMAGES Cruise Objectives
(lead by Min-Te Chen & Joe Ortiz and participated by all working group members)

Brief Reports (5 min./each):

  • Taiwan National Science Council (NSC) Ocean Science Program - Chi-An Huh
  • Taiwan ODP: KS-1 Drilling for Kuroshio Paleoceanography - Kuo-Yen Wei
  • Taiwan APEC program: Continental Lake Drilling - Teh-Quei Lee
  • Introduction to IMAGES Program --- Ann Holbourn
  • IMAGES 2001 WEPAMA Cruise --- Franck Bassinot