IMAGES-sponsored workshops and meetings

ICP-8 (the Eighth International Meeting on Paleoceanography)

was held in Biarritz (France), September 5-10 2004 and organized by the EPOC laboratory (University Bordeaux I), under the sponsorship of French institutions. Both IMAGES and SCOR provided travel grants to students and scientists from developing countries to help underwrite their participation at this meeting.

A short report on this meeting can be read here .
The meeting agenda and the abstract booklet can be viewed here.

The "Holocene Climate Variability" workshop –

organized by the IMAGES Holocene Working Group -- was held in Hafslo (Norway), August 28-30, 2003, under the sponsorship of IMAGES, PAGES, NSF and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (Bergen).

The main output of this workshop is a special issue of Quarternary Science Reviews, Volume 23, Issues 20-22, Nov. 2004), gathering fifteen articles focused on the variability of the Holocene climate.

IMAGES P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS WG "Stratigraphy"

Council on the World Ocean Problems, RAS Workshop "Correlation of post-glacial climatic events in the Arctic and Far East Seas". Moscow, April 17 - 20, 2000.

A short summary report of this meeting can be found here

"Quaternary evolution of the Benguela coastal upwelling system: its responses to local and global climate changes"

was held near Bordeaux, April 19-21, 2000, under the sponsorship of IMAGES (PAGES-IGBP), the University of Bordeaux I, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

The meeting agenda can be read here. A short report on this meeting can be read here. The abstract booklet can be viewed here.

EPILOG: Global Ice Sheets and Sea Level During the Last Glacial Maximum

IMAGES is co-sponsoring, with IGBP/PAGES, INQUA, and NSF, the second in a series of EPILOG workshops, on "Global Ice Sheets and Sea Level During the Last Glacial Maximum". The workshop was held between October 1-5, 2000.

Click here for a short report of the meeting

TRINS:Climate-Variations over the last 80 ka on Decadal-to-Millennial Time-Scales

Creating a joint global time scale of decadal-to-millennial-scale climate oscillations was discussed by more than 50 top scientists at the SCOR-IMAGES Workshop in Trins, Austria, February 16-19, 2000.

Click here for an EOS-publication of the meeting