Mini-conference on Mongolian
Paleoclimatology and Environmental Research
.


Purpose:

To bring together scientists in the US studying Mongolia's paleoclimate and environment for exchange of information and development of collaborations. (see general description here)

When
& Where:

November 3rd and 4th, 2000 at Lamont Hall on the
campus of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
.

Presentation Format:

Attendees will have 25 minutes to present followed by a 5 minute question and answer period.


Program Schedule

Abstracts


Preprint of Abstracts

(in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format)

Proceedings - coming soon!


Program Schedule

Date

Time

Author

Title

Friday,
November 3
10:00 AM Tree-Ring Lab Staff
Introduction
(The late start is because several attendees may be driving in from some distance the first day)
10:30 AM Jordan Feng
Dept. of Earth & Env. Studies, Montclair State Univ., Upper Montclair, NJ & Dept. of Geography, Lanzhou Univ.,Lanzhou, China
Paleo-Subarctic Environmental Variations during the Last Glacial Maximum: Proxy Data from North America and Northern Mongolia
11:00 AM Jason A. Rech,
Dept. of Geosciences & Desert Lab., Univ. Arizona and P. Jeffrey Brantingham,
John W. Olsen
Late-Glacial and Holocene Environments in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia: evidence from cave sediments and human occupation
11:30 AM E. B. Karabanov,
Dept. of Geol. Sciences, Univ. of South Carolina
D.F. Williams, V.G. Sideleva, G.K. Khursevich, M.I. Kuzmin, A. A. Prokopenko, T.E. Afonina, A.N. Gvozdkov
Glacial Ecological Catastrophes of Lake Baikal (Siberia) and Lake Hovsgol (Mongolia) During the Pleistocene
12:00 PM Alexander A. Prokopenko,
Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina
P. Eugene B. Karabanov, Douglas F. Williams, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, Galina K. Khursevich
Millennial-scale erosional events in Lake Baikal watershed indicate past changes of precipitation regime in southeast Siberia and northern Monglolia
12:30 PM
Lunch!!
2:00 PM John Peck,
Univ. of Akron, Akron, Ohio
P. Khosbayar, Sarah Fowell, S. Ariunbileg, G. Erdenejav, John King, Douglas Williams, Sasha Prokopenko, Barbara Hansen, Richard Pearce, T. Sainzaya, Nergui Soninkhishig
Mongolian Lake Systems Record Holocene Climate Change
2:30 PM Jin Meng
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Vertebrate Paleontology in Mongolia
3:00 PM Rosanne D'Arrigo,
Tree-Ring Lab. Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. New York
G. Jacoby, N. Pederson, D. Frank, B. Buckley, B. Nachin, R. Mijiddorj, Ch. Dugarjav
Millennial Temperature Record for Mongolia from Tree Rings
3:30 PM Neil Pederson,
Tree-Ring Lab. Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. New York
G. Jacoby, R. D'Arrigo E. Cook, B. Buckley, B. Nachin, Ch. Dugrajav, R. Mijiddorj
Decadal Drought and Streamflow Variability in East-Central Mongolia
4:00 PM
Coffee Break!!
4:30 PM T. Chuluun,
Natural Resource Ecology Lab., Colorado State Univ.
Dennis Ojima and Larry Tieszen
Grassland Ecosystem Dynamics and Land Use Impact in the Mongolian Steppe
5:00 PM Clinton C. Black, Jr.
University of Georgia
Richness and Asymmetry of Plant Diversity in Mongolia
5:30 PM Alan Gillespie and Bud Burke presented by Bernard Hallet,
Quaternary Research CenterUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA
and Dept. Geology, Humboldt State University
Glacial Geology In Central Asia
6:00 PM
END OF SESSION!!
6:30 PM
D & D
for Evening Sustenance.

Date

Time

Author

Title

Saturday,
November 4
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
On-Site
9:00 AM Jon Gelhaus
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
A Biological Inventory of the Aquatic Insects of Lake Hovsgol and its Watershed, particularly focusing on the Crane Flies (INSECTA: Diptera: Tipuloides)
9:30 AM Clyde Goulden
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
Recent Changes at Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia
10:00 AM Richard P. Reading
Dept. of Conservation Biology, Denver Zoological Foundation, Denver, Colorado
Wild Ungulate Conservation in Mongolia
10:30 AM
Coffee Break!!
11:00 AM Gordon Jacoby,
Tree-Ring Lab. Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. New York
N. Pederson, B. Nachin, R. D'Arrigo, B. Buckley, Ch. Dugarjav, D. Frank, R. Mijiddorj
THE MATRIP Project and Tree-ring Applications in Mongolia
11:30 AM
Review of Meeting and Discussions
12:30 PM
Lunch!!
2:00 PM
Discussions and Closure
2:30 PM
Open for individual discussions
and travel


Meals and Accommodations:

Lunch and dinner on Friday the 3rd and breakfast and lunch on the 4th will be provided. Housing will also be provided.


Location:

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
of Columbia University
Palisades, New York 10964

Conveners:

Gordon C. Jacoby,
Sr. Research Scientist
email: druid@ldeo.columbia.edu
phone: (845) 365 8616
Neil Pederson,
Graduate Research Assistant
email: adk@ldeo.columbia.edu
phone: (845) 365-8783


If there are any questions, please feel free to email Gordon or me. Please have patience with our response time.


Tree-Ring Laboratory
LDEO of Columbia Univ.
Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964
Voice: (845) 365-8517
Fax: (845) 365-8152


Last updated: October, 2000 (Neil)