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Conference Programme<br />

Tuesday 7th January<br />

0830 Registration and coffee (Main Hall)<br />

9.15 – 10.45 <strong>The</strong>me 1: Causes of climate change<br />

0915 Chronis Tzedakis (University College London)<br />

Towards a unified theory of Quaternary climate variability: the Heroic Age and<br />

the modern synthesis<br />

0945 Phil Jones (University of East Anglia)<br />

Causes of Climate Change over the last 500 years<br />

1015 Discussion<br />

1045 Coffee and posters<br />

11.15 – 12.45 <strong>The</strong>me 2: Measuring time<br />

1115 John Lowe (<strong>Royal</strong> Holloway University of London) and Mike Walker (University<br />

of Wales, Lampeter)<br />

Measuring Quaternary time: a 50-year perspective<br />

1135 Chris Bronk Ramsey (University of Oxford)<br />

Radiocarbon dating and its revolutions<br />

1155 Siwan Davies (Swansea University)<br />

A little goes a long way: the emergence of tephrochronology<br />

1215 Discussion<br />

1245 Lunch and posters<br />

14.00 – 15.30 <strong>The</strong>me 3: Measuring and understanding climate change<br />

1400 Valerie Masson-Delmotte (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette)<br />

Measuring and understanding climate change<br />

1430 Danny McCarroll (Swansea University)<br />

Measuring and understanding climate change: a brief retrospective<br />

1500 Discussion<br />

1530 Tea and posters<br />

16.00 – 17.30 <strong>The</strong>me 4: Modelling the earth system<br />

1600 Paul Valdes (University of Bristol)<br />

Palaeoclimate Modelling: <strong>The</strong> past, present, and future.<br />

1630 Sandy Harrison (Macquarie University & University of Reading)<br />

Modelling the Earth System: Challenges in using Observations for Model<br />

Evaluation<br />

1700 Discussion<br />

1730 Drinks, posters, QRA AGM

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