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CPEP Seminar Series Speakers, 2001-2007

Name and Affiliation	Date	Title
Kam-biu Liu, Louisiana State University	Nov 2001	Typhoon History
Fred Wendorf, Southern Methodist University	Mar 2002	Ancient settlement in the Egyptian Sahara
Sarah Metcalfe, University of Edinburgh	Sept 2002	1) Climatic and environmental disturbances in MesoAmerica – the making of an environmental crisis? And 2) Long-term climate change in Mexico
Alison Stenger, Institute for Archaeological Studies	Oct 2003	Life and times in a Pleistocene bog… Archaeoclimatology collaboration
Steven Forman, University of Chicago	Mar 2004	Deciphering dune depositional records from western Nebraska: Landscape response to mega-droughts in the past 1500 years
Linda Scott Cummings PaleoResearch Institute	April 2004	Climate and Paleo-Indian Field Data: collaboration on archaeoclimatology
Carolyn Chenery, British Geological Survey	Aug 2004	Oxygen isotopes-their role in determining human place of origin and potential use on continental palaeo-climate studies
Tom Johnson, University of Minnesota	Sept 2004	25,000-yr history of winds, precipitation, temperature from the so. African tropics
Steve Jackson, University of Wyoming	Nov 2004	Biotic response to Late Quaternary climate and variability: Perspectives from the eastern and western u.S.
Mark Shapley, University of Minnesota	Nov 2004	Aspects of paleorecords in groundwater-controlled lakes: lessons from the northern Rockies
Jim Russell, University of Minnesota	Nov 2004	Regional feedbacks and modulation of global climate variability: case studies of lacustrine records from tropical Africa
J.J. Shinker, Indiana State University	Feb 2005	Process-analysis approach for North American aridity
William F. Ruddiman, University of Virginia	April 2005	Human influences on climate (also Yi-Fu Lecture, Geography)
E. Ekdahl, University of Nebraska	April 2005	Anthropogenic modification of Crawford Lake, Ontario
Rita Wright, New York University	Oct 2005	Environment and settlement in Harappa
Jason McLachlan, Center for Population Biology	Nov 2005	Postponed
Karl Heinz Wyrwoll, University of Western Australia	Nov 2005	Australian summer monsoon changes and variability over Quaternary time scale
David Leigh, University of Georgia	Dec 2005	Holocene fluvial systems in the Southeastern US
Kate Rolsted, University of Copenhagen	Feb 2006	The Eemian-Weichselian transition of Emmerlev Kiev, Western Denmark: a terrestrial pollen and charcoal sequence dated by OSL
Lynn Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Feb 2006	Dissociating genetic and environmental effects on conifer needle morphology: Can we use morphological traits as environmental proxies
Kristine Bovy, University of Washington	Mar 2006	Effects of human hunting, climate change, and tectonic effects on waterbirds along the Pacific Northwest coast during the Late Holocene
Amy Myrbo, University of Minnesota	Mar 2006	Sedimentary and historical context of eutrophication and remediation in urban Lake McCarrons (Roseville, MN)
Heather McInnes, University of Oregon	Apr 2006	Culture and climate in the southern coastal Andes: Assessing the causes and contexts of the middle Holocene Silencio Arquelogico
Ron Gable, University of Nebraska	Apr 2006	From the Nebraska hills to the Gulf Coast, exploring the limits of optical dating
Simone Riehl, University of Tuebingen, Stuttgart, Germany	Apr 2006	Bioclimatic assessment of archaeobotanical crop plan assemblages--a criterion for the understanding of agricultural decision making in the ancient Near East
Brian Shuman, University of Minnesota	Apr 2006	Savanna to forest transition triggered by dry conditions in Minnesota after AD 1200
Elizabeth Robertson, University of Calgary	Apr 2006	Archaeological implications of Holocene geomorphology and palaeoenvironments on the Northern Plains: Recent research in the Cypress Hills of SE Alberta
Patrick Bartlein, University of Oregon	Apr 2006	Applicability of modern climate models (ENSO, PDO, AMO and all the other O's) for explaining the paleoclimatic record
Greg McDonald, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO	Apr 2006	Extinct Pleistocene Megafauna: their paleoecology and paleoclimatic models--implications for Pleistocene extinctions in North America
Reid A. Bryson, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Oct 2006	Grassland Climates
Shelley Crausbay, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Oct 2006	Temperature and precipitation data near the trade wind inversion on Haleakala, Maui
Noah Diffenbaugh, Purdue University	Nov 2006	Mid-Holocene climate dynamics of North America and the northeast Pacific
Konstantin Pustovoytov	Nov 2006	Carbonates in Soils and Case Studies from Arid Regions
Sherri Fritz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Nov 2006	Deciphering Holocene Drought History from Lacustrine Records in the North American Interior
Colin Long, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Dec 2006	Pacific Northwest fires, volcanoes, and forests: Evidence from the past informing the future. [Canceled due to snow.]
Samantha Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Dec 2006	Climate, Vegetation, and Possible ENSO signals from the LGM and OIS 6 Reconstructed from Pollen and Tree Rings in the Central US
Sarah Bogen, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Dec 2006	Charcoal, Pollen, and People for the Past 2000 Years at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
Mike Notaro, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Feb 2007	Vegetation feedbacks in Northern Africa during the middle Holocene
Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas	Feb 2007	Historical versus Ecological Determinants of Species’ Geographic Distributions
Reid A. Bryson, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Feb 2007	Environments of the Northwest Entrada
Michael Tweiten, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mar 2007	The interaction of changing patterns of land use, sub-Alpine forest composition and fire regime at Buck Lake, Mount Rainier National Park, USA
Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mar 2007	How will species respond to future and novel climate regimes? Lessons from the Quaternary.
Colin Long, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Mar 2007	Discussion: Methods for reconstructing fire history
CPEP Seminar Members	Mar 2007	Bryson CPEP pilot program reports
Reid A. Bryson, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mar 2007	Mid-Holocene Floods in Mesopotamia, as modeled with Archaeoclimatology
Raghu Murtugudde	Apr 2007	From Rainwater Harvesting to Agrohortiforestry: sustainable water resource management through tree-based farming
Joint Event with the Anthropology Dept.	Apr 2007	Debate on the Origins of Agriculture
Jacqueline Gill, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Apr 2007	Keystones, Clovis, and Climate: the state of the megafaunal extinction debate
Simone Riehl, CPEP post-doc, University of Wisconsin-Madison	May 2007	Stable Carbon Isotopes in Ancient Plant Remains and their Potential in Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction
Steven Leavitt, University of Arizona	May 2007	Great Lakes paleoclimate from sub-fossil wood
Irina P. Panyushkina, University of Arizona	May 2007	A 3000-year Record of Larch Tree Rings in the Russian Altai: Application for Climate and Human History
Adrien Mauss, French National School for Meteorology	Jun 2007	Range of vegetation responses to future climate change, with focus on Southwest United States
Maria Hajnalova, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra (Slovakia)	Oct 1, 2007	Crops, cultivation methods, and land use changes in farming history of east-central Europe - a climate response?
Reid A. Bryson, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Oct 29, 2007	Water, grass, and horses in the Holocene of Western Asia
Jacquelyn Gill, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Nov 5, 2007	Investigating biotic drivers of Quaternary landscape change: late glacial no-analog communities and the North American megafaunal extinction
Michael Tweiten, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Nov 12, 2007	The response of a jack pine-dominated forest to the climate variability of the last 1800 years
Gwenaëlle Philippon, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay	Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:30 am	Ice-sheets interactions during the last deglaciation and during the Last Glacial Inception ... and industrial applications for the Global Warming
Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Nov 26, 2007	Assessing changes in the timing and abruptness of early Holocene drying in midcontinental North America
Robert Marchant, Queens University, Ireland	Dec 3, 2007	Afromontane ecosystem stability or change - Combining methodologies to understand past, present and future ecosystem shifts within the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot of Tanzania and Kenya

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