Friday 20th April 2012

Diapartimento di Scienze della Terra

Università di Pisa

Via S. Maria, 53; Aula C

A meeting about the past, the present and the future: the role of geoscience in the study of the global changes and the connection with other disciplines.

Earth scientist must continue to make breakthrough discoveries on how Earth responds to climate forcing so that climate models can be rigorously validated and refined and reasonable future scenarios on environmental evolution can be proposed and related mitigation plans adopted. Since the Earth responds to most this forcing over time scales that exceed the length of the weather measurements, the study of the past is of crucial importance. The study of the global changes has moved rapidly from an academic world to being an integral part of major debates on future policies for mitigation or adapting, for instance, to climate changes. However, Earth science needs to face continuously with different disciplines like social sciences to understand what can be profitably learned from the past. This meeting, open to phD students, undergraduate students, researchers, teachers of different paleoscience fields wants to give a view of the role of the geosciences in the study different aspects of the “Global Changes” and the integrating role of different fields


The Organizing committee: Luca Pandolfi, Roberto Santacroce, Giovanni Zanchetta

PROGRAM

10,00-11,00 Prof. Piero LIONELLO (University of Lecce)
“Mediterranean Climate: trends and future projections”

11,00-12,00 Prof. Elisabetta ERBA (University of Milano)
“The response of planktonic calcifiers to global changes during the Mesozoic: life strategies, adaptation and evolution during episodes of ocean acidification, fertilization and anoxia”

12,00-13,00 Prof. Valter MAGGI (University of Milano)
“Climate change from Antarctic ice cores. Past, present and future”

14,00-15,00 Prof. Neil ROBERTS (University of Plymouth)
“Mediterranean climate and civilization during the Holocene “

15,00-16,00 Prof. Peter CLIFT (Louisiana State University )
“Feedbacks between climate, erosion and tectonism in South and SE Asia during the Cenozoic onMillennial and longer timescales”

16,00-17,00 Prof. Vincent COURTILLOT (Paris Diderot University)
“Extreme global change and mass extinctions, past and future”

(talking ca 40-45 min and 15 min for discussion; the talk can be given in Italian or English)

Participation is free, but a registration is welcome.

For detailed information and registration please contact: globalchanges2012@dst.unipi.it

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