35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

35TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016  |  CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA



Climate Change Studies

The notifications to presenting authors confirming their specific date and time of presentation will be communicated the 20 August 2016.

Second Draft Preliminary programme is being updated per theme as the SPC signs them off.

The detailed draft day by day programme for each theme is being announced as it is being collated. These are still preliminary and will be finalised by the 20 August.

As this is the Second draft, please note that where there are abstract presenters not yet registered, these have now been removed from the programme.
Once removed, you will not be included in the abstracts or the programme. If your co-author is presenting, please contact the secretariat urgently to confirm and advise so that your paper can be moved to the correct presenter. Email 35igc@allevents.co.za if you have any queries or if you have in the interim managed to secure finances and registered.

To view the detailed programme, click here.

View all Themes

Climate Change Studies

Theme Champions


Gideon  Henderson
Gideon Henderson
University of Oxford
E-mail Gideon
Sidney Hemming
Sidney Hemming
Columbia University
E-mail Sidney
Coleen Vogel
University of the Witwatersrand
E-mail Coleen
The appointment of theme champions may not be complete and names will continue to be added as invitees are confirmed.


Keynote Speakers

  1. Hai Cheng  - Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

    Climate variability of the Asian monsoon and Westerlies as seen through speleothem records

 

31ST MAY 2015 Additional symposium proposals must now be submitted directly to the theme champions (Please be sure to include the name of the proposer, seconder and short motivation).
1ST JULY 2015 -
31ST JANUARY 2016
Call for abstracts
31ST MARCH 2016 Notifications of acceptance

Climate Change Studies

Climate change is one of the dominant challenges of our time. Papers and symposia are invited on all the geoscience subjects related to the study and understanding of climate change, both past and present. 

For a list of the Abstracts that have been ACCEPTED UNDER THIS THEME CLICK HERE ➤

Please note that this is preliminary and final allocations in the programme will be announced in the 5th Announcement and updated on the Website in July.


PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL PRESENTING AUTHORS (FOR ORALS) OR AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR (FOR POSTERS) MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE MEETING BY 31 MAY 2016 IN ORDER TO HAVE THE ABSTRACT INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME.

 

The following symposium proposals have already been submitted:
  1. Vinod Tewari, Snigdha Ghatak, Kathleen Histon and Jooly Jaiswal
    » Past Global Climate Change In The Himalaya and Future Implications
  2. Vinod Tewari and Jooly Jaiswal
    » Speleothem and Speleogenesis: Past Climate Change, Monsoon and Geomicrobiological Process
  3. Mohammed Sayyed, Alexander Makeev and Dhiraj Banerjee
    » Palaeosols, palaeoweathering profiles and polygenetic soils indicators of climate change
  4. Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Tamara Yanina and Olena Smyntyna
    » From the Caspian to the Mediterranean: Environmental change and human response during the Quaternary: IGCP610
  5. Shijie Wang, Junhua Yan, Zaihua Liu and Jian Ni
    » Biogeochemical processes, climate and land use changes in karst critical zones
  6. Neloy Khare, K..J. Ramesh, Shilpa Pande, Kirtiman Awasthi and Pankaj Baghel
    » Understanding Tropical Climate Change from geological perspectives through multi-dimensional approach
  7. Tanvi Arora and Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma (YES Network)
    » Climate Change Impact on Global Water Resources
  8. Mriganka Ghatak
    » Geoscientific tools in integrating Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction
  9. Open Session
    For all submissions that do not fall into currently identified symposia