| CBEP 2017 Scientific Program | ||
| Sunday, Sept. 3 | ||
| Icebreaker Reception | ||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | ||
| Monday, Sept. 4 | ||
| Planetary Boundaries: Biological diversity & biotic change 1 | ||
| 8:30 | Jones | The significance of nannoplankton boom-bust successions during the Cretaceous-Paleogene recovery at El Kef, Tunisia |
| 8:50 | Alvarez | The post-mass-extinction recovery of calcareous nannoplankton and the Paleogene emergence of new diversity, disparity and ecological strategies |
| 9:10 | Sepulveda | The molecular signature of the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction event: the El Kef Coring Program |
| 9:30 | Sibert | Fish productivity, community structure and evolution decoupled following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction |
| 9:50 | Flynn | Diverse Early Paleocene Fossil Flora from the San Juan Basin (New Mexico, USA) Documents Rapid Recovery Following the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
| Morning Break | ||
| 10:10 - 10:40 | ||
| Biogeochemical consequences of ecological changes during climate events and transitions | ||
| 10:40 | Poster presenters | Lightning talks I |
| 11:00 | Si | Changes in 'vital' effects in photosymbiont-bearing planktonic foraminifera during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| 11:20 | Wilson | Modeling plankton community size-structure during the Paleogene: Interactions between plankton and climate. |
| 11:40 | Griffith | Export production and remineralization over Eocene hyperthermals at ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic and ODP Site 1209, Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean |
| 12:00 | Zill | Evaluating the Significance of Bioturbation for Constraints on Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Carbon Cycling |
| Lunch | ||
| 12:20 - 13:30 | ||
| Poster Session - Earth Surface & Biogeochemistry | ||
| 13:30 - 15:30 | ||
| Refereshments from 14:45 - 15:30 | ||
| Unravelling tectonic and climatic controls on sedimentary and geochemical records | ||
| 15:30 | Foreman | Assessments on aliasing: Geomorphic controls on the quality of terrestrial paleoclimate proxy records |
| 15:50 | Rasmussen | Early Paleogene shifts in fluvial deposition within the Huerfano Basin, Colorado, USA: Evaluation of tectonic and climatic controls |
| 16:10 | Birgenheier | Fluvial response to Paleocene - early Eocene warming events: a complete record |
| 16:30 | Plink-Bjorklund | Fluvial and lake response to Paleocene-Eocene extreme climate, Uinta and Piceance basins, Utah and Colorado |
| 16:50 | Romans | Paleogene Deep-Sea Circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean: Evidence from Seismic-Reflection and Terrigenous Grain-Size Data, Newfoundland Ridge Contourite Drifts |
| 17:10 | Dickens, et al. | Progress and initial discoveries - IODP Leg 371 (teleconference) |
| Tuesday, Sept. 5 | ||
| Planetary Boundaries: Earth surface change | ||
| 8:30 | Hajek | Using landscape dynamics to evaluate observed responses to climate change: improving interpretations by assessing environmental noise and spatial sampling in sedimentary deposits |
| 8:50 | Fan | Global cooling and regional uplift induced diachronous aridification in the interior of western USA across the Eocene-Oligocene transition |
| 9:10 | Zachos | Early Cenozoic hyperthermals and the hydrological cycle: Theory versus observations |
| 9:30 | Acosta | Topographic controls on the Indo-Asian monsoon |
| 9:50 | Snell | Terrestrial response to past global climate and elevation changes in the western US from compiled paleotemperatures |
| Morning Break | ||
| 10:10 - 10:40 | ||
| Biological responses to climate events and transitions | ||
| 10:40 | Poster presenters | Lightning talks II |
| 11:00 | Thomas | Variability of the Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Paleogene Hyperthermal Events |
| 11:20 | Brombacher | Evolutionary response of the planktic foraminifer Orbulinoides beckmanni to climatic change during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) |
| 11:40 | Sessa | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) mollusk fauna of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA |
| 12:00 | Clementz | Insight into ancient seagrass communities from examination of fossilized remains of Sirenia |
| Lunch | ||
| 12:20 - 13:30 | ||
| Afternoon: Resort activities and informal meetings | ||
| Wednesday, Sept. 6 | ||
| Planetary Boundaries: Biological diversity & biotic change 2 | ||
| 8:30 | Dunn | Forest Canopy Change During the PETM, Hanna Basin, WY |
| 8:50 | West | Polar heat: evaluating the impact of an early Eocene hyperthermal event on Arctic forests from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| 9:10 | Vitek | Changes in relative molar size of the small-bodied mammal Macrocranion (Eulipotyphla, Erinaceomorpha) across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum follow the inhibitory cascade model |
| 9:30 | Morse | Changes in Relative Abundance of Primates and Small Mammal Faunal Composition Before, During, and After the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming |
| 9:50 | Bloch | Implications of immigrant arrival times during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum for mammal habitat specificity |
| Morning Break | ||
| 10:10 - 10:40 | ||
| Advances in paleo-proxies: Mechanisms, interpretations, and uncertainty | ||
| 10:40 | Greenwood | Palms as Paleoclimate Proxies: A new 'Palm-Line' |
| 11:00 | Fischer-Femal | Dual Isotopes of Pedogenic Carbonates Record Spatial Patterns of Climate Change over the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) |
| 11:20 | Bhatia | Palaeoecological changes in Eocene planktonic foraminiferal species |
| 11:40 | Freimuth | Regional signal/noise in plant wax dD records: a calibration using lake sediments throughout the Adirondack Mountains, New York |
| 12:00 | Bralower | Drilling the Chicxulub impact structure: Study of large impact formation and effects on life during IODP/ICDP Expedition 364 |
| Lunch | ||
| 12:20 - 13:30 | ||
| Poster Session - Paleobiology & Paleoclimate | ||
| 13:30 - 15:30 | ||
| Refreshments from 14:45 - 15:30 | ||
| Tempo, interaction, and sensitivity of Earth system change across timescales | ||
| 15:30 | Zeebe | New astronomical solutions and orbital variations in atmospheric CO2 during the early Paleogene |
| 15:50 | Vahlenkamp | The metronome of North Atlantic deep-water circulation in the middle Eocene |
| 16:10 | Ivany | Winter temperatures drive climate cooling in the Paleogene subtropics |
| 16:30 | Judd | Late Eocene reduction in Antarctic seasonality as inferred from the isotopic composition of nearshore marine bivalves |
| 16:50 | Kirtland Turner | A probabilistic assessment of the rapidity of PETM onset |
| 17:10 | Gingerich | Temportal scaling of carbon emission rates during onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| Conference Banquet | ||
| 19:00 - 20:30 | ||
| Thursday Sept. 7 | ||
| Planetary Boundaries: Biogeochemical flows and thresholds | ||
| 8:30 | Ridgwell | Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum meets the North Atlantic Igneous Province: Coincidence or global environmental conspiracy? |
| 8:50 | Inglis | Global evidence for enhanced methane cycling during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| 9:10 | Papadomanolaki | Controls on marine organic carbon burial and its impact on the global carbon cycle during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| 9:30 | Reichgelt | Fossil leaves record a short-lived disruption of the carbon cycle at the Paleogene-Neogene boundary |
| 9:50 | Lyons | Destabilization of carbon on land, and coastal ocean response during the PETM: evidence from mid-Atlantic sediments |
| Morning Break | ||
| 10:10 - 10:40 | ||
| General session | ||
| 10:40 | Pearson | Sediment creep, mixing, symbiont bleaching and diagenesis: reinterpretation of the Paleocene / Eocene boundary stable isotope records at ODP Sites 689 and 690, Maud Rise |
| 11:00 | Opdyke | Expedition 342 Descent into the Icehouse |
| 11:20 | van der Ploeg | A multiproxy sea surface temperature reconstruction of the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum from the Newfoundland Drifts in the North Atlantic |
| 11:40 | Fiorella | Reconciling Divergent Carbon Isotope Responses in Ocean and Terrestrial Proxy Records to Constrain Causal Mechanisms for the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum |
| 12:00 | Cossey | Evidence from Eastern Mexico for a Paleocene/Eocene Drawdown of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Lunch | ||
| 12:20 - 13:30 | ||
| Early Cenozoic pCO2: Reconciling proxies and models | ||
| 13:30 | Naafs | A hot debate: Early Paleogene terrestrial temperatures |
| 13:50 | van Dijk | A reduced continental temperature gradient in North America during the Early Eocene |
| 14:10 | Sluijs | Eocene Tropical Temperature Evolution |
| 14:30 | Kowalczyk | Multiple proxy estimates of atmospheric CO2 from an early Paleocene rainforest |
| 14:50 | Barclay | Fossil Atmospheres: Improving Estimates of Ancient Atmospheric CO2 Levels from Ginkgo Leaves |
| 15:10 | Peppe | The relationship between terrestrial climate and CO2 through the early Paleogene and its implications for Earth-system sensitivity |
| Afternoon Break | ||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ||
| Posters, Next CBEP Planning, Wrap-up | ||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | ||
| Closing Reception | ||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | ||
| Posters | ||
| Earth Surface | ||
| 1-1 | Bralower | New core holes of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary near the El Kef Stratotype, northwest Tunisia |
| 1-2 | Wan | Paleogene stratigraphy and elimination of Tibet-Tethyan Sea |
| 1-3 | Beasley | Investigating Palaeogene strata from Oman and the UAE; new insights from integrated chemostratigraphy, sedimentology and biostratigraphy |
| 1-4 | McCartney | The Trans-Saharan Seaway recorded in the rocks of Mali: a key Paleogene locality for the study of global eustasy and paleotemperature in the ancient Tropics |
| 1-5 | Westerhold | Synchronizing early Eocene deep-sea and continental records: a new cyclostratigraphic age models from the Bighorn Basin Coring Project |
| 1-6 | Ma | Chronostratigraphy of the Green River Formation |
| 1-7 | Wing | PETM Stratigraphy of the Basin Substation core |
| 1-8 | Gao | Early Paleogene continental hydroclimate and surface uplift of the Uinta Mountains in southwestern Wyoming, U.S.A. |
| 1-9 | Greenberg | Reconstructing fluvial channel mobility through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming) |
| 1-10 | Dechesne | PETM response of a swampy fluvial to lacustrine system in a rapidly subsiding basin, Hanna Basin, Wyoming, USA. |
| 1-11 | Foreman | Tectonic and climatic controls on fluvial deposition during the early Paleogene in the Piceance Creek Basin, northwest Colorado, U.S.A. |
| 1-12 | Elson | A record of terrestrial hydrology in a long-lived Eocene Lake Uinta, Green River Formation, Utah |
| 1-13 | Secord | Recognition of carbon isotope excursions in the lower Paleocene terrestrial record of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA |
| 1-14 | Zellman | Sedimentological evidence for increased precipitation extremes at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico |
| 1-15 | Leslie | Terrestrial evidence for hyperthermals in the lower Paleocene Upper Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico |
| 1-16 | Hantsoo | Tracking the North Atlantic shelf-to-basin response to the PETM: Analysis with a high-resolution, terrain-following model |
| Biogeochemistry | ||
| 1-17 | Baczynski | Soil carbon stability during periods of global warming |
| 1-18 | Schlanser | Plant carbon isotope fractionation in the Eocene and Oligocene |
| 1-19 | Remmelzwaal | Ocean deoxygenation during the Palaeogene Hyperthermals |
| 1-20 | Norris | Export Production in the Early Eocene--High Productivity despite Low Organic Matter Preservation |
| 1-21 | Bralower | Ocean Acidification on the Continental Shelf during the Onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximium |
| 1-22 | Ballaron | The magnitude of PETM carbon and oxygen isotope anomalies on the North American mid-Atlantic Shelf |
| 1-23 | Rush | Stable Isotope and %Carbonate Variations across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in the Howards Tract core, Maryland: Implications for Regional Sediment Fluxes and Climate Change |
| 1-24 | Kelly | Use of Single-Foraminifer Stable Isotope Analyses to Study the Response of Austral Planktic Foraminifera to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at ODP Site 1135 |
| 1-25 | Schrader | Temperature - carbon cycle interactions during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge) |
| Paleobiology | ||
| 2-1 | Arreguin Rodriguez | Faunal response to a potential hyperthermal event: benthic foraminifera at ODP Site 1262 across the Dan-C2 event |
| 2-2 | Weiss | Survivors: Ecological Selectivity of Corals Across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum |
| 2-3 | Clyde | New Perspectives on the Correlation of South American Land Mammal Ages to Early Paleogene Climate Changes Based on Recent Chronostratigraphic Results from the San Jorge Basin, Argentina |
| 2-4 | Wagner | Environmental change in a neritic setting before, during, and after the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Insights from magnetofossil and microfossil assemblages. |
| 2-5 | Stassen | Shelf dynamics during the PETM along the New Jersey Coastal Plain |
| 2-6 | Robinson | Differing Foraminiferal Signatures of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Onset in Shallow Marine Sediments |
| 2-7 | Self-Trail | A very (very) preliminary chronostratigraphic framework of an expanded and structurally controlled early Eocene section from the Knapps Narrows core, Salisbury Embayment, USA |
| 2-8 | Christensen | An initial look at PETM foraminiferal assemblages from Howards Tract 2, a new USGS core from the Salisbury Embayment |
| 2-9 | Arreguin Rodriguez | Analysing early Eocene deep-sea benthic foraminifera |
| 2-10 | Luciani | Planktic foraminiferal response to the early Eocene carbon cycle perturbations |
| 2-11 | Steeman | Dinocyst events across the ETM-2 hyperthermal event at the southern edge of the North Sea Basin |
| 2-12 | Hall | Ostracode Response to Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 in the Equatorial Atlantic |
| 2-13 | Kowalczyk | An assessment of climate-vegetation feedbacks under different boundary conditions using global climate model simulations |
| 2-14 | Schmidt | Effects of water availability on forest ecosystems during the Paleocene-Eocene in Wyoming |
| 2-15 | Pinheiro | Insect herbivory in the hothouse early Eocene Wind River Formation Floras, central Wyoming, USA. |
| 2-16 | Patrick | The early Eocene San Juan Basin flora: An investigation into the early Cenozoic history of the U.S. Mountain West |
| 2-17 | Sudermann | A palynological investigation of the Arctic late Paleocene/early Eocene Margaret formation at Stenkul Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| 2-18 | Lowe | Plant community and climate dynamics at the onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, McAbee Fossil Beds, British Columbia, Canada |
| Paleoclimate | ||
| 2-19 | Milligan | Revised estimates of atmospheric CO2 across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary |
| 2-20 | Bowen | Multiproxy records of Paleocene to Eocene climates and environments, Big Bend National Park |
| 2-21 | Aleksinski | Site-specific trends in d13C and d18O across the late Paleocene to early-middle Eocene |
| 2-22 | Westerhold | New Eocene benthic stable isotope record for the Pacific: completing a 22 Ma high-resolution single site Paleogene section from Shatsky Rise |
| 2-23 | Stassen | Early Eocene climate variability in the North Sea Basin: a Belgian perspective |
| 2-24 | Piga | How hot is hot? Palaeotemperatures in the Eocene Indo-Pacific Warm Pool |
| 2-25 | Coxall | Deep-sea stable isotope stratigraphy from the late Eocene of IODP Site U1411: precession and eccentricity pacing at the close of the Eocene greenhouse |
| 2-26 | Steinthorsdottir | Significant decrease in atmospheric pCO2 prior to the Eocene-Oligocene transition |
| 2-27 | Bohaty | Timing and evolution of the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition: new insight from IODP Site U1411, Northwest Atlantic |
| 2-28 | Kennedy | Exploring mechanisms of change at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition |
| 2-29 | Lippert | Magnetofossil and oceanographic change across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in a Northwest Atlantic sediment drift |
| 2-30 | Owen Jones | North Atlantic Oligocene sea surface temperature change at IODP Sites U1406 and U1411 (Newfoundland margin) |
| 2-31 | Meijer | Astronomical forcing of Eocene Asian monsoons |
