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1 Centre for Global Change Science Graduate Student Research Symposium October 21-22, 2010

2 Event Map A B C D E F McLennan Physics Building 60 St.George Street Bahen Centre 40 St.George Street George Ignatieff Theatre (at Trinity College) 5 Devonshire Place Hart House 7 Hart House Circle Park Hyatt Hotel - Toronto 4 Avenue Road Massey College 4 Devonshire Place

3 Schedule Summary Thursday, October 21, 2010 Time Title Location 14:30 15:00 Coffee Discussion MP :30 16:00 Introductory Remarks BAHEN :00 17:30 Session 1: Remote Sensing BAHEN 1180 Friday, October 22, 2010 Notes: MP110: Time Title Location 10:00 11:30 Session 2: Paleoclimate and Climate IGNATIEFF Proxies 11:45 13:15 Lunch HART ECR 13:30 15:00 Session 3: The Effect of Global Change on IGNATIEFF Biological Processes 15:00 15:30 Coffee Break IGNATIEFF 15:30 17:00 Session 4: Atmospheric and Hydrological IGNATIEFF Dynamical Processes 17:00 Closing Remarks IGNATIEFF McLennan Physics Building, room MP St.George Street BAHEN 1180: Bahen Centre, room St.George Street IGNATIEFF: George Ignatieff Theatre Trinity College 15 Devonshire Place HART ECR: Hart House, East Common Room 7 Hart House Circle

4 Thursday, October 21, 2010 Detailed Schedule Coffee Discussion (14:30 15:00) McLennan Physics Building, Room 110 Introductory Remarks (15:30 16:00) Bahen Centre, room 1180 Introductory Remarks Keven Roy Chair of the Student Organizing Committee Welcome Professor W.R. Peltier Director of the Centre for Global Change Science Session 1 (16:00 17:30) Remote Sensing Bahen Centre, room 1180 Invited Speaker Dr. Rebecca Batchelor National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases from the Ground What Can We Learn and How Can We Contribute? Student Presentations Felicia Kolonjari (Physics) Measurements of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons from Space Using the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer and Ground-based Spectrometers Milos Markovic (Chemistry) Measurements of Inorganic Composition of Fine Atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM 2.5 ) and Associated Precursor Gases in Bakersfield, CA, During CalNex 2010

5 Zen Mariani (Physics) Using Infrared Emission Spectroscopy to Study Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Radiation

6 Friday, October 22, 2010 Session 2 (10:00 11:30) Paleoclimate and Climate Proxies Invited Speaker Professor Anne de Vernal Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Montréal The Interglacials of the Last Million Years in High Northern Latitudes: Evidence from Sedimentary Archives Student Presentations Dr. Joan Bunbury (Geography and Geology CGCS Post-Doctoral Fellow) 2000 Years of Environmental Change Inferred from Lake Sediments, Southwest Yukon Territory Heather Andres (Physics) The NEEM Adventure: Three Weeks Spent at the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Field Camp Charlotte Friel (Geography) Late Holocene Paleolimnological Records from the Hudson Bay Region Lunch (11:45 13:15) East Common Room, Hart House

7 Session 3 (13:30 15:00) The Effect of Global Change on Biological Processes Invited Speaker Dr. Andrew MacDougall University of Guelph, Guelph Global Change and the Structure and Function of Grasslands Student Presentations Devin Bloom (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Into the Amazon: How Marine Fishes Rode the Wave of a Global Sea-Level Rise into South American Freshwater Rivers Patricia Pernica (Physics) Mixing and Stratification in the Epilimnion of Lake Opeongo Olga Bykova (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) The Influence of Climate Change on the Distribution of Catastrophic Bioinvaders. Coffee Break (15:00 15:30) Session 4 (15:30 17:00) Atmospheric and Hydrological Dynamical Processes Invited Speaker Dr. Michel Bourqui McGill University, Montréal Changes in the Stratosphere through the 21 st Century

8 Student Presentations Dr. Melissa Coman (Physical and Environmental Sciences CGCS Post- Doctoral Fellow) Temperature Variability in the Near Shore Benthic Region of Lake Opeongo Xianming Zhang (Chemistry) Radial Distributions of Semi-volatile Organic Chemicals within the Sampling Media of Passive Air Samplers Peter Hitchcock (Physics) Radiative Damping and the Variability of the Arctic Polar Vortex Closing Remarks (17:00) Professor W.R. Peltier Director of the Centre for Global Change Science

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