Save the date! Joint GEOTRACES/PAGES Workshop

SAVE THE DATE!

Joint GEOTRACES/PAGES Workshop

Trace element and isotope proxies in paleoceanography:
A synthesis workshop

3 – 5 December 2018, Aix-Marseille, France

Workshop: The joint GEOTRACES/PAGES workshop on the synthesis of geochemical proxies used in paleoceanography aims to establish the strength, limits and conditions of application of a given proxy. There is a vital need for a synthesis of geochemical proxies used in paleoceanography to improve interpretation of commonly used proxies. This synthesis is timely in view of the wealth of new data coming from GEOTRACES and contemporary programs. The workshop will bring together expertise from GEOTRACES, PAGES, and the broader oceanographic community of observationalists and modellers that will exploit new data to provide a more rigorous calibration of proxies and interpretation of their records.

Working groups: Biological productivity / Oceanic circulation / Particle flux and sedimentation rate / Physical and/or biogeochemical modelling.

Sponsors: PAGES, GEOTRACES, SCOR, US-NSF, CNRS-INSU-LEFE, Aix-Marseille Université, Thermo Fisher Scientific and John Cantle Scientific.

More information will be available in early 2018. For any questions, please contact: Kazuyo Tachikawa (kazuyo@cerege.fr) or Laurence Vidal (vidal@cerege.fr).

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Workshop planning committee:

Robert Anderson – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA
Damien Cardinal  –  LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université, France
Martin Frank – GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
Chris Hayes – University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Gideon Henderson – University of Oxford, UK
Tristan Horner – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Catherine Jeandel – Observatoire Midi Pyrenees, France
Susan Little – Imperial College, UK
Marie-France Loutre – PAGES International Project Office, Switzerland
Thomas Marchitto – University of Colorado, USA
Elena Masferrer Dodas – GEOTRACES International Project Office, France
Katharina Pahnke – Max Planck Research Group – Marine Isotope Geochemistry, Germany
Kazuyo Tachikawa – CEREGE, France
Laurence Vidal – Aix-Marseille Université, France
Jimin Yu – Australian National University, Australia
Liping Zhou – Peking University, China