South Georgia Town Meeting Programme
Draft Programme
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Registration |
| 09:30 – 09:40 |
Welcome: Nick Owens BAS Director |
| 09:40 – 11:00 |
Presentations:
- Introduction — Martin Collins
- The history of South Georgia: exploitation, management and science — Bob Burton
- Geology — Mike Curtis
- Atmospheric Science — Stephen Mobbs
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| 11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Presentations:
- Oceanography around South Georgia: numerical simulations for interdisciplinary science — Emma Young
- Elephant Seals and Oceanography — Lars Boehm
- Terrestrial Ecology — Pete Convey
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| 12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Presentations:
- Wildlife Biology — Phil Trathan
- Benthic Ecology — Michelle Taylor
- Fisheries Science — Mark Belchier
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| 14:30 – 15:00 |
Tea |
| 15:00 – 16:00 |
Presentations:
- Fishery Management — David Agnew
- South Georgia GIS — David Herbert
- King Edward Point Research facilities, Accommodation and Logistics — Les Whittamore
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| 16:00 – 17:00 |
General Discussion |
| Posters |
- Royal Geographical Society funding opportunities — Catherine Souch
- Glacial retreat on South Georgia - Alison Cook
- Quaternary Science - Stephen Roberts:
- Climate dynamics of the sub-Antarctic: evidence from lake sediments on South Georgia.
Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University) and Ninis Rosqvist (University of Stockholm)
- Reconstructing past environmental change on South Georgia and Annenkov Island: new insights into Southern Hemisphere climate change over the last 10,000 years.
Steve Roberts, Dominic Hodgson, Elie Verleyen, Mieke Sterken, Wim Van Niewenhuyze and Wim Vyverman
- C19th and C20th glacier fluctuations and climate change on South Georgia: new evidence from lichenometric dating of moraines in small mountain cirques.
Steve Roberts, Dominic Hodgson, Sam Shelley, Jessica Royles, Huw Griffiths, Tara Deen, Michael Thorne
- Continuous Plankton Recorder Research in the Scotia Sea and its origins at South Georgia
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