13thInternational Paleolimnology Symposium (IPS2015) 
(Second Circulation)
Dear colleagues
We are happy to announce that the conference's official website for 13th International Paleolimnology Symposium (IPS2015, August 4-7, 2015 in Lanzhou, China) has been launched. The address is ips2015.cn, please pass on this information to your colleagues and students.
Over the past several months, the local organizers and all Chinese paleolimnologists have been working hard to organizing the symposium. To date, we have set up 20 special sessions as proposed by domestic and international scientists, covering all of the aspects in paleolimnological research. We also approved two pre-symposium workshops to be held onAugust 3 2015, one for early career scientists, another for aquatic transitions - a past global changes (PAGES) working group. In addition, the IPS2015 organizing committee will provide up to 20 grants for students and young scientists, which will cover their registration fees.
Registration payments, abstract submissions, and hotel reservation will be made online, please visit our website ips2015.cn for further details such as prices and deadlines. You can also find all other information there, including special sessions, workshops, grants, field excursions, accommodations, travel information, etc.
Here we specially remind you to pay attention to the SESSIONS and the IMPORTANT DATES.
Special Sessions for IPS2015:
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Session |
Title |
Conveners |
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1 |
General Paleolimnology (Environmental Change, Recovery) |
Catherine Dalton & Yan Zhao |
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2 |
Lake Sediments as Recorders of Human-Environment Interactions |
Aubrey Hillman & Mark Abbott |
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3 |
Climate and Environmental Changes in Arid Central Asia and its Adjacent Area: Quaternary Lake Records and Current Trends |
Fahu Chen, Steffen Mischke, Chengjun Zhang & Cheng Zhao |
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4 |
Progress and New Advances from Lake Drilling for Paleoclimate Records |
Steve M. Colman |
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5 |
Asian Monsoon Evolution and Dynamics as Recorded from Lake Sediments |
Ji Shen & Jule Xiao |
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6 |
From Lakes to Peatlands: Peat-based Proxies for Environmental Reconstructions |
Zicheng Yu |
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7 |
Late Quaternary Climate-Critical Zone Processes: Lacustrine Sediment Geochemical Proxies |
Selvaraj Kandasamy |
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8 |
New Advances in Applied Stable Isotopes |
Virginia Panizzo & JonathanHolmes |
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9 |
Stable Isotopes in Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions: Carbon Cycling, Nutrients, and Food Webs |
Maarten van Hardenbroek |
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10 |
Recent Advances of Biomarkers and their Applications in Paleolimnology |
Zhonghui Liu & Juzhi Hou |
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11 |
Paleolimnological Perspective on Climatic and Environmental Changes from Tibetan and Alpine Lakes |
Liping Zhu, Antje Schwalb, & Gerhard Daut |
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12 |
Late Quaternary Chronology of Luminescence and radiocarbon dating for lacustrine sediments |
Zhongping Lai, David Madsen, & Jan-Pieter Buylaert |
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13 |
Biological Proxy Evidence of Ecological and Environmental Changes, and Quantitative Reconstruction Methods (Including Pollen, Diatom, Chironomids, Ostracods, Cladocera, etc.) |
Xiangdong Yang, Jiawu Zhang , & Xuhui Dong |
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14 |
Putting the Ecology into Paleoecology: Going Beyond Transfer Functions |
Carl Sayer & Helen Bennion |
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15 |
Integrating Lake Sediment and Other Records as a Foundation for Understanding the Functioning of Regional Social-Ecological Systems |
John A. Dearing & Peter Gell |
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16 |
Land-Sea-Human Interactions as Inferred from Historical Documents, Models, and Proxy Records |
Karl Ljung, Anne B. Nielsen, Wenxin Ning, Zhaohui Zhang, & Helena Filipsson |
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17 |
Priority Issues in Paleolimnology: Ecosystem Processes & Biogeochemical Cycling |
Anson W. Mackay, Ambroise Baker, & Alistair Seddon |
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18 |
Climatic, Environmental, and Ecological Changes in Polar and High-latitude Regions |
John Smol |
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19 |
Global Warming and Its Impact Recorded by High-resolution Paleolimnology |
Patrick Rioual, & Guoqiang Chu |
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20 |
Paleolimnology and Lake Ecology in Southeastern Asia |
Hucai Zhang, Guangjie Chen, Caiming Shen, & Bernd Wuennemann |
Important Dates:
Abstract submission:
November 20 2014: start for abstract submission
June 30 2015: deadline for abstract submission
Registration fee:
November 20 2014: start for accepting registration fee
April 30 2015: deadline for early bird registration
June 30 2015: deadline for regular registration
Accommodation:
November 20 2014: start for hotel reservation
June 30 2015: deadline for hotel reservation
Grant Application
March 31 2015: deadline for grant application
If you have any other questions and suggestions, or if you need any help, please feel free to email:
fhchen-ips2015@lzu.edu.cn.
Prof. Cheng Zhao and Prof. Jiawu Zhang, Secretary General of IPS2015
