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REMINDER: Call for Papers: Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption Conference (Switzerland)
From: <renate.auchmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>REMINDER: Call for Papers: Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption Conference (Switzerland)
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"Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption"
International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society
7 - 11 April 2015, University of Bern, Switzerland
Abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2014
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Two hundred years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano in April
1815, an event that changed global climate, the University of Bern and
the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) organize the
international conference 'Volcanoes, Climate, and
Society'.
SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
The April 1815 eruption of Tambora changed global climate, it caused a
"Year Without a Summer" which affected societies, and it changed
science. Two hundred years later, we want to look back at this event,
and look forward. What is the state of knowledge on
the 1815 eruption and its aftermath? What has science learned from
the event, and what more can we learn from it?
In the conference, we will revisit the 1815 eruption from a
volcanologists perspective, we will approach the eruption from the point
of view of climate proxies, we will search its traces in historical
climate reconstructions and we will re-enact the event in
model simulations. The conference will also explore how our ancestors
managed the crisis that followed the eruption.
CALL FOR PAPERS, FORMAT AND SESSIONS
We encourage papers on topics relating to all aspects listed below:
* Volcanic eruptions, atmospheric processes, and aerosols: models and observations
* Volcanic eruptions recorded in paleo-environmental archives
* Historical climatology and documentary data
* Impacts and societal responses
* Arts and culture
We plan to have about 20 invited lectures covering the key themes listed
above. In addition, there will be ample time for contributed talks and
poster sessions.
More details can be found at
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 October 2014
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Hans Graf (U. Cambridge, UK), Alan Robock (Rutgers U. USA), Susan
Solomon (MIT, USA), Markus Rex (AWI, Potsdam, DE), Phil Jones (CRU, U.
East Anglia, UK), Jürg Luterbacher (U. Giessen, DE), Eduardo Zorita
(HZG, Geesthacht, DE), Claudia Timmreck (MPI Hamburg,
DE), Christian Pfister (U. Bern, CH), Gillen D‘Arcy Wood (U.
Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), John Thornes (U. Birmingham, UK)
More details are available on the conference website at
We are looking forward to seeing you in Bern!
Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Rohr, Martin Grosjean, Fortunat Joos, Willy Tinner, Thomas Peter
on behalf of the Organizing Committee
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