Thursday September 20th, 2012
Morning: Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 09:15 Rixiang ZHU for Institute of Geology and Geophysics
09:15 – 09:30 CAS representative
09:30 – 09:45 Tongji University representative
09:45 – 10:00 Patrick NEDELLEC - CNRS representative in China, French Embassy in Beijing
10:00 – 10:15 Philippe ARNAUD - Service pour la Science et la Technologie, French Embassy in Beijing
10:15 – 10:30 Pierre-Yves CORDIER: CEA representative, Conseiller nucléaire, French Embassy in Beijing
10:30 – 11:00 break
11:00 – 11:20 LIA-MONOCL (Catherine KISSEL, Qingsong LIU)
11:20 – 11:40 CIRCEA cruise (Zhimin JIAN, Catherine KISSEL)
11:40 – 12:00 group photo
12:00 – 14:30 Official lunch
Afternoon: geochemical proxies for water properties
Chairman: Qingsong LIU
14:30 – 15:00 Zhimin JIAN: Paleo-ventilation of deep circulation in the South China Sea during the last glacial cycle.
15:00 – 15:30 Franck BASSINOT: Combining Mg/Ca and d18O measurements: application to the reconstruction of Indian Monsoon variability using sedimentary records from the Bay of Bengal.
15:30 – 16:00 Baoqi HUANG: Deep water circulation of the SCS recorded by benthic forams and their stable isotope since last glacial stage.
16:00 – 16:15 break
Chairman: Catherine KISSEL
16:15 – 16:45 Liping ZHOU: Preliminary results of the clumped isotope measurements of foraminifera from South China Sea.
16:45 – 17:15 Haiyan JIN/Haowen DANG: Late Quaternary changes of upper water structure in the tropical western Pacific.
18:00 group dinner
Friday Sept. 21th, 2012
Morning: Monsoon Models and sedimentary and geochemical proxies for monsoon and circulation
Chairman: Franck BASSINOT
09:00 – 09:30 Yongqiang YU: The East Asian Summer Monsoon at mid-Holocene: Results from PMIP3 simulations.
09:30 – 10:00 Catherine KISSEL: Past Changes in the paleoenvironment of the southern part of the South China Sea (input from magnetic properties): orbital time scale.
10:00 – 10:30 Carlo LAJ: Past Changes in the paleoenvironment of the Southern part of the China Sea during the last glacial period and link to high latitudes climatic variability (potential of magnetic-assisted stratigraphy): millenial time scale.
10:30 – 10:45 break
Chairman: Zhimin JIAN
10:45 – 11:15 Christophe COLIN/WU Qiong WU/ Liu Zhifei LIU: Neodymium isotopic composition of seawater and sediments from the South China Sea and West Pacific: implications for present and past hydrological changes.
11:15 – 11:45 Qingsong LIU: Interhemispheric climate coupling: evidence from loess and marine sediments.
11:45 – 12:15 Zhifei LIU:Clay minerals as proxies of the late Quaternary East Asian monsoon evolution in the South China Sea revisited.
12:15 – 14:00 lunch
Afternoon: discussions
14:00 – 17:00 Science, organization and actions within the LIA