AGENDA

Organizers : Zhimin JIAN, Catherine KISSEL and Zhifei LIU

Thursday November 21st 2013

8:30-8:35 Welcome and Introduction

8:35-9:05 Catherine Kissel and Carlo Laj: Magnetic properties of the sediments from rivers feeding the South China Sea: their connection to paleoceanographic records.

9:05-9:35 Zhifei Liu: Deep-water sediment transport processes in the northeastern South China Sea: Moored and shipboard-based observations.

9:35-10:05 Christophe Colin: εNd from seawater and sediments of the South China Sea: implications for hydrology of the Pacific Ocean during the last 25 kyr.

10:05-10:35 Discussion

10:35-10:55 Break

10:55-11:15 Franck Bassinot: The objectives, field operations and on-going studies of the MONOPOL cruise.

11:15-11:45 Mahyar Mohtadi: Surface and thermocline temperature variability at the exit passages of the Indonesian Throughflow since the last glacial period.

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Haowen Dang and Zhimin Jian: Late Quaternary changes of the upper water structure in the western tropical Pacific.

14:00-14:30 Stephan Steinke: South China Sea RV SONNE cruise INVERS-MeBo: First results and perspectives.

14:30-15:00 Jun Tian: Coherent variations of the obliquity components in global ice volume and ocean carbon reservoir over the past 5 Ma.

15:00-15:30 Discussion

15:30-15:50 Break

15:50-16:10 Pascale Braconnot: Relative impact of fresh water fluxes in the North Atlantic on Asian monsoon in different climate contexts.

16:10-16:40 Yongqiang Yu: Paleoclimate modeling experiments with LASG coupled climate model.

16:40-17:10 Discussion on models and data/models integration.

17:10-17:30 Pinxian Wang: “South China Sea Deep” program: New progress.

18:00-19:00 Dinner

Friday November 22nd, 2013 : CIRCEA Post cruise meeting and LIA discussion

8:30-9:00 Liping Zhou: Initial results of radiocarbon measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon in seawater from northern South China Sea.

9:00-9:30 Zhimin Jian and Sui Wan: Glacial-interglacial changes of the deep circulation in the South China Sea and their implications.

9:30-9:50 Discussion

9:50-10:10 Break

10:10-10:25 Xie Xin: Preliminary results of element contents in the CIRCEA cores by high resolution XRF scanning.

10:25-10:40 Chuanlian Liu and Hongrui Zhang: Preliminary results of coccolith analysis of MD12-3428 in the northern South China Sea.

10:40-10:55 Li Li: Paleoclimate change in the late Quaternary implicated by organic proxy

10:55-11:10 Xiangtong Huang: The SCS circulation variations during the late Quaternary tracked by lithogenous components.

11:10-11:25 Tingting Wang: Preliminary results of foraminiferal isotopes and trace elements from MD cores in the South China Sea.

11:25-11:40 Liang Dong: Primary geochemistry analysis of MD12-3428: Insights into the impact of IPL-GDGTs degradation on TEX86.

11:40-11:55 Jingjing Liu: Reconstructing the vegetation and precipitation changes in the south-east Asia since the LGM— an attempt by using lipid n-alkanes δ13C and δD of the marine sediments in the northern South China Sea.

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:15 Xiajing Li: Time series contribution of clay minerals to the northeastern South China Sea since the last glaciation: implications for the evolution of deep-water currents.

14:15-14:30 Quan Chen: Quantitative calibration of XRF core-scanner major elements: Implications for high-resolution paleoenvironmental study in the South China Sea.

14:30-14:45 Shaohua Zhao: Late Quaternary accumulation rates of terrigenous and biogenic components in the northern South China Sea.

14:45-15:10 Break

15:10-17:00 Panel discussion about future activities and working plan within the LIA-MONOCL and of the CIRCEA post-cruise research.

18:00-19:00 Dinner