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The Agassiz Symposium is the annual research meeting of the Climate Change Institute. Faculty, staff and students contribute abstracts covering the range of topics studied in the Institute, including archeology and anthropology, paleoecology, glacial geology, marine geology, climatology and glaciology. In addition to oral presentations, there were several research posters on display throughout the meeting.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Michael E. Moseley from the University of Florida. His speech was titled "El Niño-induced floods in the Andean desert."Michael Moseley is currently a Professor at the University of Florida in theDepartment of Anthropology and his current research interests are settlementand subsistence patterns; early agricultural economies; preindustrial urbanism;pre-Hispanic architecture; pre-Hispanic irrigation and water management technology;Colonial Period and Spanish contact settlements; GIS/Remote Sensing; Quaternarygeomorphology, climatology and tectonics.

PDF of Abstracts