12th Annual
May 6-7, 2004
The Agassiz Symposium is the annual research meeting of the Climate Change Institute. Faculty, research staff and students describe their current work in a series of presentations 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, several research posters were on display throughout the meeting.
The keynote speaker for the meeting was Dr Johan Kleman, who presented a talk on "Fractal frozen-bed patches the stabilizing bathmat suckers of mid-latitude ice sheets".
Johan Kleman is currently Professor of Remote Sensing in the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University. His research interests are in paleoglaciology, mega-scale glacial geomorphology, and spectral remote sensing of vegetation. An intergral part of his reseach program is fieldwork in remote locations, including the Swedish mountains, Arctic Canada, Quebec and Labrador, and the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. He and his students have had a long association with the Climate Change Institute, including several joint projects with Jim Fastook, George Denton, and Terry Hughes that are currently underway.
PDF of Abstracts