Breakfast is included in your registration.

Informing Water Resource Management and Constraining Climate Model Projections

Coffee is included in your registration.

Many developments over the past decade have led to the shift from using paper air photos, stereoscopy and topographic maps to high-resolution aerial imagery and digital elevation models when producing Quaternary geological maps. The aim of this session is to encourage discussions around methods, software, types of data being used to create maps, and how final maps are presented (e.g. paper, digital GIS files, or as online interactive maps). Discussions will focus on the entire mapping process from field data collection to production of the final maps. Additional components of this session will be around best practices, tips and tricks, digital data types, how data is utilized, and its limitations.

Reconstructions of Holocene hydroclimate have been applied to an expanding range of scientific and practical problems as the temporal resolution and spatial density of proxy records have improved. This special session will highlight advances in methodology and applications in the fields of paleoclimatology and paleohydrology, and aims to facilitate information and knowledge sharing. We welcome contributions on topics such as: · Advances in paleoclimatic and paleohydrology research · New methods and tools of data collection and analysis · Paleo perspectives on drought and excess surface water · Using reconstructions of regional hydroclimate to constrain model simulations of future climate and hydrology · Multi-proxy and high-resolution paleo research · Informing water resource management and climate change adaptation planning

Lunch is included in your registration.

This is a unique opportunity to see the fossil collection and paleontologists in action at the RSM. Note that the time frame for this is tight. We will be providing bagged lunches for attendees. Bus will depart as close to 12:00 PM as possible, and will depart the RSM as close to 1:15 PM as possible, so that no sessions talks are missed.

As modern ice sheets and glaciers continue to respond to global climate change, contributing more than any other source to average mean sea level rise and causing destructive and life-threatening glacial lake outburst floods in mountainous regions, the importance of understanding glacial hydrology and how it evolves is needed to navigate these growing hazards. Paleo ice sheets left behind copious amounts of evidence of the impact of meltwater on previously glaciated landscapes in the form of a wide variety of landforms and deposits, which give insights into glacial hydrology that is currently inaccessible in modern ice sheets. These include but are not limited to: outwash plains, ice contact fans, proglacial lakes, eskers, kames and kettles, tunnel channels, meltwater corridors, murtoos, and glacial curvilineations (arguably). Studying these landforms and deposits can give valuable insight into how paleo ice sheets underwent deglaciation, and how modern ice sheets may operate in the future. We encourage contributions on any aspect of glacier paleohydrology including field-based data collection, morphology and remote mapping, and/or modelling to advance understanding of the formation of meltwater landforms and deposits and their implications for glacial dynamics.

Bus will arrive around 3:00 p.m. for departure by 3:30 p.m. Snacks and water will be provided. We will spend two hours on site and should return by 7:00 p.m.