Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 310CF

Presiding:

Kenneth D. Adams , David M. Miller and Edward R. Cook

8:00 AM

Drought during Medieval Times In North America: Results from An Expanded High-Resolution Grid of PDSI Reconstructions from Tree Rings

Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Richard R. Heim Jr, National Climatic Data Center; Russell S. Vose, National Climatic Data Center; Jay H. Lawrimore, National Climatic Data Center

8:20 AM

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How the Rate of Volcanism Initiated the Medieval Warm Period and Controlled Its Periods of Drought

Peter L. Ward, Teton Tectonics

8:35 AM

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The Tangled Web � Records of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (A.D. 900-1350) from Northern San Francisco Bay Marshes

Scott W. Starratt, U.S. Geological Survey

8:50 AM

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Increasing Evidence for the Medieval Drought-Deluge-Drought Sequence in the Western U.S

Scott Stine, California State University

9:05 AM

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Lake-Level Fluctuations in the Western Great Basin during the Medieval Climate Anomaly: Episodes of Both Drier and Wetter Periods Than Modern

Kenneth D. Adams, Desert Research Institute

9:20 AM

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Medieval Climate In the Mojave Desert Suggests Regional Lake Rise Between Extended Droughts

David M. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey; Lewis A. Owen, University of Cincinnati; Shannon A. Mahan, US Geol Survey

9:35 AM

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A Millennial Scale Tree-Ring Precipitation Reconstruction for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah

Troy A. Knight, University of Arizona; David M. Meko, University of Arizona; Christopher A. Baisan, University of Arizona

9:50 AM

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Medieval-Period Droughts, Fires, Floods and Geomorphic Change In Interior Western USA Mountains

Grant Meyer, Univ of New Mexico; Jennifer L. Pierce, Boise State University; Jedediah D. Frechette, Univ of New Mexico; Jennifer K. New, Univ of New Mexico; Nathan Nelson, Boise State University; Lyman Persico, Univ of New Mexico

10:05 AM

Break

10:20 AM

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Simultaneous Cool and Early Warm Season Drought Over the Colorado Plateau

David W. Stahle, University of Arkansas

10:35 AM

182-10

The Role of Prehistoric Climate Change in Anasazi Stage Transitions

Michael S. Berry, Bureau of Reclamation; Larry Benson

10:55 AM

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