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Dr. Wil Burns, Associate Director

Master of Science, Energy Policy & Climate Program

Johns Hopkins University

1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20036

650.281.9126 (Mobile)

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*Subject:* Pre-Announcement: "Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption"
Conference - April 2015 (Switzerland)



PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT - SAVE THE DATE!



"Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption"

International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society

7 - 11 April 2015, University of Bern, Switzerland



Two hundred years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano in April 1815,
an event that changed global climate, the University of Bern and the
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) organize the
international conference 'Volcanoes, Climate, and Society'.



SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

The April 1815 eruption of Tambora changed global climate, it caused a
"Year Without a Summer" which affected societies, and it changed science.
Two hundred years later, we want to look back at this event, and look
forward. What is the state of knowledge on the 1815 eruption and its
aftermath? What has science learned from the event, and what more can we
learn from it?



In the conference, we will revisit the 1815 eruption from a volcanologists
perspective, we will approach the eruption from the point of view of
climate proxies, we will search its traces in historical climate
reconstructions and we will re-enact the event in model simulations. The
conference will also explore how our ancestors managed the crisis that
followed the eruption.



FORMAT AND SESSIONS

The conference will cover the following topics:

* Volcanic eruptions, atmospheric processes, and aerosols: models and
observations

* Volcanic eruptions recorded in paleo-environmental archives

* Historical climatology and documentary data

* Impacts and societal responses

* Arts and culture

We plan to have about 20 invited lectures covering the key themes listed
above. In addition, there will be ample time for contributed talks and
poster sessions.



CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Hans Graf (U. Cambridge, UK), Alan Robock (Rutgers U., USA), Susan Solomon
(MIT, USA), Markus Rex (AWI, Potsdam, DE), Tom Crowley (U. Edinburgh, UK),
Phil Jones (CRU, U. East Anglia, UK), Jürg Luterbacher (U. Giessen, DE),
Dennis Wheeler (Emeritus, UK), Eduardo Zorita (HZG, Geesthacht, DE),
Claudia Timmreck (MPI Hamburg, DE), Rudolf Brazdil (U. Brno, CZ), Matthias
Dörries (Univ. Strasbourg, FR), Gillen D'Arcy Wood (U. Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, USA), John Thornes (U. Birmingham, UK)



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Alternatively, you can send your data by email to
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As the Conference approaches, you will be informed about abstract,
registration, and program details.



More details are available on the conference website at

<http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/events/conferences/tambora/index_en.html><http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/events/conferences/tambora/index_en.html>



We are looking forward to seeing you in Bern!



Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Rohr, Martin Grosjean, Fortunat Joos, Willy
Tinner, Thomas Peter

on behalf of the Organizing Committee



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Contact:

Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

University of Bern

Zahringerstrasse 25, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland,

<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>
<http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/> <http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/>
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Dr. Wil Burns, Associate Director
Master of Science - Energy Policy & Climate Program
Johns Hopkins University
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Room 104J
Washington, DC  20036
202.663.5976 (Office phone)
650.281.9126 (Mobile)
[email protected]
http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/environmental/master-of-science-in-energy-policy-and-climate/index.html
SSRN site (selected publications): http://ssrn.com/author=240348


Skype ID: Wil.Burns

Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy Blog: http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org

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