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Palaeovegetation Project

Mary Edwards	Southampton	Chair Global Palaeovegetation FTI Edwards/Finney/Abbott group creating a comprehensive database including 10-12 new sites

Sandy Harrison	Bristol	ACE Coordinator Experience of working with major databases such as PAIN2

Rachel Flecker	Bristol	Deputy ACE Coordinator

Nancy Bigelow	Alaska	Expertise in the paleovegetation of the North, especially Alaska, during the late Quaternary period (primarily the late glacial through the Holocene)

Mark Creighton	Bristol	Experience of working with major databases such as PAIN2

Jack Williams	Madison	Analytical and visualisation expertise. Interested in exploring vegetation patterns at 1000-year time steps (in step with PAIN 2), looking at challenges to biomization, such as introducing macrofossil information

Kathy Willis	Oxford	Macrofossil data from archaeological sites in Central and Eastern Europe.

Bob Thompson	USGS	Macrofossil data from North America, database experience

Linda Brubaker	Washington	New project (with Feng-Sheng) will contribute data sites from Alaska

Patricia Anderson	Washington	Knowledge of Russian data, working on macrofossil databases with Tolya Lozhkin

Steve Jackson	Wyoming	Macrofossil data from lake sediments in North America, use with pollen data, database experience

Feng Sheng Hu	Urbana	New project (with Linda Brubaker) will contribute data sites from Alaska

Macehead Project

Ralph Keeling	UCSD – SIO	Analysis of time-series of oxygen concentration measurements and of implied ocean fluxes and changes in thermohaline circulation. Use of flux measurements of oxygen and trace gases in atmospheric chemistry modelling

Tim Lueker	UCSD – SIO	As above

Sandy Harrison	Bristol	ACE Coordinator

Rachel Flecker	Bristol	Deputy ACE Coordinator

Simon O’Doherty	Bristol	Oxygen concentration measurements, Use of flux measurements of oxygen and trace gases in atmospheric chemistry modelling

Dudley Shallcross	Bristol	As above

Andy Watson	UEA	Analysis of time-series of oxygen concentration measurements and of implied ocean fluxes and changes in thermohaline circulation. Use of flux measurements of oxygen and trace gases in atmospheric chemistry modelling

Other potential participants: Don Wuebbles (Urbana), Ivar Isaksen (Oslo), Andreas Oschlies (Southampton), Robert Marsh (Southampton)

Global Snow Biogeochemistry

Paul Valdes	Bristol	Chair Global Snow Biogeochemistry FTI, Leader of BRIDGE Improving treatment of physical aspects of snowpack in model context

Don Wuebbles	UIUC	Chair Focus on Climate-Chemistry Interactions

Sandy Harrison	Bristol	ACE Coordinator Improving treatment of physical aspects of snowpack in model context

Rachel Flecker	Bristol	Deputy ACE Coordinator

Jonathan Bamber	Bristol	Improving treatment of physical aspects of snowpack in model context

Jemma Wadham	Bristol

Colin Prentice	Bristol	Leader of QUEST Improving treatment of physical aspects of snowpack in model context

Dudley Shallcross	Bristol	Synthesis of data from CHABLIS project

Eric Wolff	BAS	Synthesis of data from CHABLIS project

Tim Heaton	BGS	Expertise on isotope methods

Stephen Mobbs	Leeds	Parameterisation of snow transport

Andrea Jackson	Leeds	Synthesis of data from CHABLIS project

Dwayne Heard	Leeds	Measurements of OH and HO2 free radicals, water vapour, O3 and NO

Andy Hodson	Sheffield	Biological aspects of snow-ice

Johannes Oerlemans	Utrecht	Reflective properties of snow and ice, for use in satellite observations

Richard Essery	Aberystwyth	Snow-vegetation interactions in global models

Will also involve Hadley Centre (for ESM modelling)

Palaeohosing

Focus on Climate-Change Chemistry Interactions

Chair - Don Wuebbles, UIUC

Focus on Climates and Environments of Deeptime

Chair - Henk Brinkuis, Utrecht