Advanced Research Workshop (ARW)
"CLIMATE CHANGE AND COASTLINE MIGRATION"

Program

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Date: October 1-5, 2003

October 1, 2003 Arrival

October 2, 2003

Morning Session

8.00 Objectives of the NATO ARW. N. Panin, Romania, and V. Yanko-Hombach, Canada.

PANEL 1: LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE (last 20,000 yrs.) MIGRATION OF THE COASTAL LINE IN THE CIRCUMPONTIC REGION GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE

8.30 PLENARY: Flood hypothesis in the Black Sea: An overview. W. Ryan, USA, and G. Leericolais, France???

9.15 PLENARY: Climate change and coastline migration in the Circumpontic Region: Geological and palaeontological records. A. Tchepalyga, Russia, and V. Yanko-Hombach, Canada.

10.00 PLENARY: Neotectonic development of the Circumpontic region: An overview. Y. Yilmaz, Turkey

10.45 Questions and discussion

11.00 Coffee-break

11.15 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circumpontic Region. M. Georgiev, Bulgaria

12.00 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Romanian sector of the Circumpontic Region. N. Panin, Romania.

12.45 Questions and discussion

13.00 Ice Break Lunch

Afternoon Session

14.00 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circumpontic Region. Yu. Shuisky, Ukraine

14.30 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Russian sector of the Circumpontic Region. A. Glebov, Russia

15.00 Questions and discussion

15.15 Molluscan ecology/paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes. D. Basso, Italy.

15.45 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Turkish sector of the Circumpontic Region. O.Algan, M. Ergin, Turkey.

16.15 Questions and discussion

16.45 Coffee-break

17.15 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Greek sector (Aegean Sea) of the Circumpontic Region. N. Conispoliatis. Greece.

17.45 Climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Eastern Mediterranean sector of the Circumpontic Region. A. Issar, Israel.

18.15 Questions and discussion

18.30 Ad Hoc Committee: Splinter Group: Geology, Neotectonics, and Geophysics of the Circumpontic Region

October 3, 2003

PANEL 2. LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE MIGRATION OF THE COASTAL LINE IN THE CIRCUMPONTIC REGION: PALEONTOLOGICAL AND ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

Morning Session

8.00 PLENARY: Climate dynamics and migration of the coastline as factors for human development in the Circumpontic Region: An overview. M. Ozdogan, Turkey

8.45 PLENARY: Submerged settlements in the Circumpontic Region: An overview. H. Angelova, Bulgaria

9.30 Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circumpontic Region. M. Filipova-Marinova, Bulgaria

10.00 Questions and discussion

10.15 Coffee-break

10.30 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Romanian sector of the Circumpontic Region. P. Alexandrescu, Romania.

11.00 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circumpontic Region. V. Chabay, Ukraine

11.30 Questions and discussion

12.00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

13.00 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Russian sector of the Circumpontic Region. N. Leonova and A. Tchepalyga, Russia.

13.30 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Caucasian sector of the Circumpontic Region. V. Kuznetsov, Russia.

14.00 Questions and discussion

14.15 Coffee-break

14.30 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea level change and coastline migration in the Turkish sector (southern shelf of the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus and the Dardanells) of the Circumpontic Region. M. Osdogan and E. Meric, Turkey

15.00 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of the sea level change and coastline migration in the Greek (Aegean Sea) sector of the Circumpontic Region. Presenter to be determined, Greece

15.30 Questions and discussion

15.45 Coffee-break

16.00 Archaeological and palaeontological evidence of the sea level change and coastline migration in the Eastern Mediterranean sector of the Circumpontic Region. A. Ronen, Israel

16.30 Questions and discussion

16.45 Ad Hoc Committee: Splinter Group: Archaeology and Palaeontology

19.00 Workshop dinner

October 4, 2003

PANEL 3. MODELLING OF CLIMATE DYNAMICS, COASTLINE MIGRATION AND GEOMORPHOLOGY IN THE CIRCUMPONTIC REGION

Morning Session

8.00 PLENARY: Modelling of climate dynamics: An overview. A. Kislov, Russia

8.45 PLENARY: Modelling of coastline migration and geomorphology in the Circumpontic Region in respect to climate dynamics: An overview. A. Selivanov, Russia

9.30 Questions and discussion

9.45 Coffee-break

10.00 POSTERS

1. Paleogeographic and geochemical proxies in reconstruction of Pleistocene-Holocene climate dynamics. S. Spezzaferri, Switzerland.

2. Active tectonics in the modification of the Quaternary coastal lines in the Marmara region, western Pontics. H. Koral, Turkey.

3. High-resolution model of sedimentation on the north-western shelf of the Black Sea: Application for climate dynamics, coastline migration and sea level changes. E. Konikov, Ukraine.

10.30 Round Table: The ARW Project overview (Project co-ordinator V. Yanko-Hombach) and general discussion (all participants).

12.00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

15.00 Field trip to the deltaic sites.

October 5, 2003 Departure