6 Methane as a Climate Driver throughout Earth History

Monday, 8 August 2005
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  KEYNOTE: METHANE GREENHOUSES AND ANTI-GREENHOUSES ON THE EARLY EARTH
  James Kasting, Astrobiology Research Center, University Park, PA
  89141 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:10 PM
  METHANE HYDRATE DESTABILIZATION, DEGLACIATION AND OCEANIC ANOXIA, AND BIOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC
  Martin J. Kennedy, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Ganqing Jiang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Nicholas Christie-Blick, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
  88877 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:30 PM
  ASTRONOMICAL PACING OF METHANE HYDRATE DISSOCIATION DURING THE EARLY TOARCIAN
  David B. Kemp, The Open University, Milton Keynes, N/A and Angela L. Coe, The Open University, Milton Keynes, N/A and Anthony S. Cohen, The Open University, Milton Keynes, N/A and Lorenz Schwark, Universität zu Köln, Köln, N/A
  88706 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:10 PM
  THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SOURCES OF METHANE AND BIOGENIC VOCS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL FLUCTUATIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS
  Jed O. Kaplan, University of Bern, Bern, N/A and Gerd Folberth, Environment Canada, Victoria, BC and Didier Hauglustaine, CEA-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, N/A
  88753 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:30 PM
  METHANOGENESIS IN PARALIC CARBONATES - A POSSIBLE FEEDBACK TO GLOBAL WARMING
  Richard M. Mitterer, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
  88127 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:50 PM
  SENSITIVITY OF MARINE METHANE HYDRATES TO FUTURE OCEAN WARMING
  Jeremy G. Fyke, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
  88423 (THEME SESSIONS)