Theme: Weichselian and Holocene climate changes
Time: 10-12 th of May 2007
Place: Palmse, Estonia
Programme:
May 10:
Bus to Palmse from Tallinn centre at 19.00
Icebreaker at 21.00
May 11:
Breakfast 08-09.00
09.00 – Opening (Welcome by Heikki S. and Anne B. presentation of NEPAL members (all), practical information Siim V.)
09.15 – 10.00 Keynote – A. Ganopolski: “Simulation of Holocene climate variability with the models of intermediate complexity”
10.00 – 10.25 K.F. Helmens: Present-day temperatures at Sokli (northern Finland) during MIS 3 recorded by high-resolution multi-proxy analysis and climate modeling
10.25 – 10.50 M. Väliranta: Palaeobotanical and lithological review of a 7-m-thick sediment sequence, dated to MIS 5d-c, from Sokli, southern Finnish Lapland – preliminary results and interpretation
10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 – 11.35 H.J.B. Birks: : Holocene forest decline on the Tibetan Plateau – climate or human activity?
11.35 – 12.00 A. Bjune: Temperature and precipitation changes around the 8200 cal yr BP event in western and northern Norway – pollen evidence
12.00 – 12.25 A. Heinsalu: Did diatoms respond to the possible cooling event around 8000 years ago: high-resolution case studies of annually laminated sediments in southern Estonia and central southern Finland
12.25 – 12.50 M. Stančikaitė: Early Holocene environment variations in the NE Lithuania: a pilot study
12.50 - 14.00 Dinner
14.00-14.45 Keynote G.M. MacDonald: “The Arctic System and Global Climate Warming - A
Circumpolar Paleoenvironmental Perspective.”
14.45-15.10 U. Kokfelt: Late Holocene Peatland and Lake Responses to Climate Change and
Permafrost Conditions: Results from Multi-proxy Studies in Subarctic Sweden
15.10-15.35 S. Holzkämper: Holocene climate variability in northwestern Russia – activities within the CARBO-North project.
15.35-16.00 J. Rinne: title to be added

16.00-17.00 coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 poster session
18.30 transport to Altja – conference dinner
May 12:
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
9.00 - 9.45 Keynote – B. Risebrobakken: “Holocene climate variability – A North Atlantic perspective”
9.45 – 10.10 D. Hammarlund: Holocene hydroclimate dynamics in northern Fennoscandia inferred from cellulose  18 O records from lake sediments in northernmost Sweden and Finland.
10.10 – 10.35 H.S. Sundqvist: Speleothems from northwestern Sweden as recorder of environmental change during the Holocene
10.35 – 11.00 L. Arppe: Oxygen isotope palaeoclimatology of the woolly mammoth in Sweden
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 – 12.05 A. Nesje: Holocene glacial fluctuations in Norway
12.05 – 12.30 M. Kotilainen: Holocene dune stratigraphy in Lapland
12.30 -12.55 R. de Jong: Humidity and storminess reconstructions from south-west Sweden a regional record of climate during the past 6500 years?
12.55 -14 Lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Keynote – R.J. Telford: “Improving transfer functions for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in spatially structured environments”
14.45 – 15.10 E. Niinemets: Comparison of tree pollen distribution in three lakes' sediments from Haanja Heights
15.10 – 15.35 M. Nyman: The Holocene climate effects on chironomids - examples of possible indirect mechanisms
15.35 – 16.00 J. Weckström: Diatom inferred summer temperatures of the past eight centuries in northern Fennoscandia
16. 00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 Plenum discussion and summary discussion and information about Next workshop – were and when; summer school 2007 – were and when
17.30 bus transport to Tallinn
POSTERS:
Tiiu Alliksaar: A switch from a clear macrophyte dominated state to a turbid phytoplanktonprevailing aquatic ecosystem as shown by sedimentary evidence from a shallow hard-water lake.
Leeli Amon: Estonian Late-Glacial environment: the striking status and new hopes.

Marilen Fernandez: A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Middle Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados during the first human settlement
Catherine Jessen: Variability and seasonality of North Atlantic climate during the early Holocene: evidence from Faroe Island lake sediments.
Christina Jonsson: A biogenic silica δ 18 O record from lake sediment in northern Fennoscandia
Sanna Korkonen: Searching for a Mid-Holocene warm period Cyclotella increase in subarctic
Lake Saanajärvi.
Seija Kultti Chydorid ephippia – a promising tool for climate reconstruction
Helen Luup: Diatoms, climate and lake level fluctuations during 100 years in Lake Võrtsjärv,
Estonia
Vivika Meltsov: Pollen productivity estimates of major wind-pollinating taxa in the boreonemoral forest zone
Ieva Paunksnyte: The pecularities of diatom distribution in surface sediments in northern part of the Curonian lagoon.
Jaana Salujõe: Cladocera from the sediments of Lake Rõuge Tõugjärv
Ilmar Tõnno: Ecosystem changes in large shallow Lake Võrtsjärv (Estonia) evidence from sediment photosynthetic pigments.
Ingmar Unkel: Isla de los Estados (Patagonia) - island at the end of the world. Preliminary palaeoclimate data over the last 15 ka based on 14 C and XRF analyses
Stefan Wastegård: Towards a Holocene tephrochronology for Scandinavia and adjacent areas