Antarctica: keystone in a changing world

• Antarctic Climate Evolution: Global Linkages from Records in Ice cores, Geological cores, Outcrops, and Models
• GeoCryoDynamics: Feedbacks and Coupling between the Geosphere, Cryosphere and Climate
• Antarctica in the Global Geodynamic System
• Antarctic Earth Science in the International Polar Year
• Antarctica's Impact on Global Biosphere Evolution
• New Frontiers in Technologies and Polar Databases
• General Antarctic Earth Science

Keynote Presentations:

• Antarctic Earth System Science in the International Polar Year 2007-2008
• Antarctic Insights into the Global Climate from Deep Ice Cores
• 100 million years of Antarctic climate evolution: evidence from fossil plants
• Antarctica's continent-ocean boundaries - consequences for tectonic reconstructions
• Four Billion Years of Change: Earth's Precambrian Glacial Record
• The significance of Antarctica for studies of global geodynamics
• A view of Cenozoic Antarctic glaciation from sea-level and deep-sea isotope changes
• Tectonic development of the West Antarctic rift system: Perspectives from the Pacific margin and eastern Ross Sea
• Landscape evolution of Antarctica
• Antarctica and Global Paleogeography: From Rodinia, through Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the opening of gateways and the birth of the Southern Ocean

Field Excursions

• Colorado Plateau
• Rio Grande Rift
• Tierra del Fuego

Short Courses:

• Geoscience Modeling for Novices (Leader: Robert DeConto; University of Massachusetts)

Workshops:

• Antarctic Seismic Data Library System (SDLS)-SCAR: 8/26 0845-1245; Alan Cooper
• ANTPAS; Status of Antarctic Permafrost & Soils Database Compilation & Mapping: 8/26 all day; James Bockheim
• Geodetic & Geophysical Observatories: Problems & Progress: 8/26 1300-1700; Larry Hothem
• Marine Proxies for Antarctic Ice Volume: Continental Shelf Sequence Stratigraphy and ?18O Records from High and Low Latitudes: 8/26 1300-1700; Stephen Pekar
• Towards ADMAP 2: 8/27 1930-2230; 8/30 1215-1415; Marta Ghidella
• Antarctic Scientific Drilling: 9/1 all day; Frank Rack
• Circum-Antarctic Paleobathymetry and Stratigraphy (CAPS): 9/1 all day; Fred Davey
• IBCSO; International Bathymetric Chart of the southern Ocean: 9/1 0800-1200; Norbert Ott
• Geoscience Research on Antarctic Subglacial Environments; all day 9/1; Leader: Slawek Tulaczyk

Business meetings & other events

• APECS; Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Roundtable Discussion: 8/27 1930-2100; Jenny Baeseman
• ANDRILL Science Committee: 8/27 1930-2230; Frank Rack
• ANDRILL McMurdo Sound Science (M-ASIC): 8/28 1930-2230; Frank Rack
• AGAP (Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province (IPY Project #67)) business meeting; 8/28 1930-2130; Detlef Damaske
• IPY Plates & Gates business meeting: 8/28 1930-2130; Karsten Gohl
• Women in Antarctica social: 8/28 1930-2130; Jane Francis
• ACE Committee business meeting: 1930-2100 PM TBA