TECHNICAL PROGRAM OF THE AASP ANNUAL MEETING - OTTAWA

Below is the technical program of the AASP Annual Meeting which will take place at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa from Tuesday October 10th through Saturday, October 14th. Abstracts of oral and poster presentations can be found here.

08:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon QUATERNARY PALYNOLOGY SESSION. Convenor: Pierre Richard.

• 08:30 a.m. Announcements/Welcome: David Jarzen

• 08:40 a.m. - 09:20 a.m. GLEN M. MacDONALD - KEYNOTE SPEAKER Challenges and Opportunities in Quaternary Palynology: Examples from the Canadian Boreal Forest.
• 09:20 a.m. - 09:40 a.m. KATRINA MOSER, GLEN M. MacDONALD, BARBARA C.S. HANSEN, SUSAN CLAYDEN & LES C. CWYNAR. Stomate Analysis: An Improved Technique to Delineate Past Shifts in Treeline Position.
• 09:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. K. GAJEWSKI, M. GARNEAU & J.C. BOURGEOIS. Postglacial Vegetation History of the Canadian High Arctic.

• 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break.

• 10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. GAIL L. CHMURA & ALEXEI SMIRNOV. Seasonal Variation in the Pollen Load of the Atchafalaya River, USA.
• 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. FRANCINE M.G. McCARTHY & PETA J. MUDIE. Palynomorphs as Tracers of Turbidites and Ice Rafting: Labrador Sea, Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iberia Abyssal Plain.
• 11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. OWEN K. DAVIS. Pre-Columbian Human Impact on the Wetlands of the Southwestern U.S.A.
• 11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. THANE W. ANDERSON. Historical Lake Sediment, Pollen and Diatom Records Indicative of Land-use Changes in the Oak Ridges Moraine, Southern Ontario, Canada.
• 11:40 a.m. - 12:00 noon. M. CRISTINA PENALBA. Human Influence in the Holocene Vegetation of Northern Spain from Pollen Analysis.

• 12:00 noon - 1:20 p.m. Lunch.

1:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. GENERAL SESSION. Convenor: Douglas J. Nichols

• 1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. E.B. KOPPELHUS, P.J. CURRIE & A. FAZAL MUHAMMAD. Can a Palynological Analysis be Used to Determine if Stomach Contents of a Hadrosaur from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada, is the Dinosaur's Last Meal or Not?
• 1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. GRETCHEN D. JONES & JAMES R. COPPEDGE. Pollen Contamination of Citrus Nectar.
• 2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. VAUGHN BRYANT, JR., JOHN G. JONES & GRETCHEN D. JONES. Pollen Analysis of United States Honey Samples.
• 2:20 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. GRETCHEN D.JONES & JAMES R. COPPEDGE. Dinner With the Boll Weevils.
• 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. FLORIN NEUMANN & GEOFFREY NORRIS. Copepod Remains in Palynological Preparations From DSDP Site 502 (Leg 68, Colombia Basin, Western Caribbean Sea).

• 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Refreshment Break.

• 3:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. DOUGLAS J. NICHOLS. The Role of Palynology in Paleoecological Analyses of Tertiary Coals.
• 3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. DOUGLAS J. NICHOLS & F.H. WINGATE. Palynology of Paleogene Lacustrine Shale at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado.
• 4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. ROSEMARY A. ASKIN. Eocene Palynofloras, Biogeography and Climates of Seymour Island, Antarctica.
• 4:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. FLORIN NEUMANN & GEOFFREY NORRIS. A Late Campanian Microflora from the Kanguk Formation on Banks Island, NWT, Canada.

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Ice Breaker - Salon (3rd Floor) of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Metcalfe & McLeod Streets.

08:30 a.m. Poster Displays All-Day Viewing

08:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon. DINOFLAGELLATES AND ACRITARCHS OF MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC OCEANS AND MARGINAL SEAS SESSION. Co-Convenors: Geoffrey Norris & Martin J. Head

• 08:40 a.m. - 09:00 a.m. EVA B. KOPPELHUS & CARINA F. HANSEN. Palynostratigraphy of the Sortehat Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland.
• 09:00 a.m. - 09:20 a.m. R.P.W. STANCLIFFE & B.A. CHEADLE. Palynological and Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Bitumen-Saturated Clearwater Formation (Early Albian, Early Cretaceous) at Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada
• 09:20 a.m. - 09:40 a.m. HENRIK NOHR-HANSEN. Upper Cretacaeous Dinoflagellate Cyst Stratigraphy, Onshore West Greenland.
• 09:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. JOHN V. FIRTH. An Uppermost Campanian to Lower Maastrichtian Organic-Walled Phytoplankton Assemblage from the Central Arctic Ocean, Core FL-533, Alpha Ridge.

• 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break

• 10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. JAVIER HELENES. Upper Cretaceous Dinoflagellates and Chronostratigraphy in the Subsurface of Southwestern Venezuela.
• 10:40 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. GUNN MANGERUD & I.L. KRISTIANSEN. The Eocene Offshore Mid-Norway, Dinocyst stratigraphy and Geochronology.
• 11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. THOMAS D. DEMCHUK & SARAH P. DAMASSA. Needles in the Haystacks: the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania.
• 11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. LAURENT de VERTEUIL & GEOFFREY NORRIS. The Role of Dinoflagellate Cyst Stratigraphy and Palynofacies in Oligocene-Miocene Sequence Analysis, ODP New Jersey Transect.

• 12:00 noon - 1:20 p.m. Lunch.

1:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. QUATERNARY PALYNOLOGY SESSION (continued). Convenor: Pierre Richard.

• 1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. ROLF W. MATHEWES. The Little Ice Age in Northwestern British Columbia: Evidence from Ponds, Peats and Pollen.
• 1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. JOCK McANDREWS. Pollen Analysis on Grenada, West Indies.
• 2:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. JULIAN M. SZEICZ. Recent Vegetation Dynamics in the Coastal Rainforests of Southern Chile.
• 2:20 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. IAN D. CAMPBELL, S.C. ZOLTAI & D.D. DELORME. Palynology of the St. Laurent Ferry Fen in the Grassland Near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
• 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. JANICE FULLER. The Ecological Impact of the Mid-Holocene Tsuga canadensis decline in Southern Ontario, Canada.

• 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Refreshment Break

• 3:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. YU ZICHENG. Late Quaternary Paleoecology of Thuja and Juniperus (Cupressaceae) at Crawford Lake, Ontario: pollen, stomata and macrofossils.
• 3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ALWYNNE B. BEAUDOIN & MEL A. REASONER. An Investigation of Pollen Focussing and Differential Pollen Deposition in Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
• 4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. PIERRE RICHARD & PIERRE GANGLOFF. Pollen Influx from Lake Dolbeau, McGerrigle Mountains, Gaspe Pininsula, Quebec: a proxy for thermal climate and for solar activity?
• 4:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. JOYCE MACPHERSON. Late deglaciation by downwasting ice, northeast Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada: an application of the early post-glacial pollen record.

6:00 p.m. CAP Executive Meeting, Palladian Room

08:30 a.m. Poster Displays (Viewing until 3 p.m.)

08:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. DINOFLAGELLATES AND ACRITARCHS OF MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC OCEANS AND MARGINAL SEAS SESSION (continued). Co-Convenors: Martin J. Head & Geoffrey Norris.

• 08:40 a.m. - 09:00 a.m. LUCY E. EDWARDS. Oligocene and Miocene Dinocysts from Central and Southern Florida.
• 09:00 a.m. - 09:20 a.m. CHRIS N. DENISON. Dinoflagellate Cysts from the Kirmaky Suite (Late Miocene-Pliocene), Apsheron Peninsula, Azerbaijan.
• 09:20 a.m. - 09:40 a.m. THOMAS D. DEMCHUK & JEFFREY A. STEIN. Dinoflagellate Cysts as a New Basis for Correlation in the Brackish Basins of the Eastern Paratethys Region.
• 09:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. MARTIN J. HEAD & GEOFFREY NORRIS. Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene Dinoflagellates and Acritarchs of the North Atlantic: Taxonomy, Magnetobiostratigraphy, and Paleoclimatology.

• 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. REED WICANDER. Report to the Membership on Affiliation of AASP with Other Organizations

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Group Photo (Terrace off Banquet Room). Photograph taken by our esteemed Messrs. Bryant, Jr., and Clarke.

12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. AASP Business Luncheon, Banquet Room.

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. GENERAL SESSION. Convenor: Rosemary Askin

• 2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. PAUL K. STROTHER. Non-Marine Algal Cysts From Lower Paleozoic Paralic Rocks.
• 2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. CURTIS R. KLUG. Miospores and Conodonts from the Devonian Strata of the Western Part of the Michigan Basin.
• 3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. FRANCISCA E. OBOH, OSCAR YEPES & ODP LEG 159 SCIENTIFIC PARTY. Palynofacies Signatures of Litho-Stratigraphic Units at Site 959, ODP Leg 159 (Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin).
• 3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. FREDRICK J. RICH. Palynology and Depositional History of Pleistocene Sediments from Ulmers Pond, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
• 3:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. JOHN G. JONES, VAUGHN M. BRYANT, JR., & ERI WEINSTEIN. Pollen Studies Recovered from Persian Period (6-4th Centuries B.C.) Amphoras in a Shipwreck at Tantura Lagoon, Israel.
• 4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. BINDRA THUSU. Implication of the Discovery of Reworked and In situ Late Paleozoic and Triassic Palynomorphs on the Evolution of Sirt Basin, Libya

6:00 p.m. AASP Board of Directors Meeting, Palladian Room.

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