08:00

Registration

09:00

Opening Ceremony

Chairs: D. Stammer, R. Nicholls, R. van de Wal

• Conference chairs (15 min)
• Earth Institute, Director (5 min)
• Columbia University (President, Provost) (5 min)
• G. Brasseur, WCRP (10 min)
• V. Ryabinin, IOC (10 min)
• H.E. Ambassador Peter Thomson, President of the 71st UN General Assembly (10 min)
• Prince Albert 2^nd (video message, 5 min)

• V. Masson-Delmotte: Sea level change in the 6th IPCC Assessment: a WGI perspective (presentation in .pdf)
  

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Opening Session

Chairs: D. Stammer, R. Nicholls, R. van de Wal
Rapporteur: K. Horsburgh

• J. Church: Achievements and challenges in understanding contemporary sea-level change (presentation in .pdf)
• M. Raymo: Paleo sea level (20mn)
• T. Payne: Why is it so difficult to make projections of the contribution of the ice sheets to future sea level rise? (20mn)
• C. Rosenzweig: Coastal cities: Preparing for sea level rise and storms (20mn)
• Discussion (10mn)

12:30

Lunch & press conference

14:00

Oral Session
Session 1 : Paleo sea level data and GIA modelling & Session 2: Millennial-scale ice sheet and sea level interactions

Chairs: N. Gomez, M. Tamisiea
Rapporteur: T. Payne

Invited talks:

• A. Dutton: New perspectives on “old” data: What the earth’s past tells us about future sea-level rise (presentation in .pdf)
• J. Mitrovica: Probing ancient ice Sheet stability using a sea level lens: A geodynamic perspective (20 min)

Contributed talks:

• T. Wilson: GIA in West Antarctica: Improved constraints from crustal motion measurements from the POLENET Antarctic GPS Network (15 min)
• B. Otto-Bliesner: Coupled long-term evolution of climate and the Greenland Ice Sheet during past warm Periods: A comparison for the last interglacial and the Late Pliocene (15 min)
• G. Grant: Mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3-3 ma) sea-level reconstructions from the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand (15 min)

15:30

Coffee break

16:00-17:30

Oral Session
Session 2: Millennial-scale ice sheet and sea level interactions & Session 3: Contemporary contributions from ice sheets and glaciers

Chairs:  T. Payne, J. Church
Rapporteurs: A. Slangen, M. Tamisiea

Invited talks:

• N. Gomez: Insights from coupled modeling on ice, sea level and solid Earth changes in Antarctica (20 min)
• F. Pattyn: Grounding line stability in Antarctic ice sheet models (presentation in .pdf)
• R. Hock: Sea-level contributions from glaciers (presentation in .pdf)

Contributed talks:

• P. Heimbach: A prediction approach for estimating sea level contributions of West Antarctic ice streams via transient model calibration (presentation in .pdf)
• G. Marques: Sensitivity of sub-ice-shelf melting to changes in wind, topographic features and surface heat fluxes (presentation in .pdf)

18:00

Icebreaker Reception
The Venue: The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library

Join us for a welcome reception in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library.  Built in 1895 by University President Seth Low, the Library is in the United States National Register of Historic Places and is both a National and New York City historic landmark.