Sunday, 31st July

• Ice breaker at Beringia Centre (7 PM)
• Yukon Science Institute lecture by Grant Heiken: "Gods and Monsters: Human Perceptions of Volcanoes"
  

Monday, 1st August

• Drive from Whitehorse to Dawson City (field-trip stops along the way)

Tuesday, 2nd August

• Talks
  

Wednesday, 3rd August

• Talks
• Yukon Science Institute lecture by Grant Heiken: "Avoidable Disasters: Volcanoes and Humans"

Thursday, 4th August

Friday, 5th August

• Field excursions: Klondike Goldfields

Saturday, 6th August

• Field excursions: Klondike Goldfields

Sunday, 7th August

• Field excursion: Dawson City to Whitehorse. END OF CONFERENCE
  

Monday, 8th August

• Participants leave for their various destinations

10.00 - 10.30         COFFEE BREAK

Beringia (cont.)      Chair: Jim Beget

Time	Speaker	Title
10.30 - 11.00	J. Westgate	Late Cenozoic distal tephrochronological studies in interior Alaska and Yukon: methods and results
11.00 - 11.30	G. Hare	Ice patch archaeology talk (exact title TBA)
11.30 - 11.55	K. Yoshikawa	Stable isotope characteristics of ice wedges near Fairbanks, Alaska
11.55 - 12.15	W. Lebarge	Gold in the Klondike (exact title TBA)

12.15 - 2.00           LUNCH

Session: INTIMATE      Chair: H. Machida

Time	Speaker	Title
2.00 - 2.25	B. Alloway	Onshore-offshore correlation of Pleistocene rhyolitic eruptions from New Zealand
2.25 - 2.50	D. Lowe	Sharpening the tools: improving tephra isochrons for New Zealand
2.50 - 3.15	T. Fukuoka	Tephrochronological dating of tephra in Antarctic ice using micro tephra particles – H15 ice core as a case study
3.15 - 3.40	S. Davies	Late Quaternary tephrochronology of the Greenland ice cores
3.40 - 4.05	C. Chen	Insights of the Toba tephra layer in the Indian Ocean from ODP Leg 121, site 758

4.05 - 4.30         COFFEE BREAK

4.30 - 5.30         Chair: D. Lowe          Discussion of papers given today

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Session 3: Characterization and weathered tephra      Chair: T. Fukuoka

Time	Speaker	Title
8.30 - 8.55	P. Shane	Compositional heterogeneity in tephra beds resulting from magma mingling: implications for tephrochronology
8.55 - 9.20	N. Pearce	Laser ablation ICP-MS and the analysis of single glass shards from tephra deposits: current status and future prospects
9.20 - 9.45	I. Tamura	Characteristics for identification of the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene marker tephras in central Japan
9.45 - 10.10	T. Suzuki	EDS analysis of titanomagnetites in weathered middle Pleistocene tephras and its application for the chronology of the fluvial surfaces in Kanto Plain, central Japan
10.10 - 10.35	W. Huff	Stratigraphic correlation of altered ashfalls

10.35 - 11.00         COFFEE BREAK

Session 4: Chronology, environmental      Chair: N. Pearce

Time	Speaker	Title
11.00 - 11.25	H. Moriwaki	New glass fission-track ages of Middle Pleistocene tephras, Yakushima Island, southern Japan
11.25 - 11.50	C. Buck	Bayesian tools for the refinement of radio-carbon-based chronologies
11.50 - 12.15	A. Church	Mercury concentrations of the Mazama ash: implications for the atmospheric mercury budget

12.15 - 2.00         LUNCH - Posters to be placed on walls at this time

Session 5: Cryptotephras and some applications      Chair: S. Davies

Time	Speaker	Title
2.00 - 2.25	S. Wastegård	New cryptotephras from the Last Glacial/Interglacial Transition in Scandinavia and the British Isles
2.25 - 2.50	J. Schokker	Eemian distal tephra layers in The Netherlands and their importance for improving the chronology of regional geological models
2.50 - 3.15	M. Gehrels	Developing a Holocene crypto-tephrostratigraphic record for the North Island, New Zealand
3.15 - 3.40	R. Gehrels	Tephrochronology as a tool for reconstructing Holocene sea-level changes: a case from western Iceland

3.40 - 4.00         COFFEE BREAK

Session 6: Poster      Chair: J. Westgate
Time:  4.00 - 5.00
Presenters to give a 5-minute summary of their poster. Posters will remain on walls until end of sessions on  Thursday, 4th August

Speaker	Title
A. Reyes	Cryostratigraphy, tephrochronology, and paleoclimate studies of relict permafrost in the Klondike region of Yukon Territory
B. Jensen	A Middle Pleistocene distal tephra record in Yukon-Charley National Preserve, east-central Alaska
S. Katoh	Paleoenvironmental changes during the last 50,000 years reconstructed from the moor deposits at Ohnuma in the Chugoku Mountains, western Japan
S. Andreastuti	Stratigraphy, age and correlation of a tephra marker bed found in central and east Java, Indonesia: could this wide-spread marker be the “Milk sea” as described in the Calcutta Stone and have contributed to the demise of the c.10th century Hindu Mataram civilization?
S. Davies	Trace element analysis of basaltic tephras from the Greenland ice-cores
S. Wastegård	Distribution, age and geochemistry of North Atlantic ash zones from marine isotope stages 3 and 2

7.00 - 8.00      Public Talk      G. Heiken
Avoidable Disasters: Volcanoes and Humans

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10.10 - 10.30         COFFEE BREAK

Session 8: Regional studies (cont.)      Chair: S. Wastegård

Time	Speaker	Title
10.30 - 10.55	K. Aoki	Late Quaternary tephrochronology of sediment cores in the NW Pacific Ocean
10.55 - 11.20	Y. Sugiuchi	Tephrochronology of recent (~ 1200 YBP) Mt. Fuji eruption history using rhyolitic tephra derived from outside Mt. Fuji Volcano
11.20 - 11.45	L. Zoeller	Is “Eltville tephra” really a tephrostratigraphic marker in central European loess of the LGM?

12.00 - 2.00         LUNCH

Session 8: Regional studies (cont.)      Chair: S. Wastegård

Time	Speaker	Title
2.00 - 2.25	J. Beget	Terrestrial – marine correlation of the Dawson tephra
2.25 - 2.50	D. Froese	Seasonality of the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra and preservation of a buried riparian surface in central Yukon
2.50 - 3.15	J. Riehle	Stratigraphic and compositional complexities of the late Quaternary Lethe tephra in  south-central Alaska

3.15 - 3.30         COFFEE BREAK

3.30 - 5.00         Chair: B. Alloway
Discussion of papers given on Wednesday and Thursday

7.00         CONFERENCE BANQUET         Talk by Paul Matheus, title TBA