Leopoldina Symposium
"Deglacial changes in ocean circulation and atmospheric CO2"

March 18-21, 2015, Halle

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was founded in 1652 and is one of the oldest academies of science in the world. The Leopoldina Symposium on Deglacial changes in ocean circulation and atmospheric CO2 took place from 18th to 21st March 2015 in the impressive academy office in Halle (Saale), Germany.

The meeting focusses on the modern, glacial and deglacial carbon transfer between ocean, atmosphere and land, presented in 48 talks of renowned scientists and 19 posters of early career scientists (abstracts published in Nova Acta Leopoldina, Band 121, Nr. 408). The presentations covered different paleo-climatic approaches from sediment and ice cores to Earth-system modeling, to understand the key processes which led to the deglacial changes in atmospheric CO2 and ocean circulation. Furthermore, Thomas Stocker held an interesting public presentation on the key results of the latest IPCC report “Klimawandel: Zu spät für 2°C?”

During this symposium with around 90 participants I got the opportunity to present my PhD project in form of a poster (“Sensitivity of open-ocean convection to ice-sheet melting: A regional modeling approach”) where I could exchange and discuss it within the poster sessions.

Participating in the Leopoldina Symposium gave me a great opportunity to enhance my knowledge about key processes during the last deglaciation.

I would like to thank Prof. Michael Sarnthein and the organizing committee for the invitation and ArcTrain and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for the financial support.

Annegret Krandick