Synergistic Activities: Neogene Pacific paleoceanography with focus on understanding variation in production, export productivity and dissolution and the relationship to climate change and the CO2 cycle.
Understanding climate change by translating global processes to local consequences and mitigations. Emphasis placed on education of educators, students and policy and decision makers.
Themes: Paleoceanography, Phytoplankton productivity, Diatoms and biotic response to climate variability, Carbon cycle, Biosiliceous sedimentation, Micropaleontology, and Biostratigraphy