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8:15 a.m.	Registration and Coffee
9:00	Welcome and Introduction
Part I	Climate Change: Understanding the Past
9:15	Moderator Michael Novacek Provost and Senior Vice-President for Science, American Museum of Natural History
9:30	Surprise in the Greenhouse Wallace S. Broecker Newberry Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
9:50	Rapid Climate Change in the Holocene Dorothy Peteet NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
10:10	The Polar Ice Core Archive of Climate Change Edward Brook Department of Geology, Washington State University
10:30	Questions from the Audience
10:45	Coffee Break
Part II	Climate Change and Extinction: What's the Connection?
11:00	Moderator Niles Eldredge Curator, Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History
11:15	Mass Extinctions and the History of Life Paul E. Olsen Storke Memorial Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
11:35	Climate Change and the Fossil Record John Van Couvering Head, Micropaleontology Press, American Museum of Natural History
11:55	Vertebrate Extinctions and Quaternary Climate Change: No Connection, Bad Connection, or Missed Connection? Ross D. E. MacPhee Chairman and Curator, Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History
12:15	The Last Great Warming Scott Wing Research Curator, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
12:35 p.m.	Questions from the audience
12:50	Lunch
Part III	Is the Earth Warming?: A Look at the Evidence
2:00	Introduction Ellen V. Futter President, American Museum of Natural History
2:15	Keynote Presentation D. James Baker Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S. Department of Commerce
2:45	Questions from the audience
3:00	Coffee Break
Part IV	The Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity
3:15	Moderator Rob DeSalle Associate Curator and Co-Director of the Molecular Laboratories, American Museum of Natural History
3:30	Nowhere to Run: The Threat of Global Warming to Ecosystems and Species Adam Markham Director, Climate Change Program, World Wildlife Fund
3:50	Global Change and Plant Extinction: How Great is the Impact? Kent E. Holsinger Professor of Biology, Director, Center for Conservation and Biodiversity, University of Connecticut
4:10	Insect Response to Climate Change: Evidence from the Quaternary Fossil Record Scott A. Elias Fellow, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado
4:30	Unpredictable Effects of Global Climate Change: Coral Bleaching and Coral Disease in the Florida Keys James Porter University of Georgia
4:50	Questions from the audience