报告题目：What caused the last great global meltdown:  Insights from the record of mountain glaciation   

　　报告人：Dr. Aaron Putnam （University of Maine）   

　　报告时间：2017年8月9日（星期三）8:30-10:00   

　　报告地点：研究所三楼300会议室   

　　报告人简介：   

　　  Dr. Aaron Putnam is the George H. Denton Assistant Professor at the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. He received his B.S.from Bates College and Ph.D. from the University of Maine. He researches how interactions among Earth’s surface, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans produce glacial cycles and abrupt climate change.He has studied regional climate all over the world, including the Mongolia Altai, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges, the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada of North America, the Swiss Alps, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and the Andes of South America. He is currently working on a project reconstructing the past climate in interior Asia. Dr. Putnam lives in Orono, Maine with his wife Dr. Katherine Allen.  

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