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*Page numbers indicate the abstract’s location in Appendix A: Oral Presentation Abstracts

Day 1 - 1st September 2016

8:30 to 9:00 Poster set-up and Registration 9:00 to 9:15 Welcome 9:15 to 10:00 Beyond the Endless Frontier - a Personal Journey of Discovery

• Prof. Chris Rapley (Keynote)

10:00 to 11:30 7 talks of 12.5 mins [O1.1] The future costs of energy storage and its value in low-carbon energy systems. SCHMIDT, O., Staffell, I., Few, S. and A. Gambhir [O1.2] Oxygen and carbon isotopic variability in modern rodent populations: implications for palaeoenvironmental studies. PENEYCAD, E., Candy, I. and D. Schreve [O1.3] Managing the effects of dry spells through low material cost adaptations among small holder farmers in the Volta, assessing biophysical and social variability. SMEDLEY, D. [O1.4] Does vegetation respond to centennial-scale climatic oscillations? Evidence from Tirinie, a Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition site in the Scottish Highlands. ABROOK, A., Matthews, I., Milner, A., Candy I., Francis, C., Lincoln, P., Mass, D. and D. Sachse [O1.5] Climate change adaption in a tropical carnivore is limited by constraints on nocturnal activity. RABAIOTTI, D. and R. Woodroffe [O1.6] Improving the efficiency of ensemble forecasts: A multilevel Monte Carlo approach. GREGORY, A. [O1.7] The ecological impacts and environmental challenges of a new invasive species in UK rivers: the Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) MILLS, D., Chadwick, M. and R. Francis p.20* p.17 p.21 p.1 p.18 p.7 p.15 11:30 to 11:50 Refreshment break 11:50 to 13:05 6 talks of 12.5 mins [O1.8] Global onshore wind potentials for energy systems models: a geospatial analysis. BOSCH, J., Staffel, I. and A. Hawkes [O1.9] El Niño Dependent Groundwater Recharge in East Africa: A 2015/16 ‘Godzilla’ El Niño case study.

• SEDDON. D., Taylor, R., Kashagili, J., Cutherbert, M. and M. Todd

[O1.10] Microbially Mediated Arsenopyrite Dissolution: Knowns and Unknowns. JONES., S. [O1.11] Improving water resource management in data scarce-regions under environmental change. OCHOA-TOCACHI, B., Buytaert, W. and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA) p.4 p.20 p.11 p.16

DTP Conference 2016: Perspectives on Environmental Change

*Page numbers indicate the abstract’s location in Appendix A: Oral Presentation Abstracts [O1.12] Examining nitrogen budgets across the sediment-water interface in urban London rivers to determine the success of restoration. LAVELLE, A. [O1.13] Atmospheric studies of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in California. BROPHY, K. and H. Graven p.13 p.4* 13:05 to 14:30 Lunch and Poster session PS1: 13:30 to 14:00 PS2: 14:00 to 14:30 14:40 to 15:30 Workshop 15:30 to 15:55 Refreshment break 15:55 to 17:10 6 talks of 12.5 mins [O1.14] Ecological speciation in the Neotropical flora. SCHLEY, R., de la Estrella, M., Klitgård, B., Forest, F. and T. Barraclough [O1.15] Ecosystem resilience to abrupt climatic and environmental change in southern Siberia during the Late Quaternary. HARDING, P., Mackay A.W., Bezrukova, E.V. and A. Shchetnikov [O1.16] 16th – century America’s population demise, land use and carbon cycle changes. KOCH, A., Lewis, S., Maslin, M. and C. Brierley [O1.17] Is hotter indeed better for phytoplankton growth rates? KONTOPOULOS, D., Yvon-Durocher, G. and S. Pawar [O1.18] The Yangtze finless porpoise: investigating key threats and conservation priorities. MOGENSEN, L. and S. Turvey [O1.19] Exploring the effect of recent environmental change on observed vertebrate population trends. SPOONER, F., Freeman, R. and R. Pearson p.19 p.8 p.12 p.13 p.15 p.21 17:10 to 17:25 Wrap up 17:30 to 19:15 BBQ and networking event 19:15 to 21:30 Science comedy show-off

*Page numbers indicate the abstract’s location in Appendix A: Oral Presentation Abstracts

Day 2 - 2nd September 2016

8:30 to 9:00 Poster set-up and Registration 9:00 to 9:15 Welcome 9:15 to 10:00 The challenges of navigating industry, policy and research Elizabeth Surkovic (Keynote) 10:00 to 11:30 7 talks of 12.5 mins [O2.1] Sustainable meat? A computational approach to optimal harvesting. BARYCHKA, T. [O2.2] Ups and downs: fluctuating patterns of population density in tropical forest small mammals across a long-term dataset. CHAPMAN, P. [O2.3] How much green and where, to protect cities from flooding? An ecosystem services approach to map the water storage capacity of natural infrastructure, now and under climate change. GUNNELL, K. and M. Mulligan [O2.4] The changing topography of the Western Mediterranean. QUYE-SAWYER, J., Whittaker, A., Roberts, G. and D. Rood [O2.5] The Taxonomy and Morphological Changes within the Miocene Planktonic Foraminiferal Genus Paragloborotalia.

• KING. D., Wade, B.S. and G. Miller

[O2.6] Optimality and Stability in Carbon Emissions Rights Allocation RISTIC, B., Madani, K. and Y. Wang [O2.7] In search of plastic accumulation regions: fine-tuning ocean surface transport models. McADAM, R. and E. Van Sebille p.3* p.6 p.7 p.17 p.12 p.18 p.14 11:30 to 11:50 Refreshment break 11:50 to 13:05 6 talks of 12.5 mins [O2.8] The influence of interspecific competition on the relationship between abundance of spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) and its prey across Africa: lessons for the past. JONES, A., Carbone, C. and D. Schreve [O2.9] Comparison pf crayfish capture methodologies for population estimates in headwater streams. CHADWICK, D. [O2.10] Inert Bond Activation for the Utilisation of Environmentally Harmful Chemicals. HICKEN, A. and M.R. Crimmin [O2.11] Modelling the Structural Evolution of Campi Flegrei’s Shallow Magmatic System. STEELE, A., Kilburn, C. and A. Gudmundsson [O2.12] Is there a habitat consequence of asymmetric interspecific aggression in birds on tropical mountains? JONES, S. and S. Portugal [O2.13] Validation of sediment-based palaeosalinity reconstructions from coastal lakes and wetlands using instrumental and documentary records ROBERTS, L., Holmes, J. and D. Horne p.10 p.5 p.9 p.22 p.11 p.19 13:05 to 14:30 Lunch and Poster session PS3: 13:30 to 14:00 PS4: 14:00 to 14:30 14:40 to 15:30 Workshop

*Page numbers indicate the abstract’s location in Appendix A: Oral Presentation Abstracts 15:30 to 15:55 Refreshment break 15:55 to 17:00 5 talks of 12.5 mins [O2.14] Estimating dinosaur biodiversity in the Cretaceous using climatic envelopes and ecological modelling CHIARENZA, A., Allison, P. and P. Mannion [O2.15] Assessing the impact of the 2015 / 2016 El Niño heating event on the structural complexity of coral reefs BAYLEY, D., Koldewey, H. and A. Mogg [O2.16] The Missing Link: chemicals, epigenetics and breast cancer. MAUND, P., Emler, S., Widschwendter, M. and E. Silva [O2.17] Assessing the extent of semi-arid environments in Late Quaternary Eurasia using mammalian evidence: implications for understanding ecological and human responses to abrupt climate change. ARNOLD, D., Blockley, S. and D. Schreve [O2.18] Why has the amplitude of the seasonal cycle of CO2 at high northern latitudes increased? THOMAS, R. p.6* p.3 p.14 p.2 p.22 17:00 to 17:30 Prize giving and wrap up 17:30 onwards Social event onboard the Tattershall Castle at Embankment Pier