8:00 AM: Caron, Jean-Bernard ^*,1, ¹ Royal Ontario Museum-Palaeobiology-Dpt, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Community analysis of the Middle Cambrian Greater Phyllopod Bed, Burgess Shale.

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8:20 AM: Hotchkiss, Sara^*,1, Calcote, Randy², Lynch, Elizabeth³, Yanger, Cathy¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN³ Luther College, Decorah, IA, Circles in the sand: an analysis of presettlement vegetation and pollen assemblages from the northwest Wisconsin sand plain.

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8:40 AM: Calcote, Randy¹, Hotchkiss, Sara², Lynch, Beth³, ¹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN² University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI³ Luther College, Decorah, IA, Pre- and post-settlement vegetation change on a Wisconsin outwash plain.

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9:00 AM: Hanselman, Jennifer¹, Bush, Mark¹, Gosling, William¹, ¹ Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A., Difference in community composition between and within the Holocene and MIS 5e in two records from Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru).

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9:20 AM: Koster, Dorte^{*,1, 3}, Lichter, John¹, Lea, Peter², ¹ Department of Biology, Brunswick, Maine, USA³ Department of Biology, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada² Department of Geology, Brunswick, Maine, USA, 300 years of environmental degradation, 30 years of recovery: the environmental history of Merrymeeting Bay.

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9:50 AM: Finkelstein, Sarah^*,1, Gajewski, Konrad¹, Viau, Andre¹, ¹ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Taxonomic resolution and the postglacial history of the forests of eastern North America: Analysis from the North American Pollen Database.

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10:10 AM: Higuera, Philip ^*,1, Brubaker, Linda¹, Anderson, Patricia¹, Hu, Feng Sheng², Clegg, Ben ², Brown, Tom³, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA² University of Illinois, Urbana, IL³ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, The relative importance of vegetational vs. climatic controls on post-glacial fire regimes in the southern Brooks Range, AK.

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10:30 AM: Henne, Paul^*,1, Hu, Feng Sheng¹, ¹ University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Spatial and temporal response of forest communities to variation in lake-effect snow in northern Lower Michigan.

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10:50 AM: Spear, Ray ^*,1, Cwynar, Les², Kurek, Joshua², ¹ State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York, USA² University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Vegetation history of the White Mountains of New England and development of the white pine, hemlock, northern hardwood forests.

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11:10 AM: Wathen, Steve^{*,1, 2}, ¹ University of California, Davis, CA, USA² , The use of high magnitude spikes in sedimentary charcoal and magnetic susceptibility to detect abrupt climate change and subsequent geomorphological and ecological readjustment.

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