Prof. Dr. Julia Gottschalk, Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany: "Marine proxy evidence for Antarctic Ice sheet retreat during the last peak interglacial climate interval"

Dr. Antonietta Capotondi, University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/PSL: "Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability: How well do we know it?"

Dr. Marilena Oltmanns from National Oceanography Centre, UK: "From the Arctic to the North Atlantic and back: How freshwater-driven feedbacks link Arctic and North Atlantic climate change"

Prof. Dr. Julia Gottschalk, tba

Prof. Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA: "Ocean dynamics in a changing climate"

Dr. Heather Ford, Queen Mary University of London, London, England: "The mid-Pleistocene Enigma: detangling regional and global signals in seawater δ18O records"

Prof. Dr. Philip Pogge von Strandmann, Institute for Geosciences, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany: "Keeping the Earth habitable - the weathering thermostat"