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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Warmly welcome to the public defense of the
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Academic dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Geography</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">Meighan Boyd</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">‘Speleothems in warm climates. Holocene records from the Carribbean and Mediterranean regions’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:red">Friday December 4, 2015, starting 1300 h in De Geersalen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The opponent and members of the examination committee are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Opponent: </span>
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Ian Fairchild, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Examination committee member:
</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Associate Professor Silvia Frisia,
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Examination committee member:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Associate Professor Henriette Linge,
</span></b><a href="http://www.uib.no/en/geo"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#026F9C">Department of Earth Science</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">,
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt">University of Bergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Examination committee member:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Associate Professor Giovanni Zanchetta,
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">Department of Earth Sciences, Geochemistry and Volcanology,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222">University of Pisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Reserve member: </span>
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Carl-Magnus Mörth, </span>
</b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Greetings and welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Karin Holmgren, main supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">_________________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Karin Holmgren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor and Head of Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Department of Physical Geography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Stockholm University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">+4686747157<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ink.su.se/"><span lang="EN-US">www.ink.su.se</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://people.su.se/~kahol/"><span lang="EN-US">http://people.su.se/~kahol/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Director, Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Navarino Dunes, Costa Navarino<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">24001, Messinia, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">+302723090990<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.navarinoneo.se/"><span lang="EN-US">www.navarinoneo.se</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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