- Anthony D. Barnosky
- Andrea Borsato
- Kristine L. DeLong
- Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
- Yongming Han
- Martin J. Head
- Stephen Himson
- Juliana A. Ivar do Sul
- Jérôme Kaiser
- Michinobu Kuwae
- Kira Lappé
- Francine M.G. McCarthy
- Bernd M. Scherer
- Allison Stegner
- Liz Thomas
- Simon Turner
- Michael Wagreich
- Colin Waters
- Mark Williams
- Jan Zalasiewicz
- Jens Zinke
Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
During Unearthing the Present, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will present the conclusive stratigraphic findings from twelve sites that hold the potential to become a GSSP for the formal demarcation of the Anthropocene. The twelve research teams will present these different environmental archives – such as Antarctic ice core, lake sediments, corals or peat – and discuss the material evidence of a variety of anthropogenic impacts.
Interested publics from within and outside the geosciences are invited to attend the three-day internal forum.
Vortragssaal, HKW Berlin, free admission
Registration required until May 13
- Wednesday, May 18, 2022
9:00 am - 7:00 pm
9:00 Welcome and Introduction by Bernd Scherer and Colin Waters
9:30 Flinders Reef, Australia (Jens Zinke)
11:00 Searsville Reservoir, USA (Anthony D. Barnosky, Allison Stegner)
12:00 San Francisco Estuary, USA (Mark Williams, Stephen Himson)
14:00 Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica (Liz Thomas)
15:00 East Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea (Jérôme Kaiser, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul)
16:30 West Garden Flower Bank Reef, USA (Kristine L. DeLong)
17:30 Crawford Lake, Canada (Francine M.G. McCarthy)
18:30 Wrap Up (Simon Turner, Colin Waters)
- Thursday, May 19, 2022
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
09:15 Sihailongwan Lake, China (Yongming Han)
10:15 Beppu Bay, Japan (Michinobu Kuwae)
11:30 Ernesto Cave, Italy (Andrea Borsato)
12:30 Karlsplatz Soils, Vienna, Austria (Michael Wagreich, Kira Lappé )
14:30 Śnieżka Peatland, The Sudetes, Poland (Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł)
15:30 Wrap Up & Closing (Simon Turner & Colin Waters)
- Friday, May 20, 2022
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Public Forum: Q&A on Revealing the Stratigraphic Anthropocene
Introduction by Martin J. Head, Jan Zalasiewicz
This public forum gives the audience a unique occasion to enter into dialogue with AWG and GSSP-researchers working on the stratigraphic Anthropocene and its broader concept. In the framework of a Q&A session, participants will have the opportunity to raise questions regarding the presentations of the previous two days, or more generally regarding the process of defining a GSSP as a boundary for a geological epoch. The forum will open with a brief summary of the previous two days and an introduction on the protocol for defining a GSSP. This introduction will be led by AWG members who also have a position in the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), to which the AWG will submit their GSSP recommendation in December this year. Representatives of the twelve candidate-GSSP projects, alongside further AWG-members, will respond to questions from the audience.
