Keyword: Stratigraphy
- projectKatrin Klingan, Georg N. Schäfer, Giulia Bruno, Simon Turner, Armin Linke, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck, J. Rowan Deer
Geology of the Present Publication
The transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene is turning geology into a social science. Researchers and artists grapple with stratigraphic materials and the challenges of in planetary knowledge production.
Archiving, Conversation, Storytelling, Consensus Building, Care, Climate change, Future, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Deep time
- projectChristoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, Anna Echterhölter, Nigel Clark, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Karolina Sobecka, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler, Kat Austen, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke, Victor Galaz, Simon Turner, Susan Schuppli, Liz Thomas, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Evidence Ensembles Publication
Conversation, Archiving, Sensing, Intervention, Consensus, Critical materials, Deep time, Knowledge infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Complexity
- projectFrancine M.G. McCarthy, Colin Waters, Simon Turner, Martin J. Head, Bernd M. Scherer, Christoph Rosol, Georg N. Schäfer, Katrin Klingan
Press Material GSSP Candidate Site Announcement
Press material on the AWG, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, Media
- contributionArmin Linke, Giulia Bruno
Earth Indices
An in progress digital publication resulting from the artistic installation presented at HKW by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke with the scientists of the AWG.
Archiving, Conversation, Field Work, Engagement, Experiment, Data, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Holocene
- contributionAnthropocene Working Group
The Geology and Culture of the Anthropocene
In this audio episode, we hear from various participants of the Unearthing the Present event and discuss the science and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene.
Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Knowledge production, Human-environment relations, Anthropos
- contributionJamie Allen, Catherine Russell
It All Begins on the Surface
A conversation between Dr. Catherine Russell, Anthropocene sedimentologist and Dr. Jamie Allen, an artist and media researcher.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Water
- contributionJamie Allen, Irka Hajdas
Exchange On Deep Time And Deep Responseability
How do the geochronologists and geohistorians understand their response-ability to material signals from the past?
Conversation, Reflection, Stratigraphy, Time, Deep time, Agency
- contributionVictor Galaz, Cymene Howe, Liz Thomas, Ricarda Winkelmann
Clashing Presents: Between Big Melt and Small Governance
Which temporal immediacies and horizons do new forms of collectives, connected through a rising global ocean, need to coalesce?
Conversation, Reflection, Consensus, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Time, Policy
- contributionBernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Andrea Borsato, Ann Cotten, Nigel Clark, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Clashing Presents: Reconciling Presents
A conversation that takes the stratigraphic research in Ernesto Cave, Italy, as a starting point for exploring how we might conceive a truly planetary time.
Conversation, Reflection, Stratigraphy, Time, Deep time, Water, Data
- contributionAnthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Allison Stegner
How to Read a Changing Earth?
A live annotation of a sediment core from the Searsville Lake uncovered the anthropogenic markers inscribed into this stratigraphic material.
Archiving, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Stratigraphy, Data, Holocene, Sedimentation, Water
- contributionAnthropocene Working Group
Anthropocene Working Group Public Forum
As part of the Unearthing the Present events in May 2022, the public were given the opportunity to ask questions members of the AWG questions about their work.
Anthropos, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Knowledge production, Sedimentation
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz, Anthropocene Working Group
Conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz
A conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz on the geological Anthropocene research.
Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Technosphere
- projectArmin Linke, Giulia Bruno, Linda van Deursen
Earth Indices
A project by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Field Work, Conversation, Data, Holocene, Media, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Landscape
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Unearthing the Present
What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Conversation, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Agency, Anthropos, Biosphere, Carbon, Climate change, Data, Deep time, Extraction, Ocean, Radioactivity, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy
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Core Readings
For the opening night of Unearthing the Present, scientists, researchers and artists undertake a series of close readings in the stratigraphic archives of the Anthropocene.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Holocene, Deep time
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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.
Case Study, Consensus Building, Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Deep time, Landscape, Ocean, Data, Sedimentation
- event
Clashing Presents
Exploring the competing time horizons, latency effects and accelerations that run counter to the pulse of late-Holocene societies.
Conversation, Extinction, Deep time, Time, Holocene, System, Biosphere, Stratigraphy, Governance
- event
Earth Indices
An exhibition by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Archiving, Intervention, Field Work, Data, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Holocene, Sedimentation
- contributionMark Williams, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jens Zinke, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kristine L. DeLong
Biological and Paleontological Signatures of the Anthropocene
Lakes, seas, estuaries, and wetlands provide important archives of humanity’s reconfiguration of life in the Anthropocene.
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Extinction, Evolution, History, Scale, Stratigraphy, Future
- contributionIan Fairchild, Alejandro Cearreta, Colin Summerhayes, Agnieszka Gałuszka, Michael Wagreich
The Anthropocene Signal Amidst the Noise
Field Work, Deep time, Future, Scale, Stratigraphy
- contributionJürgen Renn, Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson
Traces and Symptoms
What kind of sign is a marker? Jürgen Renn and Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson sketch the dual role of markers as traces in the strata and symptoms of a destabilized Earth System—an interface between natural archives and human societies.
Reflection, Deep time, Consensus, Epistemology, Disciplinarity, Knowledge transformation, Stratigraphy, System
- contributionAnna Echterhölter
Human-Mineral Classification
In search for the normative elements of technofossil classification, Anna Echterhölter reflects on this history of mineral classification in the European tradition and the thick classification of Pacific totemism.
Calculation, Critical materials, Epistemology, Extraction, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy
- contributionChristoph Rosol
When the Signal Disappears in the Noise
Christoph Rosol reflects on the disturbing schism between geoscientific insights and the info-capitalist modus operandi diluting these insights to mere noise. Are we ready to comprehend what the Earth has already recorded?
Reflection, Capitalism, Consensus, Epistemology, Future, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Technoscience, System
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz, Peter K. Haff, Matt Edgeworth, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Daniel Richter
The Technofossil Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet
Field Work, Commodities, Deep time, Engineering, Scale, Stratigraphy, Technosphere
- contributionChristoph Rosol
A Mid-Twentieth Century Start Date for Anthropocene Geology
Christoph Rosol sketches out the marriage of paleoceanography with isotope chemistry in the middle of the twentieth century, part of a synchronism between the onset of the Anthropocene and the emergence of the technical means of understanding it.
Storytelling, Deep time, Ecology, Disciplinarity, Human-environment relations, Knowledge transformation, Stratigraphy, History, Technoscience
- contributionYongming Han, J.R. McNeill, Neil L. Rose, Simon Turner
Combustion Products as Markers for the Anthropocene
Field Work, Carbon, Deep time, Future, Scale, Stratigraphy, Thermodynamics
- contributionAgnieszka Gałuszka, Neil L. Rose, Andy Cundy, Michael Wagreich, Yongming Han, Simon Turner, William Shotyk
Anthropogenic Threats to Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Degradation, Ecology, Future, Stratigraphy, Scale, Species
- contributionCristián Simonetti, Matt Edgeworth
Concrete: A Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene
We are live in the venerable International Court of Stratigraphic Arbitration, and on trial is the question whether concrete, the unparalleled material, is indeed an admissible marker for defining the onset of the Anthropocene.
Critical materials, Deep time, Future, Infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Urbanism
- contributionMarcia Bjornerud
Ironies of the Anthropocene
Faced with the Anthropocene, Marcia Bjornerud sees a set of grave ironies at play that make it hard for any geologist to capture its real meaning. We can only acknowledge these ironies and use them wisely to restore a lost alliance with the Earth.
Anthropos, Deep time, Extinction, Extraction, Stratigraphy, Affect
- contributionAndrew Gustin, Temporary continent.
Enter Anthropocene: Searching for signal in New Orleans
Despite this quest to identify a formally recognized boundary, perhaps uncertainty is the most effective means of furthering societal recognition of the complexities of human impact.
Conversation, Reflection, Field Work, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Complexity, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionAgnieszka Gałuszka
Environmental Geochemistry of River Sediments
What do the layers of river sedimentation reveal about the human impact on the Mississippi river system?
Case Study, Field Work, Sedimentation, Water, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Geochemistry
- projectAnthropocene Working Group
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations.
Monitoring, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Mapping, Modeling, Biosphere, Carbon, Ecology, Water, Holocene, Stratigraphy
- projectBrian Holmes, Jeremy Bolen, Caroline Picard, Oliver Sann, Andrew Yang, Lorraine Daston, Ryan Griffis, Evan Graham, Jenny Magnus, Viviana de la Rosa, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, Guanyu Xu
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago’ pamphlets delve into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem.
Case Study, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Education, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, History, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
