Anthropocene Working Group 2009 –
How to assess the Anthropocene as a geological time unit?
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary geoscience research group dedicated to the investigation of the chronostratigraphic reality of the Anthropocene. The AWG was established in 2009 by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), a component body of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the committee that oversees the standards and requirements for the ongoing review and further completion of the geologic time scale.
Read MoreThe first in-person meeting of the AWG was hosted by HKW in October 2014. Another four of these meetings were held in the framework of the joint cooperation between AWG, HKW, MPIWG (Berlin, Mainz, and New Orleans). Two further meetings took place in Cambridge and Oslo. © Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke
- contributionSimon Turner, Anthropocene Working Group
Defining a New Earth Epoch
The geological time scale and the work of the Anthropocene Working Group.
- contributionAnthropocene Working Group, Jan Zalasiewicz
Conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz
A conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz on the geological Anthropocene research.
Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Technosphere
- 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
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz
A Legacy of the Technosphere
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz considers the technofossils that far-future archaeologists will find when digging up the landfills of the global experiment called Anthropocene.
Reflection, Technosphere, Future, Topography, Waste
- 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
- contributionGiulia Bruno, Armin Linke
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
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Anthropocene Commons, 2022 –
Emerging from the Anthropocene Curriculum (2013–22), the Anthropocene Commons is an open network of activists, artists, educators, researchers, and scientists who create shared spaces to imagine and explore transformative pedagogies and research practices for collective action.
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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
- projectRavi Agarwal, Mohammad Al Attar, Lisa Baraitser, Felipe Castelblanco, Maria Chehonadskih, Shadreck Chirikure, Myung Ae Choi, L. Sasha Gora, Orit Halpern, Valentina Karga, John Kim, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Margarida Mendes, Claire Pentecost, Jahnavi Phalkey, Patricia Reed, Sophia Roosth, Nishant Shah, Adania Shibli, Fernando Silva e Silva, Rebecca Snedeker, Nikiwe Solomon, Jenna Sutela, Koki Tanaka, Simon Turner, Mark Williams, Mi You, Jan Zalasiewicz, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Kai van Eikels
Where is the Planetary?
Where is the Planetary? is a collective search for models of living together on Earth.
Experiment, Engagement, Scale, Care, Ethics, Cosmologies
