- Martin J. Head
- Katrin Klingan
- Francine M.G. McCarthy
- Christoph Rosol
- Bernd M. Scherer
- Georg N. Schäfer
- Simon Turner
- Colin Waters
Press Material GSSP Candidate Site Announcement
Please find further information here regarding the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the AWG’s proposed GSSP candidate site of the Anthropocene series, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Please click here for press pictures and the joint press announcement of the AWG and the Max Planck Society.
The results of the AWG’s GSSP work were published in a Special Issue of The Anthropocene Review, including an afterword co-authored with the HKW and MPIWG project partners on the role of their collaboration in the research process.
Further information about this collaborative process can also be found in the MPIWG Feature Story The Anthropocene’s Signal: What the Geology of the Present Beckons for the Future of Research.
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Anthropocene Working Group 2009 –
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.
- 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
The AWG's proposed GSSP candidate site of the Anthropocene series
- contributionSoren Brothers, Katrin Klingan, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Michelle Murphy, Catherine Tammaro, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Life, History, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Scale, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge production
- contributionLesley J. F. Green, Francine M.G. McCarthy
Exchange on Geo-Inheritance
What alliances and common questions can help to work toward a science of partnerships, especially in processes that include more-than-human entities?
Conversation, Engagement, Knowledge production, Education, Complexity, History
- contributionAnthony D. Barnosky, Alejandro Cearreta, Kristine L. DeLong, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Mark Williams, Jens Zinke
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
What sociopolitical considerations emerge through the geological evidence for the Anthropocene?
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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
- 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
- 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
