NORDQUA

Pangeo/DEUQUA 2024
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-27 | Salzburg, Austria
The upcoming joint Pangeo-DEUQUA conference will take place on 23rd to 27th September 2024. It will be held at the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences of the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS), Hellbrunner Str. 34, 5020 Salzburg. Under the heading “Converging Spheres”, this conference provides an open platform for presentation of research carried out at universities, other organizations, and companies.
Registration for the conference at an early bird-rate and abstract submission are open until June 3rd

IAVCEI Commission on Tephrochronology
2024-09-08 - 2024-09-15 | Catania, Sicily
International conference in Catania, Sicily. Cosponsored by INTIMATE and IAVCEI Tephra Hazard Modelling Commission.

International Glaciological Society, British Branch Meeting
2024-09-02 - 2024-09-03 | Liverpool, UK
This is the 50th anniversary of the meeting and we’re looking forward to welcoming all glacial folks out there!

QRA Postgraduate Symposium 2024
2024-08-29 - 2024-08-31 | Belfast, UK
This year’s conference will include a workshop on Bayesian approaches to age-depth modelling, and an optional field trip to see the fascinating quaternary records present in the Irish landscape!

Peribaltic Working Group International Field Symposium
2024-08-25 - 2024-08-30 | Pärnu, Estonia
In 2024, the Peribaltic WG conference will be held in western Estonia, including the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, on August 25-30, with a meeting point in Pärnu. The scientific session on August 26 will be followed by the field trip on August 27-30, which will start and end in Pärnu. Like in the case of previous Peribaltic WG meetings, this symposium is not restricted to topics shown in the title, but contributions on a broad range of regionally or globally relevant Quaternary geological topics are welcome. We try to keep the meeting simple and affordable, especially for students and senior colleagues.

IAS 2024: Aberdeen
2024-06-25 - 2024-06-27 | Aberdeen, UK
The IAS Conference 2024 will take place in Aberdeen from 25 – 27 June 2024. There will be opportunities to participate in Workshops and Fieldtrips both in advance of, and after the main conference. There will also be a lively social programme including a Conference Dinner and Ceilidh – don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes!
The conference theme is Adapting to a Changing World and sub-themes will be derived from the abstract submissions received.

PalaeoArc 2024
2024-05-27 - 2024-05-29 | Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden
The 5th PalaeoArc Conference will be held between May 27-29, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. An optional 1-day fieldtrip will be organised on Sunday May 26th, before the 3-day conference begins. Logisitcal details will be available at the start of January when we will send out another circular with information on how to register.
The scientific session on Wednesday May 29 will be dedicated to presentations on Arctic/sub-Arctic paleoclimates of the last interglacial (LIG). This session will be run jointly with a smaller targeted workshop entitled: LIGA: Spatial Patterns of Last Interglacial Arctic climate change (LIGA) that will continue on the Thursday and Friday of that week.
The purpose of LIGA is bring together paleoclimate proxy and modeling experts to compare spatial patterns of climate change during the LIG with today and investigate to what extent it is or isn’t an analog for the future.

EGU General Assembly 2024
2024-04-14 - 2024-04-19 | Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The EGU General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

Arctic Science Summit Week 2024
2024-03-21 - 2024-03-29 | Edinburgh, UK
The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) was initiated by IASC in 1999 to provide opportunities for coordination, cooperation and collaboration between various scientific organizations involved in Arctic research and to economize on travel and time. Over the years, the summit evolved into the most important annual gathering of the Arctic research organizations. The summit is organized by an International Coordination Group and any organization engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research may participate.

52nd International Arctic Workshop
2024-03-13 - 2024-03-16 | Amherst, USA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Postponed from April 2023 to March 2024.

SIOS Polar Night Week
2024-01-22 - 2024-01-26 | Longyearbyen, Svalbard
The Polar Night Week is an arena for exchange, reflection and planning of future activities and creates a vibrant atmosphere in the middle of the beauty of the Polar Night.
This annual meeting brings the SIOS community together for science seminars, working group meetings and plenary discussions. One of the highlights is the release of newest issue of the State of Environmental Science (SESS) report.
There is no charge for attending Polar Night Week for SIOS members, but you will need to cover your own travel and accommodation costs, as well as meals other than lunch and the conference dinner. If you come from a non-member institution please contact us for details about the participation fee.

Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2024
2024-01-10 - 2024-01-12 | Gothenburg, Sweden
The deadline for abstract submission is October 7.
For the 36th time, geologists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden will gather for the biennial Nordic Geological Winter Meeting. The meeting comes ‘back’ to Gothenburg where the very first NGWM was held in 1954, and we are proud to bring the NGWM back home!

QRA 60th Anniversary Annual Discussion Meeting
2024-01-04 - 2024-01-07 | Manchester, UK
For the 2024 QRA Annual Discussion Meeting, we aim to bring together researchers from all areas of Quaternary Science to celebrate this significant anniversary. The meeting theme, Changing Resolutions in Quaternary Science, has been chosen to encourage contributions from all areas of Quaternary research. We welcome contributions relating to multiple concepts of ‘changing resolutions’; from advances in measurement precision, data resolution, and timescales through to a consideration of the changing practice of Quaternary research. For example, this could include changing resolution(s) in:

Dating techniques and their application
Stratigraphic records, including annually laminated records of all types (lake and marine sediments, ice cores, tree rings, speleothems, shells etc.)
Imagery on all scales, from Digital Elevation Models to electron microscopy
Detection and analysis of all types of materials, from DNA to biomarkers to elemental analyses
Understanding of barriers to inclusion in Quaternary research.

AGU Annual Meeting 2023
2023-12-11 - 2023-12-15 | San Francisco, USA
This year, as we convene >25,000 attendees from 100+ countries in San Francisco for AGU23, our theme is: Wide. Open. Science. 2023 might be the official year of Open Science but we also see it as an opportunity to affirm AGU’s overarching values and beliefs. It is a message for all of us to carry as we come together to share, inspire, collaborate, engage and most of all rededicate ourselves as a united community grounded in wide open science.

The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference 2023
2023-11-15 - 2023-11-17 | Southampton, UK
Bridging the Gap: Connecting microfossil groups, environmental systems and people
National Oceanography Centre | University of Southampton Waterfront Campus & Online

The Nansen Legacy Symposium
2023-11-07 - 2023-11-09 | Tromsø, Norway
The Nansen Legacy project invites the Arctic research community to the international symposium in Tromsø, Norway, 7-9 November 2023.
We welcome contributions and discussions across Earth system science to shed light on and reveal both regional characteristics, connections and pan-Arctic responses. Join with contributions and discussions on how the Arctic Ocean is changing and what it will look like in the near future.
Six sessions with oral and poster presentations will provide disciplinary focus across regions, and regional focus across disciplines. While the Nansen Legacy project has focused on the rapidly changing northern Barents Sea shelf and adjacent Arctic Basin, we strive for participation representing the Pan-Arctic heterogeneity to exchange knowledge and to connect science, regions, and humans.

Shaping the future of polar research data
2023-11-02 | Oslo, Norway
The second workshop is on Thursday 2nd November and is hosted by APECS in collaboration with the Svalbard Integrated Observing System (SIOS) entitled “Shaping the future of polar research data” and will be held at Scandic Fornebu, beginning with informal networking activities, followed by a theoretical component focusing on data management with an emphasis on the FAIR data principles.

Svalbard Science Conference 2023
2023-10-31 - 2023-11-01 | Oslo, Norway
The SSC2023 will be held at Scandic Fornebu, Oslo 31 October-1 November 2023. Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) coordinates information about infrastructure and activities in Svalbard. It facilitates coordination, collaboration and data sharing between researchers, and averts unnecessary duplication and encourages a smaller environmental footprint from research in Svalbard.

Research in Svalbard: An APECS Workshop
2023-10-30 | Oslo, Norway
“Research in Svalbard: An APECS workshop” and will be held at Tøyen Hovedgård in Oslo from 09:00-16:00. This workshop aims to bring together ECRs for networking and talks focusing on the themes outreach and education, funding and logistics, data and environment.

QRA Postgraduate Symposium 2023
2023-09-07 - 2023-09-08 | Durham, UK
This year’s postgraduate conference is going to be held on the 7-8th September 2023 at Durham University and welcomes all postgraduate, and undergraduate researchers to present their Quaternary research. This short, two-day conference is a great opportunity for ECRs to present work in a relaxed and unintimidating environment. Whether this be your undergraduate or masters presentation, one of your PhD sites or proxy records, or a new method or technique you are developing – we want to hear it all!
This event will offer a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and can encourage potential collaboration opportunities, build friendships, and develop skills in our postgraduate training workshop.
Tickets are available from 5th June via Eventbrite.
Cost: £10 for members, £20 for non-members
For more information please contact Laura Boyall (Laura.Boyall.2016@live.rhul.ac.uk) or Holly Jenkins (Holly.Jenkins@durham.ac.uk).

NORDQUA excursion 2023
2023-08-31 - 2023-09-02 | Akureyri, Iceland
The 2023 NORDQUA excursion will be run in northern Iceland 31st August – 2nd September. All NORDQUA members are most welcome and encouraged to attend!
The excursion is organized in connection with and will directly follow the 4th International PalaeoArc Conference, which will take place in Akureyri, north Iceland, 27-30th August, 2023.

PalaeoArc 2023
2023-08-27 - 2023-08-30 | Akureyri, Iceland
4th International PalaeoArc Conference on «Processes and Palaeo-environmental changes in the Arctic: from past to present” will be held in Iceland 2023.
Abstract deadline: 15th March 2023
The NORDQUA excursion is organized in connection and will directly follow the conference

NORDQUA members meeting
2023-07-15 18:15 - 19:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Rome, Italy
We have arranged a NORDQUA members meeting after the end of the sessions at 18:15 on Saturday 15th July. You will find us in room 9, 2nd floor of the Scienze della Terra building (use entrance Mineralogia).
We have invited the INQUA Representatives from the three Nordic countries who currently have representation with INQUA, and they will give some brief updates about the INQUA Committee activity that is occurring in tandem to the scientific sessions. In case you are not aware the national representatives are as follows:

Finland – Niko Putkinen, GTK
Norway – Inger Alsos, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Josten Bakke, University of Bergen, and Fredrik Høgaas, NGU
Sweden – Stefan Wastegaard, Stockholm University

We will take a members photo and, for anyone who is interested, expect to move on to an informal social gathering for some drinks and food afterwards.

XXI INQUA 2023
2023-07-14 - 2023-07-20
The theme of our congress is “Time for Change” to emphasize the critical role of Quaternary sciences in contributing the knowledge we need to face current societal and climate challenges. In fact, the understanding of the global changes cannot be achieved without the scientific knowledge of how Earth has changed during the recent geological past. As such, it is very appropriate to convene the international Quaternary community in Italy; the Mediterranean region is so geologically young and active, it is the ideal location to discuss the process and events that shaped the landscape, environments and ecosystems over the last 2.58 million years.

2023 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Training School
2023-07-03 - 2023-07-07 | Gävle, Sweden
The application window will open on 1 November 2022. A training school focused on exploring glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) modelling will be held from 3-7 July 2023 at Lantmäteriet in Gävle, Sweden. The program will include lectures and practical exercises aimed at investigating the interactions between solid Earth deformation, ice mass change, and associated sea-level and geoid variations. Students will complete homework exercises utilizing freely available modelling software and will have the opportunity to spend one-to-one time with leading researchers in the GIA community while working through examples in class. A field trip to examine records of land uplift and sea level change will be included.

EGU General Assembly 2023
2023-04-23 - 2023-04-28 | Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The EGU General Assembly 2023 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
Currently, the EGU23 programme committee is reviewing all proposals and finalizing the session programme for the start of the abstract submission (foreseen on 1 November 2022).

QRA Annual Discussion Meeting 2023
2023-01-05 - 2023-01-06 | London, UK
Applications of Quaternary Geoscience to Engineering: process, properties and behaviour
Themes
Quaternary geoscience supporting the low carbon economy
Engineering in glacial and periglacial sequences
Significance of river terraces and uplift to engineering and geoarchaeology
Climate change, sea-level and coastal processes
Key dates
Abstract submission deadline: 1st December 2022
Registration deadline: 1st January 2023

Vinterkonferansen 2023
2023-01-04 - 2023-01-06 | Trondheim, Norway
The Geological Socety of Norway cordially invites you to join the most important forum for the Geosciences in Norway, January 4th-6th, 2023 at IGP-NTNU in Trondheim
The main theme of this conference is Geology – Energy – Society
We have 16 sessions and themes but encourage any contribution to the entire field of geoscience and the interface towards society. The abstract deadline is November 1st. The abstract can be up to 450 words, and should not include figures or graphes.

IGS Nordic Branch 2022
2022-10-26 - 2022-10-28 | Uppsala, Sweden
The next IGS Nordic branch meeting will be co-arranged by Stockholm and Uppsala University and held in person on 26-28 October 2022 at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

CAGE International Conference
2022-09-14 - 2022-09-16 | Tromsø, Norway
The Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway welcomes your participation in the International Conference on Methane in a Changing Arctic, to be held in Tromsø, 14-16th September.
This conference aims to bring together scientists working on all aspects of Arctic methane and its role in the global carbon cycle. It will provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of knowledge relating to our current understanding of these complex systems and their response to and impact on, the rapid environmental and climatic changes that characterise the Arctic.
Abstract submission deadline:
20th June 2022
Registration deadline:
14th August 2022
