NORDQUA

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!

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.

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

ArcSTRAT - Arctic Ocean Stratigraphic and Paleoclimate Conference
2024-10-22 - 2024-10-25 | Tromsø, Norway
ArcSTRAT will bring together scientists from all around the world to discuss the constraints to date and correlate past climate archives from across the Arctic Ocean. Do you want to be part of this discussion?Join us in Tromsø, 22 – 25 October 2024

IQUA Autumn Symposium 2024
2024-11-29 | Dublin, Ireland
The theme of this year’s symposium will be “Peatlands: Past, Present and Future”. Peatlands are recognised as a pivotal part of the landscape and have had a major impact on the development of culture, history, and science. Recent studies estimate that ~23% of Ireland’s Quaternary landscape can be considered as peat soils. These environments continue to be important for society as we face environmental challenges. In keeping with our theme we are delighted to announce our keynote speakers include Dave Beilman (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa), John Connolly (Trinity College Dublin) and Kate Flood (University College Dublin).

AGU24
2024-12-09 - 2024-12-13 | Washington DC, USA
Each year, AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 25,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research and connect with friends and colleagues. Scientists, educators, policymakers, journalists and communicators attend AGU24 to better understand our planet and environment, opening pathways to discovery, opening greater awareness to address climate change, opening greater collaborations to lead to solutions and opening the fields and professions of science to a whole new age of justice equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
This December, AGU24 returns to Washington, D.C. with the theme “What’s Next for Science.” We can’t wait to see you there.

Vinterkonferansen 2025
2025-01-06 - 2025-01-08 | Bergen, Norway
The Geological Socety of Norway cordially invites you to join the most important forum for the Geosciences in Norway, January 6th-8th 2025, at HVL in Bergen. The main theme of this conference is Geology, natural resources and Society in the energy transition.

QRA Annual Discussion Meeting 2025
2025-01-06 - 2025-01-09 | Newcastle, UK
The theme of the ADM this year is ‘Quaternary Insights: Linking the Past, Present and Future’.
We welcome contributions relating to the broad theme of Quaternary Insights, which can include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Modern analogues to reconstruct past environmental processes.

Connecting palaeorecords to the instrumental record.

Examining past patterns, rates and magnitudes of change to inform future trajectories.

Investigating human and environmental interactions across a range of past, present and future timescales

EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) – good practice and future directions.

Lund Luminescence Day 2025
2025-01-16 | Lund, Sweden
Hosted by the Lund University Luminescence centre for Dating and Dosimetry (Department of Geology in Lund, and Medical Radiation Physics in Malmö), we aim to introduce participants to luminescence dating and dosimetry. With a full day of talks, discussions and demonstrations, we’ll focus on the role of luminescence in archaeology, geology, medicine, environmental studies and forensics.

EGU General Assembly 2025
2025-04-27 - 2025-05-02 | Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The EGU General Assembly 2025 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.

4th Cave Monitoring Workshop
2025-05-06 - 2025-05-08 | Les Eyzies, France
The 4th CMW will provide the opportunity to present new research on methodology, innovative sensor developments, new technology and data reporting, best practice protocols for monitoring the hydrology and meteorology of cave systems. We will also focus on techniques ensuring data accuracy and long-term continuity.

PAGES 5th Young Scientists Meeting
2025-05-20 08:00 - 2025-05-21 17:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Shanghai, China
PAGES’ Open Science Meetings (OSM) and Young Science Meetings (YSM) are held every four years. They are designed to encourage interaction between scientists from all career levels, disciplines and regions.
In 2025, the OSM and YSM will be held in Shanghai, China and online.
01 December 2023: Call for Sessions Open

PAGES 7th Open Science Meeting
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-24 | Shanghai, China
PAGES’ Open Science Meetings (OSM) and Young Science Meetings (YSM) are held every four years. They are designed to encourage interaction between scientists from all career levels, disciplines and regions.
In 2025, the OSM and YSM will be held in Shanghai, China and online.
1 March 2025: Conference program, deadline for early registration

PalaeoArc 2025
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-05 | Tromsø, Norway
We are delighted to announce that registration and abstract submission are now open for the 6th (and final) PalaeoArc Conference.

Key information:

Location: Tromsø, Norway
Conference dates: 3-5th June 2025
Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof. Inger Greve Alsos and Dr Carl Regnéll
Low registration fees: 1000 NOK full price, 500 NOK for PhD, MSc and BSc students
Mid-conference excursion to the spectacular north Norwegian fjord and alpine landscape around Tromsø: 4th June
Icebreaker: 2nd June evening
Conference dinner: 3rd June evening (free for PhD, MSc and BSc students)

PalaeoArc is an international network research programme. The scientific goal of this six-year programme is to understand and explain the climatically-induced environmental changes in the Arctic that have taken place throughout the Quaternary and continue in the present-day.

Fjords in a changing climate
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-05 | Stalheim, Norway
An interdisciplinary workshop on the physical oceanography, biogeochemistry and biology of fjords in the past, present and future.

2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-06 | Sidney, Canada
A workshop focused on glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), ice sheets, sea-level change, and associated geodetic and geophysical observational constraints will be held at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS) and Pacific Geoscience Centre (PGC), located near Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, from 2-6 June 2025. The workshop aims to bring together 80-100 researchers of all career stages to discuss recent advances in the observations, analysis, and modelling of GIA.

TMS-CFFR Foraminifera Spring meeting 2025
2025-06-10 - 2025-06-13 | Gothenburg, Sweden
The title of the meeting will be “Foraminifera as a marine magnifying glass: tiny details, big insights from fossils to molecules” to reflect the various aspects of foraminiferal research ranging from paleo-approaches in climate and ocean research to experimental, AI-based and marine environmental studies, ecology, taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeny, as well as fossil applications in industry, forensics and archaeology. The conference will include a one-day field trip to the newly appointed UNESCO Global Geopark at Kinnekulle with its well-known Cambrian alum shales and Ordovician limestones (June 10), and two full days of scientific sessions filled with keynote, oral and poster presentations at the Wallenberg Centre (June 11 & 12). The TMS-CFFR Foraminifera Spring Meeting 2025 will be held in full hybrid mode for scientific sessions (June 11-12) to facilitate participation from overseas.

2nd PALSEA-Next workshop: Paleoconstraints on past sea-level changes
2025-06-18 - 2025-06-21 | Venice, Italy
This meeting will focus on the second objective of PALSEA-Next, which is to discuss, share, and plan the next steps for new and existing databases of paleo sea-level data. More specifically, the discussion session/workshop component of this meeting will focus on summarizing the work done by the community so far.

Second sedaDNA Scientific Society Meeting
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-26 | Tromsø, Norway
We are very pleased to again highlight that the date of the ‘Second sedaDNA Scientific Society Meeting” in Tromsø, Norway will be the 24-25th of June 2025 – so save those dates! ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES ON THE 10TH JANUARY 2025

11th IAS International Summer School of Sedimentology
2025-07-04 - 2025-07-12 | Bangor, Wales
NW Wales: 800 Ma of Earth History in 800 km2. From 4th – 12th July 2025 you will study various fluvial, shallow-marine, deep-marine, carbonate, and hydrothermal vent deposits, as well as sub-recent glacial landforms. Applications from IAS student members are open until 30th November 2024.

IGS Symposia: Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers
2025-07-20 - 2025-07-25 | Durham, UK
Ice streams and outlet glaciers are important components of an ice sheet’s mass balance and their behaviour directly impacts on sea level. These corridors of fast-flowing ice have been described as the ‘arteries’ of an ice sheet and their distinction is largely semantic, with ice streams bordered by slower-moving ice and outlet glaciers bordered by exposed bedrock at the surface. Since the recognition of the importance of these features in the 1970s, there has been a huge growth in their investigation. This began with the pioneering work on West Antarctic ice streams and has subsequently expanded to studies of ice streams and outlet glaciers in all of the world’s major ice sheets and ice masses. Of urgent concern for society are recent observations of dynamic changes in ice streams and outlet glaciers, which are thought to be responsible for an acceleration in global eustatic sea-level rise.
In parallel, those studying palaeo-ice sheet beds have long-recognised the distinctive geomorphology of ice streams in both marine and terrestrial settings. The study of palaeo-ice streams offers an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct their behaviour over time-scales much longer than modern observations permit, generating new insights into the spatial and temporal controls on their flow, including longer-term perspectives on retreat rates and thinning histories. The beds of palaeo-ice streams and outlet glaciers are also more accessible for investigation, leading to new insights regarding the mechanisms of sediment erosion, transport and deposition beneath fastflowing ice, including the formation of subglacial bedforms.

Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
2025-07-23 - 2025-08-08 | Urbino, Italy, Italy
Applications open until March 6th 2025. The summer school of the USSP consortium focuses on past climate dynamics with special emphasis on the analysis of long-term carbon cycling and its implications in the understanding of present and future climates. USSP integrates lectures, symposia, field trips, and exercises on the many different areas of paleoclimatology including biogeochemical cycling, paleoceanography, continental systems, and all aspects of deep-time climate modelling. These techniques and systems are explored through interactive discussions of Cretaceous OAEs, P/E hyperthermals, the Greenhouse-Icehouse transition, Neogene and Quaternary climate dynamics.

ACDC 2025
2025-08-17 - 2025-08-29 | Abisko, Sweden
Topic: Memory in the Climate System
Date: August 17 – 29th 2025
Location: Abisko Scientific Research Station, Northern Sweden
Application: Applications will open late December 2024.
Target: Advanced graduate students (PhDs).

Analytical Paleobiology School 2025
2025-08-18 - 2025-09-05 | Nuremberg, Germany
Our 3-week school aims to introduce graduate students (preferably PhD candidates, masters with exception) to a range of analytical methods that are foundational to or at the cutting edge of paleobiological research. Topics, taught by rotating expert instructors, will include e.g., probability theory, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, resampling techniques, correlation and regression, multivariate statistics, methods of measuring biodiversity, morphometrics, phylogenetic methods, spatial and time-series analyses and other related topics. The school will also provide practical hands-on training in statistical programming and data analysis and visualization in R.

Peribaltic Symposium 2025
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-29 | Kloster Michaelstein, Germany
Quaternary Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironments and Geoarchaeology in central Germany
Between August 25-29, 2025 the Peribaltic WG field symposium will be held at Kloster Michaelstein near the Harz Mountains in central Germany. The subsequent excursions will cover areas of the surrounding Federal States of Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony.

15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography
2025-08-31 - 2025-09-05 | Bengaluru, India
We are thrilled to welcome you to Bengaluru (India) for the 15th International Conference on Palaeoceanography (ICP15) . We are looking forward to hearing about your latest research on past ocean, climate and Earth System processes over a range of timescales. Both proxy- and modelling-based approaches are welcome. The aim of the conference is to gain a better understanding of how our oceans and climate have evolved in the past, what are the drivers of those changes and their relevance to future changes, how those drivers of change have operated, interacted and influenced the past climate and how novel approaches are being developed and applied to unravel process-based knowledge to contribute to the future climate predictions. We welcome world experts and newcomers in the field of Palaeoceanography. For the newcomers, this is a unique conference that occurs every 3-4 years and voted by the members of the community to become a host. You will have an opportunity to showcase your science and select the next ICP host during the conference. This conference provides an opportunity to present and debate ground-breaking new observations while creating a friendly environment for fostering discussions of pressing challenges and new scientific discoveries.

Sea Level and Coastal Change Conference (SLaCC)
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-10 | York, UK
We invite abstract submissions via this Google Form (deadline 15th August) on any aspect of coastal and sea-level research including palaeo sea level, coastal geomorphology, blue carbon, extreme waves, contemporary processes, management and more. Presentations from postgraduate and early career researchers are particularly welcome. A supportive and welcoming environment will make the conference an ideal opportunity for both first-time presenters and more experienced academics and practitioners to share their work and connect with others in the field.

Core Logging School COLOS
2025-09-14 - 2025-09-18 | Chmielnik, Poland
The Core Logging School CoLoS provides exposure to the theoretical background and practical skills of sedimentological borehole core logging and is designed for the Geoscientists at various stages of professional career. The CoLoS Programme integrates theory, examples of applications and practical exercises and includes one day of theoretical classes and three days of practical training in the core depository.

IAG Regional Conference on Geomorphology, Romania
2025-09-16 - 2025-09-18 | Timisoara, Romania
Geomorphology for society: challenges and opportunities. 16-18 September, 2025, Timisoara, Romania

Ice Core Analysis Techniques (ICAT) PhD school-2025
2025-09-22 - 2025-09-26 | Copenhagen, Denmark
The ICAT PhD school (2 ECTS) is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice core analysis or are users of ice core data (glaciologists, oceanographers, climate modelers, earth scientists).
ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects.
This course will educate young scientists regarding new methods developed for the analysis of ice cores with regard to climate research, with dedicated theoretical and laboratory exercise sessions.
