Projects

The PyPEN-REP project will unite a diverse group of experts and stakeholders—including palaeoecologists, archaeologists, Paraguayan botanists and ecologists, environmental NGOs, Indigenous community representatives, government agencies, and binational organisations. Together, they will explore the opportunities and…

The PAST project aims at developing a European database of Late Glacial palaeosoils in aeolian coversands and dunes as a tool to evaluate paleoenvironmental changes.

The single-year project WHoRLS supports the organisation of a workshop aimed at advancing research on Holocene sea-level changes in the Southern Hemisphere.

The three-day workshop was tailored for postgraduate students and early career researchers interested in investigating the geological record of Holocene coastal disasters.

European Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation is an ongoing research topic and serves as a base for mapping and unravelling local to regional Quaternary sequences.

PHADMA project targets the global spatial and temporal distribution of past hydrological extremes, to improve the quality of risk assessments, and modern flood event attribution.

The PALSEA_next project aims to better define observational constraints on past sea-level change and improve our understanding of ice-sheet responses to rapid climate change.

The aim of the project is to bring together researchers to gain a better understanding of the relationships between climate change and hominin evolution and cultural development in Africa.

The Mystery of the Ancient Soils is an engaging and educational illustrated story developed for children and young readers.

This project brings together Quaternary researchers and students for field symposium to explore the Quaternary sediments, landscapes, and early settlement history in western Estonia.

ONSEA aims at creating a large interdisciplinary community of PhD, DCR, ECR and SS, sharing common interest in the study of the geomorphological evolution and the human occupation of the coastlines during the Holocene.

Peatlands are vital carbon sinks, helping regulate the Earth’s climate by storing large amounts of organic matter. However, they are increasingly threatened by human activities like urban expansion and land use change.

This project brings together experts working in India, Africa, Arabia, and SW and E Asia to address major issues related to multiple questions on the ‘Out of Africa’ story as related to chronology, palaeoenvironments and…

Improving understanding of the techniques involved in the study of, and processes affecting fluvial environments, and the evidence for human activity in those environments

This project develops a southern hemisphere-focused community of practice on understanding the nature, properties and spatio-temporal patterns of warm intervals in the southern hemisphere during the Quaternary.

The PMIP-carbon community is drafting a shared science plan and experimental design in order to perform coupled climate-carbon simulations within the next phase of PMIP.

INTIMATE (INTegrating Ice core, Marine and TErrestrial records) is a large, diverse, international community of palaeoclimatologists interested in better understanding abrupt and extreme climate changes.

The project titled “Study of the Recent Quaternary of the South Coast of Benin, Based on Archaeological and Botanical Data” received financial support from INQUA under the “Single-Year Project” category to facilitate fieldwork and laboratory…

The first in-person meeting of International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 725: ‘Forecasting Coastal Change’ took place from 21st to 27th October 2023 in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The scientific aim of this meeting was to…

Current global changes raise pressing environmental questions linked to the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. With increasing rates of environmental changes, and rising abiotic and biotic novelty, securing the services ecosystems can provide will…

The LEM project, led by Trina Bose from Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, India, aims to map and model LULC indicators in different ecological regions of the monsoon to quantify modern analogues of climate variations….

The “INQUA MARE: INtegrated QUAternary MArine REcord at Sensitive Latitudes” project brought together researchers studying Holocene sediment records from Arctica and Antarctica, two regions linked by thermohaline circulation and atmospheric teleconnection throughout the Tropics.

Animal teeth are a valuable tool for investigating Quaternary ecosystems. They are durable and diagnostic elements of mammalian species, commonly represented in Quaternary fossil sites.

The pSESYNTH project, led by Xavi Benito of IRTA, Spain, focuses on building a synthesis database of past human-environmental systems in the Global South. Several online meetings conducted by the team facilitated discussions on how…

An ECR-led project to link Tsunamis with People and sustainable development.

SPLOSH project is focused on raising awareness and developing networks from the fields of humanities and science working on submerged palaeolandscapes of the Southern Hemisphere.

The overarching goal of PALSEA is to improve our understanding of past sea level change to inform predictions of future sea level and cryosphere evolution.

The NEPTUNE project started on March 30th 2020, in the framework of the INQUA CMP commission activities for the purpose of creating an interdisciplinary working group of young scientists aimed at developing multidisciplinary techniques to…

Holocene Global Landuse (HoLa) was an interdisciplinary working group dedicated to reconstructing land use across the Holocene through a global, comparative perspective.