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  • Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference
    Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference

    A joint IUBS-INQUA conference will be organized in China in November 2025.

  • Shackleton Conference 2025 – Submerged Quaternary Landscapes
    Shackleton Conference 2025 – Submerged Quaternary Landscapes

    The fourth Shackleton Conference will take place at Burlington House, London, on 22 September 2025. The conference will focus on vanished landscapes, the seafloor as a geological palimpsest retaining sketchy evidence for Quaternary landscapes that…

  • INQUA 2027 Talk Series
    INQUA 2027 Talk Series

    Join us for an engaging session with Prof. Jeffery R. Stone (Indiana State University, USA) discussing Holocene marine flooding & ecosystems of Lake Izabal, Guatemala scheduled for Saturday, 26 July 2025  at 6:00 PM IST…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

Project 2004 my: Terminations Five to Zero (T5-0)

Abstract

Understanding past glacial terminations requires high-precision paleoenvironmental records and accurate Earth system modelling to analyse interactions among climate, oceans, ice sheets, the biosphere, and the carbon cycle. Precise chronologies are crucial for comparing observational records, validating models, and simulating key climate forcings, particularly before Termination I when radiocarbon dating is ineffective. While Terminations I and II have received recent chronological reviews, Terminations III–V lack comparable assessments. This highlights the need for updated, integrative expertise to refine chronologies by combining both data-driven and model-derived spatial patterns. The success of the International Focus Group’s (IFG) goals hinges on robust chronologies from Termination V to the present.

Scientific questions:

1) What is the fastest rate of warming observed during the past 5 terminations, and what caused it? What mechanisms of ice sheet change drove the fastest rates of sea level rise in the past 5 Terminations?

2) How well do climate models capture the temporal (and spatial) scales of environmental change during terminations inferred from paleoclimate data sets?

Project Leaders:

  • Ruza Ivanovic, University of Leeds, UK
  • Lorraine Lisiecki,University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • Heather Stoll, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Publications

INQUA serves the Quaternary Research community by supporting the publication of two scientific journals published by Elsevier: Quaternary International (QI), a hybrid Journal launched in 1989 that publishes 36 volumes/year, Quaternary Environments and Humans (QEH),…

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