Project 2309: Palaeoscience in the Carpathian – Black Sea Region (CARPCLIM)

GCBS 2023 can be regarded as a follow-up event on the previous conferences and workshops organized by our team from 2011 to 2022 which have provided a good framework for sharing research and collaboration for further investigation of the Carpathian – Lower Danube – Balkan region.

Abstract

In the 7^th edition, we proposed an interdisciplinary scientific event focusing on past and current climate and environmental changes in the Carpathian and Black Sea Region since the Last Glacial Maximum. The conference aims to provide more insight into the most recent advances in geoscience and paleoscience and to support regional collaboration in research, which is still understated despite the fact that significant steps have been taken in recent years.

This scientific event was an initiative of the University of Suceava (Applied Sciences Doctoral School) in collaboration with

the Geoconcept Association of Applied Geography, supported by the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) and Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization (MCID) and endorsed by Carpathian Climate and Environment Working Group-CarpClim (PAGES), Science for Carpathians (S4C) and the Carpathian Convention (CC).

The objectives of the meeting were:

• to establish the Carpathian Working Group as a framework for collaboration in paleoclimate/paleoenvironmental reconstruction;
• creating a database of relevant multiproxies at regional and continental scale and include regional reconstruction in global climate models;
• to publish the contribution of the conference in a special volume;
• discussing a framework for future collaborations and synergies of the group.

Project Leaders:

• Marcel Mindrescu, University of Suceava, Romania