Mitteilungen

Herewith, we would like to inform you that the DEUQUA 2026 abstract submission deadline (15^th of May, 2026) has been extended to the 30^th of May, 2026. We are looking forwards to your exciting contributions and we are delighted to welcome you in Freiburg from the 28^th of September to the 2^nd of October 2026. For more information and to register or to submit your abstract, please visit our website: https://www.deuqua2026.de/registration-and-abstracts

Best wishes,

Your DEUQUA Organisation Team

P.S.: Do not miss our “Environmental Records and Landscape Change” workshop at the DEUQUA that aims at providing a synthesis of climate and environmental change in central Europe (and adjacent areas) from 60,000 to 11,700 years through comparing different archives and time-slices. The workshop will focus on the following topics: Glacial Records, Loess-Palaeosol-Sequences, Lake and Peat Records, Speleothem Records, Climate Modelling. Scientists with different backgrounds are more than welcome to contribute to the discussion and to share their perspectives and ideas for cooperation possibilities.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the abstract submission for the 4th PAGES Floods Working Group Workshop entitled “Hydrometeorological extreme events and past floods in changing environments. From small mountain headwaters to large transboundary basins and coastal regions” is now open. You can find on the PAGES Floods WG website (click here) the flyer (click here) and registration/abstract submission form (click here). Registration is free but limited to 50 participants. The field trip fee is approximately 80.- Euros.

The workshop will take place in Timișoara, Romania, from 15 to 18 September 2026. The conference aims to harmonize historical and paleoflood evidence and databases across continents, borders and disciplines by combining documentary, geomorphological, and proxy data from rivers, lakes and coastal areas. A breakout group will promote connections between well-documented Central European archives and less-explored areas to the southeast and east. This will foster interdisciplinary dialogue and strengthen collaboration across the Carpathian–Danubian–Balkan region. Hosted by the West University of Timișoara, the workshop will include conference and poster presentations, keynotes, plenary discussions, and a one-day field trip to flood-prone areas along the highly engineered Bega and Mureș/Maros rivers in the Pannonian Sedimentary Basin. The focus of the field trip will be historical floods and the long-term geomorphic response to flood mitigation and flow regulation measures in the past. For any further information please contact Lothar Schulte ([email protected]; FWG SSC) and/or Ioana Persoiu ([email protected]; Local Organizer).

Abstract submission will open March 17^st and close May 18^th 2026. We applied to PAGES for funding to support the travel of early career researchers and scientists from low- and middle-income countries. Further information will be provided in June 2026.

Attendees from other regions than the Schengen Agreement are kindly asked to consult the visa requirements to enter Romania. Applications should be submitted at your earliest convenience - at least 4 months prior to the conference.

With kind regards,

Lothar and Daniela

On behalf of the FWG SSC and local workshop organizers

Am Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie (LBEG) in Niedersachsen ist eine Stelle im Bereich der Geologischen Landesaufnahme Quartär im Referat L2.4 „Geologische Grundlagen“ ausgeschrieben. Alle Einzelheiten finden Sie im PDF, das unter diesem Text zum Download zur Verfügung steht. Bei Fragen zu der Stelle wenden Sie sich bitte an Dr. Robert Schöner (Kontaktdaten siehe PDF). Der Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1.4.2026.

GM6.2/CL1.2/HS13/SSS3: Dryland evolution: Paleoenvironmental, geomorphic and geoarchaeological perspectives

Conveners: Hans von Suchodoletz, Janek Walk, Joel Roskin, Abi Stone, Markus Fuchs

Currently arid to sub-humid regions are home to >40% of the world’s population, and many prehistoric and historic cultures developed in these regions. Due to the high sensitivity of drylands to also small-scale environmental changes and anthropogenic activities, ongoing geomorphological processes under the intensified climatic and human pressure of the Anthropocene, but also the Late Quaternary geomorphological and paleoenvironmental evolution as recorded in sediment archives, are becoming increasingly relevant for geological, geomorphological, paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and geoarchaeological research. Dryland research is constantly boosted by methodological advances, and especially by emerging linkages with other climatic and geomorphic systems that allow using dryland areas as indicator-regions of global environmental changes.
This session aims to pool contributions dealing with past to recent geomorphological processes and environmental changes spanning the entire Quaternary until today, as well as with all types of sedimentary and morphological archives in dryland areas (dunes, loess, slope deposits, fluvial sediments, alluvial fans, lake and playa sediments, desert pavements, soils, palaeosols etc.) studied on different spatial and temporal scales. Besides case studies on archives and landscapes from individual regions and review studies, cross-disciplinary, methodical and conceptual contributions are especially welcome in this session, e.g., dealing with the special role of aeolian, fluvial, gravitational and biological processes in dryland environments and their preservation in deposits and landforms, the role of such processes for past and present societies, methods to obtain chronological frameworks and process rates, and emerging geo-technologies.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th January 2026, 13.00 CET.

GM4.4/SSS3: New perspectives in geoarchaeology: human agency, landscape change and how they shaped the late Quaternary

Conveners: Guido Stefano Mariani, Julia Meister, Mirijam Zickel, Kathleen Nicoll, Hans von Suchodoletz

Human activity became a major player of global climatic and environmental change in the course of the late Quaternary, during the Anthropocene. Consequently, it is crucial to understand these changes through the study of former human-environmental interactions at different spatial and temporal scales. Documenting the diversity of human responses and adaptations to climate, landscapes, ecosystems, natural disasters and the changing natural resources availability in different regions of our planet, provides valuable opportunities to learn from the past. To do so, cross-disciplinary studies in Geoarchaeology offer a chance to better understand the archaeological records and landscapes in context of human culture and the hydroclimate-environment nexus over time. This session seeks related interdisciplinary papers and specific geoarchaeological case-studies that deploy various approaches and tools to address the reconstruction of former human-environmental interactions from the Palaeolithic period through the modern. Topics related to records of the Anthropocene from Earth and archaeological science perspectives are welcome. Furthermore, contributions may include (but are not limited to) insights about how people have coped with environmental disasters or abrupt changes in the past; defining sustainability thresholds for farming or resource exploitation; distinguishing the baseline natural and human contributions to environmental changes. Ultimately, we would like to understand how strategies of human resilience and innovation can inform our modern policies for addressing the challenges of the emerging Anthropocene, a time frame dominated by human modulation of surface geomorphological processes and hydroclimate.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th January 2026, 13.00 CET.

Am Lehrstuhl für Geomorphologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle in Vollzeit als Akademische Rätin / Rat auf Zeit (m/w/d) zu besetzen.
Die Einstellung erfolgt im Beamtenverhältnis auf Zeit (Bes. Gr. A 13) für die Dauer von drei Jahren mit der Möglichkeit der Verlängerung um weitere drei Jahre. Es besteht grundsätzlich die Möglichkeit der Teilzeitbeschäftigung. Die Stelle dient zur Forschung im Themenfeld „Geomorphologie im Klimawandel“ und zur Durchführung eines Habilitationsprojektes. Vorzugsweise wird das Habilitationsprojekt im Rahmen des o.g. Themenfelds durchgeführt, es kann aber auch einen anderen Schwerpunkt umfassen. Die Lehrverpflichtung beträgt 5 SWS. Die Erarbeitung von Drittmittelanträgen wird erwartet. Eine Verlängerung der Qualifikationsstelle um 3 Jahre auf insgesamt 6 Jahre zum Abschluss der Habilitation erfolgt bei erfolgreicher Annahme als Habilitandin bzw. Habilitand (m/w/d) und vorbehaltlich einer Mentoratsvereinbarung.

Bewerbung bis 6.1.2026.

Alle Einzelheiten können dem bereitgestellten PDF entnommen werden.