GRC and GRS on Geochronology 2025 – support for students and early career researchers!

Opportunity for funding to support the attendance of students and early-career professionals at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Geochronology and the accompanying 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Geochronology. This GRC conference will be focused on “Timing, Tempo, and Drivers of Earth’s Climate” and will be held August 17-22, 2025 at Sunday River, Maine. The GRS is focused on students and early-career researchers and will immediately precede the GRC on August 16-17, 2025. The abstract submission deadline for the GRS is May 11, 2025.

You do NOT need to be a geochronologist to attend; the intention of the selected theme is to spark interdisciplinary discussion between climate scientists and geochronologists. Examples of broader discussion topics are:

●     What outstanding questions about the drivers of past climate change on our planet require a more detailed understanding of the timing and tempo of climatic change, and how can this more detailed understanding be facilitated by the generation of new geochronology data or the integration of different types of existing geochronology data?

●     Records of Earth’s past climate come from a variety of archives, such as sedimentary successions on land in the oceans, ice cores, speleothems. How can geochronology be leveraged to bring together datasets from these archives to achieve a more complete picture of what the Earth’s climate was like during key intervals of the geologic past?

●     The Earth’s climate exhibits variation over a variety of timescales. What are the limits of our existing geochronometers in terms of being able to resolve these timescales? Over what timescales and during what time periods in Earth history do we need higher precision absolute geochronology?

Funding is available to cover registration fees (including lodging and meals) and/or travel for a limited number of students and early-career participants. Applications will be evaluated by a committee that will consider the applicant’s ability to contribute to science of the GRC/GRS, and the relevance and quality of their abstract(s).

To apply for this funding, please fill out this Google Form by April 15, 2025. You will be requested to provide:

Discussion Leader: Darren Mark, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Jim Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz

Lyle Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jenn Kasbohm, Carnegie Institution

Discussion Leader: Blair Schoene, Princeton University

Feifei Zhang, Nanjing University

Sara Callegaro, University of Bologna

Discussion Leader: Emily Cooperdock, Brown University (pending)

Jeremy Caves-Rugenstein, Colorado State University

Thomas Gernon, University of Southampton

Andrea Burke, University of St. Andrews

Discussion Leader: Matthias Sinnesael, Trinity College Dublin

Mingsong Li, Peking University

Margriet Lantink, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thomas Westerhold, University of Bremen

Discussion Leader: Vickie Bennett, Australian National University

Eva Stueken, St. Andrews University

Andrey Bekker, University of California Riverside

Sandra Siljeström, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Discussion Leader: Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona

Sloan Coats, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Kim Cobb, Brown University (pending)

Discussion Leader: Kathleen Johnson, University of California Irvine

Jerry McManus, Columbia University

Manuel Chevalier, University of Bonn

Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Niespolo, Princeton University

Kevin Uno, Harvard University

Asfawossen Asrat, Botswana International University of Science and Technology

Discussion Leader: Ryan Venturelli, Colorado School of Mines

Taylor Schildgen, GFZ-Potsdam

Sarah Shackleton, Princeton University

Host: Bereket Haileab, Carleton College

Keynote Session: John Higgins, Princeton University

Courtney Sprain, University of Florida

Emily Cahoon, Isotopx Ltd.

Perach Nuriel, University of Geneva

Hayden Miller, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Science sessions (speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts):

-Tempo of Biological and Landscape Evolution

-The Impact of Deep Earth Processes on Climate