Members of the Anthropocene Working Group

Current Membership

AWG members are a diverse group of scientists and academics studying the impact of recent human activity on Planet Earth.

Jan Zalasiewicz

Co-Chair, University of Leicester, UK

Mark Williams

Co-Chair, University of Leicester, UK

Simon Turner

Secretary, University College London, UK

List of Current Members

Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame,USA. 
E-mail: thomasjna@aol.com 

Anthony Barnosky, University of California, USA
E-mail: barnosky@berkeley.edu 

Alejandro Cearreta, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
E-mail: alejandro.cearreta@ehu.eus 

Kim Cohen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
E-mail: K.M.Cohen@uu.nl

Andrew Cundy, University of Southampton, UK 
E-mail: A.Cundy@noc.soton.ac.uk

Agnieszka Gałuszka Jan Kochanowski University, Poland
E-mail: agnieszka.galuszka@ujk.edu.pl 

Jacques Grinevald, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland 
E-mail: jacques.grinevald@graduateinstitute.ch 

Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland  
E-mail: barbara.fialkiewicz-koziel@amu.edu.pl 

Liz Hadly, Stanford University, USA
E-mail: hadly@stanford.edu 

Irka Hajdas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail: hajdas@phys.ethz.ch 

Martin Head, Brock University, Canada
E-mail: mjhead@brocku.ca

Eva Horn, University of Vienna, Austria
E-mail: eva.horn@univie.ac.at 

Xiaolin Hou, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
E-mail: houxl@ieecas.cn 

Juliana Ivar do Sul, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany
E-mail: julianasul@gmail.com 

Catherine Jeandel, Universit. de Toulouse, France 
E-mail: catherine.jeandel@univ-tlse3.fr 

Michinobu Kuwae, Ehime University, Japan 
E-mail: kuwae.michinobu.mc@ehime-u.ac.jp>

Reinhold Leinfelder, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 
E-mail: reinhold.leinfelder@fu-berlin.de 

Francine Mccarthy, Brock University, Canada
E-mail: fmccarthy@brocku.ca 

John McNeill, Georgetown University, USA
E-mail: mcneillj@georgetown.edu 

Lydia Olaka, Technical University of Kenya, Kenya
E-mail: lydiaolaka@tukenya.ac.ke 

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, USA
E-mail: oreskes@fas.harvard.edu 

John Palmesino, Territorial Agency, UK
E-mail: office@territorialagency.com 

Buhm Soon Park, Center for Anthropocene Studies, South Korea
E-mail: parkb@kaist.edu 

Clément Poirier, Université de Caen Normandie, France
E-mail: clement.poirier@unicaen.fr 

Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Germany
E-mail: renn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de 

Dan Richter, Duke University, USA 
E-mail: drichter@duke.edu Rose, 

Libby Robin, Australian National University, Australia
E-mail: libbydeq@gmail.com

Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Territorial Agency, UK 
E-mail: office@territorialagency.com 

Neil Rose, University College London, UK
E-mail: n.rose@ucl.ac.uk 

Yoshiki Saito, Shimane University, Japan 
E-mail: ysaito@soc.shimane-u.ac.jp 

Bill Shotyk, University of Alberta, Canada
E-mail: shotyk@ualberta.ca 

Sverker Sorlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
E-mail: sverker.sorlin@abe.kth.se 

Colin Summerhayes, Scott Polar Research Institute, UK
E-mail: cps32@cam.ac.uk 

Jaia Syvitski, University of Colorado, USA
E-mail: jai.syvitski@colorado.edu 

Davor Vidas, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway 
E-mail: dvidas@fni.no 

Michael Wagreich, University of Vienna, Austria
E-mail: michael.wagreich@univie.ac.at 

Colin Waters, University of Leicester, UK 
E-mail: cw398@leicester.ac.uk 

Scott Wing, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, USA.
E-mail: WINGS@si.edu 

Nathanäel Wallenhorst, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, France.
E-mail: nathanael.wallenhorst@uco.fr 

Han Yongming, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
E-mail: yongming@ieecas.cn 

An Zhisheng, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
E-mail: anzs@loess.llqg.ac.cn

Weijian Zhou, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
E-mail: weijian@loess.llqg.ac.cn 

Jens Zinke, University of Leicester, UK
E-mail: jz262@leicester.ac.uk 

Anthropocene Working Group

The Anthropocene unquestionably represents geological time, its transformations having already moved the Earth System beyond Holocene norms towards an irreversible future trajectory (https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2023/023025)