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

Current 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 

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, 

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 

Mark Williams, University of Leicester, UK
E-mail: mri@leicester.ac.uk 

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

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

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 

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)