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The SQS currently has four Working Groups the task of which is the:
In progress - Formalisation of Global Stratotype section and Points (GSSP) for the Lower/Middle and for the Middle/Upper subseries/subepoch boundaries of the Pleistocene Series/Epoch. The formal nomenclature for the subseries/subepoch divisions of the Pleistocene will be Lower/Early, Middle/Mid-, and Upper/Late.

November 2008 - Formalisation of a GSSP for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch.
June 2009 - A new working group was established to examine the possibility of recognising an Anthropocene division either within the Holocene or separated from it.
November 2009 - A new working group is currently being established to determine the utility of formally defining short-term events during glacial periods.
  • Pleistocene / Holocene boundary working group
  • Middle / Late Pleistocene boundary working group
  • Early /Middle Pleistocene boundary working group
  • Anthropocene working group

Working Group on the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary


convenor: Professor M.J.C. Walker (Lampeter)

members:
INTIMATE group members

ngrip1Basal boundary GSSP of the Holocene Series, defined in the NGRIP ice core Greenland (Walker et al. 2008, Episodes; 2009 Journal of Quaternary Science) dated to 11.7 ka.

Working Group on the Middle/Late Pleistocene Boundary



convenor: Professor Thomas Litt (Bonn, Germany) t.litt@uni-bonn.de

members:
Dr. Art Bettis (Iowa, USA) art-bettis@uiowa.edu
Dr. Aleid Bosch (Zwolle, The Netherlands) A.Bosch@nitg.tno.nl
Dr. Andrey Dodonov (Moscow, Russia)
Dr. Philip Gibbard (Cambridge, England) plg1@cam.ac.uk
Prof. Liu Jiaqi (Beijing, China) liujiaqi2001@yahoo.com.cn
Prof.Peter Kershaw (Clayton, Australia) Peter.Kershaw@arts.monash.edu.au
Prof.Wighart von Koenigswald (Bonn, Germany) koenigswald@uni-bonn.de
Dr. Jerry McManus (Wood's Hole, USA) jmcmanus@whoi.edu
Prof. Tim Partridge (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Dr. Charles Turner (Milton Keynes, UK) c.turner@open.ac.uk convenor:


Definition of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene boundary P. L. Gibbard In: Global and Planetary Change
Volume 36, Issue 3 , 1 April 2003, Pages 201-208 THE EEMIAN INTERGLACIAL: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

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Bonn October 2005: Charles Turner, Phil Gibbard, Thomas Litt, Art Bettis, Aleid Bosch Tim Partridge, Peter Kershaw, Phil Gibbard, Charles Turner, Andrey Dodonov Photographs by Andrey Dodonov.

Working Group on the Early/Middle Pleistocene Boundary


convenor: Professor Brad Pillans (Canberra)

members:
Dr Thijs Van Kolfshoten (Leiden),
Dr Andrei Dodonov (Moscow),
Professor Anastasia Markova (Moscow),
Professor Jiaqi Lui (Beijing),
Dr Charles Turner (Cambridge),
Professor Luc Lourens (Utrecht),
Dr Martin Head (Cambridge),
Dr Cesare Ravazzi (Bergamo),
Dr Craig Feibel (New Jersey)
Dr Tom Meijer (Utrecht),
Professor Hisao Kumai (Osaka, Japan)

Working Group on the Anthropocene

convenor: Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (Leicester)

potential members:

Paul Crutzen (Mainz)
Erle Ellis (Baltimore)
Mike Ellis (BGS)
Philip Gibbard (Cambridge; Chair SQS)
Alan Haywood (Leeds)
Andrew Kerr (Cardiff)
Simon Price (BGS)
Bill Ruddiman (Virginia)
Will Steffen (ANU)
Mike Walker (Lampeter)
Mark Williams (Leicester)
An Zhisheng (Xi'an)
Eric O'Dada (Nairobi)

details:

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