Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to announce the third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Geochronology (https://www.grc.org/geochronology-conference/2025/). This GRC conference will be held August 17-22, 2025 at Sunday River, Maine.
The theme of the 2025 GRC is the "Timing, Tempo and Drivers of Earth's Climate." We have a lineup of confirmed discussion leaders and speakers, which is provided below. These include geochronologists as well as scientists whose work is heavily influenced by geochronology. The GRC provides an immersive experience for five days with colleagues in a collegial environment. We hope you will join us next August. There is a limit of 200 participants, so apply to be a poster presenter soon at the website listed above.
The 2025 GRC will be preceded by a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) (https://www.grc.org/geochronology-grs-conference/2025/) planned by and for students and early career researchers. The Geochronology GRS will run August 16-17 at Sunday River, and will include a mentoring session highlighting different career paths and how to overcome common challenges faced by early-career researchers. We hope that group leaders will encourage and support your research groups to attend both the GRS and GRC. There will be an application process, to be announced later, for funding to support attendance from students and postdocs. We also plan to continue the mentoring program begun at the 2023 Geochronology GRC to foster new connections for early career researchers.
Additional funding is available for a limited number of participants from predominantly undergraduate serving institutions; please contact the meeting chairs for information on how to apply for this funding.
Sincerely,
GRC Geochronology 2025 Chairs
Annie Bauer, Klaudia Kuiper, Marissa Tremblay, Chris Spencer
GRS Geochronology 2025 Chairs
Francisco Apen, Peter Davidson
GRC on Geochronology, sessions and presenters:
Climate Extremes in Earth History
Discussion Leader: Darren Mark, SUERC – Center for the Isotope Sciences
Jim Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz
Lyle Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jenn Kasbohm, Carnegie Science Earth & Planets Laboratory
The Role of Climate in Mass Extinctions
Discussion Leader: Blair Schoene, Princeton University
Feifei Zhang, Nanjing University
Sara Callegaro, University of Bologna
Climate and the Solid Earth System
Discussion Leader: TBD
Jeremy Caves-Rugenstein, Colorado State University
Thomas Gernon, University of Southampton
Andrea Burke, University of St Andrews
Orbital Forcing and Pacing of Climate
Discussion Leader: Matthias Sinnesael, Trinity College Dublin
Mingsong Li, Peking University
Margriet Lantink, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Westerhold, University of Bremen MARUM
Planetary Habitability
Discussion Leader: Vickie Bennett, Australian National University
Eva Stueken, University of St Andrews
Andrey Bekker, University of California Riverside
Sandra Siljeström, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Human-induced Climate Change: the Anthropocene
Discussion Leader: TBD
Patricia Corcoran, University of Western Ontario
Sloan Coats, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Millennial-scale Climate Variability
Discussion Leader: Kathleen Johnson, University of California Irvine
Jerry McManus, Columbia University
Manuel Chevalier, University of Bonn
Hominin Evolution and Climate
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Niespolo, Princeton University
Kevin Uno, Harvard University
Asfawossen Asrat, Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Glacier and Landscape Records of Past Climate
Discussion Leader: Ryan Venturelli, Colorado School of Mines
Taylor Schildgen, GFZ-Potsdam
Sarah Shackleton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Power Hour
Host: Bereket Haileab, Carleton College
Planned Program: GRS in Geochronology 2025
Keynote Session: John Higgins, Princeton University
Tempo of Biological and Landscape Evolution (speakers TBD)
The Impact of Deep Earth Processes on Climate (speakers TBD)
Professional Development for Early-Career Geoscientists
Courtney Sprain, University of Florida
Emily Cahoon, Isotopx Ltd.
Perach Nuriel, University of Geneva
Hayden Miller, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Marissa Tremblay
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