Hello everyone!
As part of my ongoing project, Geoscientists' Voices (supported by the AGU Voices for Science program), I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Prof. Michael Wagreich from the University of Vienna, Austria. As a world-renowned stratigrapher, Michael is at the forefront of the global Anthropocene debate, driving an innovative vision for integrating deep-time geology with modern human environmental history.
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In our conversation, Michael shares his academic journey from a childhood spark in Austria to the global stage of stratigraphy. We dive into the controversy behind the March 2024 rejection of the Anthropocene epoch, and how analyzing physical technofossils-like plastic bottles dug from Danube flood layers-redefines our timeline. He also pulls back the curtain on the actual process of research, offering crucial wisdom on navigating early-career resilience, the brutal element of luck in academia, and deep-time philosophy.
Aleksei Nelaev
AGU Voices for Science cohort member
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekseinelaev/