Ce carnet a vocation à mettre en lumière l’actualité autour de l’étude de l’environnement, du climat et de l’histoire de l’Homme au cours du Quaternaire. Il est directement relié à aux activités de l’association AFEQ – CNF INQUA, un groupe pluridisciplinaire et international qui rassemble des représentants de tous les champs scientifiques concernés par cette période : archéologues, botanistes,paléo climatologues, géographes, géologues, géophysiciens, géochimistes, paléontologues, paléobotanistes, pédologues, et zoologistes. Ce groupe assure un lien avec la communauté scientifique internationale. Ce carnet vise aussi à être un espace d’échanges entre les adhérents de cette l’association et une fenêtre vers les thématiques voisines par la mise en ligne d’informations (colloques, prix de thèse, subventions étudiants). Ce carnet est la version anglaise du carnet « AFEQ » existant.
Patrice Wuscher, the AFEQ treasurer, will defend his thesis on Friday December 17, 2021 at 3 p.m., room 6, Faculty of Geography, 3, rue de l'Argonne, 67000 Strasbourg Loess, alluvium and slope deposits of the Rhine Fossé in Alsace from the Eemien to the Anthropocene: Pedosedimentary approach, geomor...
The next AFEQ-CNF INQUA General Assembly will be held on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. at the Société Géologique de France, at 77 rue Claude Bernard (Paris 5th arrondissement). Participation is free and open to all. Only members up to date with their 2021 membership fee will have the right...
The next AFEQ-CNF INQUA conference will be held from March 14 to 18, 2022 in Strasbourg and will be entitled "Q13 - Paleoclimate changes, landscape evolution and human societies: from sedimentary basins to industrial landscapes”. Organized by the Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement (LIVE, UMR7362)...
The AFEQ 2019 2020 newsletter summarizes two years of activity of AFEQ - CNF INQUA and illustrates the many initiatives to come and the prospects for 2021 and 2022. Thank you to all of you for helping to revitalize the life of the association! Note that due to the changing health situation, the excu...
The next AFEQ excursion will take place from 20th to 22nd May 2021 in the eastern Pyrenees and is entitled: The impact of Pleistocene environmental changes on the evolution of landscapes. 10 years of research in Quaternary and Geomorphology in the Eastern Pyrenees. The detailed program is avail...
The Quaternary millionth map of metropolitan France proposed here presents the geological polygons of Quaternary-age formations of metropolitan France as well as certain remarkable sites (prehistoric, of climatic interest, paleontological, palynological) that have been the subject of a comprehensive...
The new Board of AFEQ - CNF INQUA has met and presents its organization chart to you: We are ready for a dynamic animation of the association in the next two years, and are preparing the entry of the Quaternary Journal in the Premium pack of Open Edition at the beginning of 2021.
No gift ideas for Christmas? The AFEQ is here for you! You can order our famous and beautiful t-shirts and have them delivered to your home! Prices: T-shirts for men and women €15 (€35 for three); children's t-shirts €10 (€25 for three). Full details and colors in the attached poster. For more infor...
4-day training course in geochronology from 8 till 11October 2019 The first three days (Tue-Thu) involve training on geochronological techniques and age-depth modelling given by experts in the field. The theoretical part will be followed by a field excursion onFriday, where sampling techniques for C...
Dedicated to the publications of the Q11 symposium held in Orléans in 2018, it first takes us to the Bao Bolon Valley in Senegal for a paleoenvironmental study of the second half of the Holocene (Stern et al., 2019). Back in France, in the Somme Valley, paleontological and geochronological data allo...
In 2020, the AFEQ-CNF INQUA will reward for the first time a francophone professional whose career has been devoted to the study of Quaternary whatever the discipline concerned. Dedicated to be awarded every two years, this distinction honors Henriette Alimen (1900-1996), a French geologist known fo...
The next conference of the AFEQ-CNF INQUA will be held from February 3 to 5, 2020 on the Condorcet Campus in Aubervilliers, north of Paris. Organized by the Laboratory of Physical Geography (UMR8591) of Meudon, Q12 aims to: (1) present news research carried out and associated results; (2) discuss ne...
Emilie CAMPMAS (1983-2019) Emilie passed away on Friday, March 8, 2019 after five years of tenacious struggle against this terrible disease that is cancer. After having held, from 2014 to 2016, an ATER position at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, she had recently joined CNRS as a researcher at t...
INRAP is urgently seeking a motivated geomorphologist for a 10-month contract at INRAP (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) in Nîmes, France. This person would intervene on the diagnoses and archaeological excavations in Gard and its surroundings. He/She must be ready to take...
An international research group, including scientists from three French laboratories (1), has revealed the systematic and negative impact of ocean warming on the extent of ice shelves in the East Antarctic Peninsula in recent decades and the 9000 last years. The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the reg...
The pollen grains content of lacustrine sediments allowed to trace the history of mountain biomes in Cameroon during the last 90 000 years. This study, conducted by French laboratories LOCEAN and LSCE of the IPSL with the National Herbarium of Cameroon, showed that tropical mountain forests are extr...
The 20th INQUA congress abstract submission deadline is on the 9th January 2019 ! Update : due to high demand the abstract submission deadline has been extended until Sunday 13th January (23:59 GMT) Please click here for details on abstract submission. Also note the Super Early Fee Registration Dead...
Analyzes performed on the teeth of two Neanderthal children from the archaeological site of Payre (Ardèche) and excavated by Marie-Hélène Moncel, CNRS researcher, attest to the oldest exposure to lead in humans. An international team of researchers measured the metal levels in the enamel of these te...
An international team(1) modeled the coupling between the extent of sea ice and marine ice shelves, and the temperature of the waters near the North Atlantic surface. This model explains the steep temperature changes in Greenland and the North Atlantic during the last ice age, between 130,000 and 15...
Call for papers for a special issue of the journal Méditerranée entitled "Coastal landscapes: evolution and risk of heritage erosion" (issue coordinators: Benoît Devillers, Pau Olmos Benlloch and Père Castanyer). One of the forgotten planning policies related to the current retreat of the shorelines...
Most models of climate simulations and vegetation indicate that ongoing climate change will have a global and far-reaching impact on terrestrial species and ecosystems for decades to come. Field observations would probably give researchers more confidence in future projections and thus allow more ap...
Paid internship opportunity for a Master (year 1 or 2) student, 4 months duration starting in February 2019, at the Laboratoire de Géographie Physique in Meudon on paleoenvironments (molluscan), supervised by N. Limondin-Lozouet and S. Granai: Within Mémo program - Mémoire des environnements holocèn...
French and Italian research teams have analyzed by X-ray scans the oldest human teeth discovered on the Italian peninsula. These specimens, some 450,000 years old, from the Italian sites of Fontana Ranuccio, 50km from Rome, and from Visogliano, less than 20km from Trieste, already show Neanderthal c...
An annual excursion (soon Portugal!), A biennial Q colloquium in which are awarded a thesis prize and soon a medal honoring a remarkable career (more information to come ...), a specialized day with the SGF Each year (this year: the Mediterranean), funding is awarded each year to a dozen or so young...
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, paleoclimatologist at the French Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), is co-chair of the IPCC's (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group on Climate Physical Basis. Following the publication of a special report on the impacts of a global...