The Geology and Culture of the Anthropocene
In this audio episode, we hear from various participants of the Unearthing the Present event and discuss the science and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene. (...)
Clashing Presents: Between Big Melt and Small Governance
Which temporal immediacies and horizons do new forms of collectives, connected through a rising global ocean, need to coalesce? (...)
Clashing Presents: Memory and Oblivion in Times of Extinction
Exploring the accelerating processes and cumulative events of species extinction by examining biotic changes in the sediments of the San Francisco Bay. (...)
Clashing Presents: Reconciling Presents
A conversation that takes the stratigraphic research in Ernesto Cave, Italy, as a starting point for exploring how we might conceive a truly planetary time. (...)
Exchange On Collaboration And Complexity
How best can organizations reconcile alliance building, promote public discussions on environmental crises and nurture cultural shifts? (...)
Exchange On Deep Time And Deep Responseability
How do the geochronologists and geohistorians understand their response-ability to material signals from the past? (...)
Exchange on Geo-Inheritance
What alliances and common questions can help to work toward a science of partnerships, especially in processes that include more-than-human entities? (...)
Exchange on Melting Narrations
How can we mediate and embed scientific findings into new narrations? And what contingency, what order, will these narrations have? (...)
Exchange on the Half Life of the Nuclear Age
What are the prospects of living among radioactive substances as military spending on atomic weapons increases and some countries invest in and maintain nuclear power on their paths to “net zero” CO₂ emissions? (...)
How to Read a Changing Earth?
A live annotation of a sediment core from the Searsville Lake uncovered the anthropogenic markers inscribed into this stratigraphic material. (...)
Exhibition: New Natures
Part of State of Nature 2022, the exhibition New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born was a proposition to rethink the world as we know it today. (...)
Core Readings: Antarctic Peninsula
Researchers study an ice core from one of the fastest-warming places on Earth—revealing key data on Antarctica’s environmental history. (...)
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels? (...)
Core Readings: Sihailongwan Lake
Tracing socio-political upheavals and technological change in sediment samples from Sihailongwan Lake in northeastern China. (...)
Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction. (...)
Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction. (...)
Fragments from the White Angst Cli-Fi Read-Along
Recording of a live, read-along event presenting a collage of writing by climate fiction authors from all over the world. (...)
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022. (...)