Call for contributions!
International Open Science Conference
Lessons for next-generation Earth system science
May 18 - 20, 2026
at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
In the Framework of the PalMod initiative (www.palmod.de/) we are planning an international open science conference on “Lessons for next-generation Earth system science”. The conference will take place from May 18-20, 2026 at the University of Bremen. We expect about 100 participants, ranging from early career to advanced researchers.
The oral program will take place throughout a plenary session and there will be sufficient time for discussion in the plenary after each presentation (20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion). The oral program is complemented by poster sessions in the afternoon with each poster being on display for the entire duration of the conference.
The range of climate variations from the last interglacial, through the last glacial to the present provides opportunities to assess and improve comprehensive Earth system models (involving interactive ice sheets and carbon cycle). Models that can successfully simulate climate variations during the last glacial cycle, might enable us to assess future climate changes more reliably. More specifically, models tested against the paleoclimate record can inform, for example, about a regime shift in climate variability or the occurrence of abrupt events during the next centuries and millennia in response to global warming.
We welcome contributions around the following broad themes:
- Feedbacks, thresholds, and abrupt changes during the last glacial cycle, with emphasis on nonlinear responses of the climate system and their implications for understanding transient climate evolution.
- Earth-system dynamics and climate variability, including the governing processes, feedbacks, and pathways of energy transfer across timescales from decades to millennia.
- Model-based future scenarios, derived from transient Earth system simulations and rigorously tested against proxy evidence, to evaluate the likelihood of abrupt transitions and long-term climate trajectories.
To register: https://events.dkrz.de/event/86/registrations/60/
Scientific steering group: Marie Kapsch, Bo Liu, Gerrit Lohmann, Vanessa Skiba, and Michael Schulz
Organizing group: Kerstin Fieg, Michael Schulz
