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We are pleased to present the “Winter School on Active Tectonics and Climate Change Driven Landscape Evolution”. It will be held in Palermo(Sicily), one of the most historical and ancient cities in Italy, next winter (5-8 December 2022) at the “Gemmellaro Geologic Museum” founded in 1861 by Gaetano Gemmellaro, geologist and palaeontologist.

The school is about advanced techniques and new methodologies to study landscape evolution, disentangling the Active Tectonics and Climate Change forcings over the Quaternary period.

 

The school is organized into two different parts:

We will have two days of talks by invited young and more experienced researchers (the 5th and 6th of December). This winter school will also be an occasion to share research, gather helpful tips and new collaborations and share your research through Pico-Talks. Winter school students will be invited to present their research through a 5-minute speech followed by an interactive Q&A session.

We strongly encourage MSc and PhD students and young researchers attending the school to bring along their PICO presentation summarizing their current research work. We will provide space and time during the lectures with the opportunity to discuss with other young and more experienced researchers.

 

This will be followed by two days of fieldwork where experienced researchers will show crucial locations in western Sicily (the 7^th and 8^th of December). To date, scheduled field trips are:

• (i) Relative sea-level changes evidence in the S. Vito Peninsula (led by Fabrizio Antonioli);
• (ii) Active tectonics and its interaction with sea level changes in South Western Sicily (led by Luigi Ferranti & Pierfrancesco Burrato);
• (iii) Archaeo-seismological evidence of historical earthquakes within the Archaeological Park of Segesta (led by Carla Bottari).

 

To date, the confirmed invited speakers are:

 

• Attilio Sulli – Full Professor, University of Palermo
• Luigi Ferranti – Full Professor, University of Napoli
• Antonino Maltese – Researcher, University of Palermo 
• Fabrizio Antonioli – Researcher, CNR
• Jenni Robertson – Postdoc Fellow, Birkbeck College (University of London)
• Javed N. Malik – Full Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
• Petra Štěpančíková – Full Professor, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the CAS (Prague)
• Carla Bottari – Researcher, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

 

INQUA do care about the involvement of young researchers and researchers from developing countries, so travel and accommodation grant will be provided. Applications for students, Early Career Researchers, and Developing Countries Researchers should contain:

 

• One-page CV;
• Short motivation letter (max. ten lines);
• Travel and accommodation expenses;
• Required support (short budget);
• Additional funding availability.

 

It should be uploaded in a PDF file in the registration link.

 

This winter school will host up to 30 students and is organized under the activities of the Landscape Evolution Marker Online Network (LEMON)project, a project developed under the umbrella of INQUA and its TERPRO commission, and it is related to the Session 176 of INQUA Rome 2023 congress titled: “Tectonic and Climate-driven Landscape Evolution a never-ending challenge for modern society (Thoughts from LEMON project, INQUA – AIQUA)”. With this winter school and upcoming online courses, the LEMON Working Group hopes to connect academics with various areas of expertise and methods interested in identifying landscape evolution markers. We believe that this winter school will set the way for a fruitful INQUA Rome 2023 session with engaging oral and poster presentations deepening our comprehension of landscape evolution driven by tectonics and climate. For this reason, the winter school participants are encouraged to submit also an abstract to this session. The Pico-Talk session could represent a perfect moment to discuss the students’ ongoing research before the INQUA Rome 2023 conference.

 

Submission deadline: 01/11/2022.

Submission link: https://inquaroma2023.org/abstract-submission/.

 

We look forward to seeing you all in Palermo this winter (and in Rome next summer) to (i) share your research, (ii) talk about future scientific questions to answer, and, most of all, (iii) create new and exciting scientific collaborations.

For any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Best Regards,

 

The LEMON Working Group. 

 

Contact persons:

 

• Nicolò Parrino, University of Palermo: nicolo.parrino@unipa.it
• Eshaan Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: eshaan@iitk.ac.in