1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 From: Alice Paine <alice.paine@xxxxxxxxx> *Could volcanic eruptions have shaped human history? And could answering this question guide us toward a more resilient future?* If these questions align with your research interests, we welcome you (and your abstracts) to our session at the EGU 2025 Meeting in Vienna, Austria (27th April 27 to 2nd May): *Environmental Crises within Humanity's Past (SSP1.6)*. Our session will showcase fresh perspectives on a variety of scientific ideas, concepts, and questions, with broad themes including: - *Crises throughout human history* â?? Investigation of past environmental extremes, and their impacts on humans. - *Earth system crises* â?? Examination of short- and long-term impacts following environmental crises driven by natural processes (e.g., volcanism, earthquakes, hydrological extremes, and abrupt climate shifts) - *Quantitative exploration of qualitative phenomena* â?? Utilization of large, composite datasets to understand the timing, expressions, and ultimately the drivers of environmental crises. Donâ??t miss the opportunity to join what is set to be an exciting discussion, with opportunity to meet and interact with scientists spanning a diverse range of research disciplines. To find the session on the EGU program and submit your abstract, please follow this link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/51640 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/51640__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!bW8smSiq2y9t6TL4yzHjHKvLqkIjAY-OiuihuBaL7gvcQOUoeaXe7G4xjGtb4T6QRbJEtq7d7M12ONQU19uXGpaMww$> Be sure to submit ahead of the official deadline, which is *Wednesday 15th January 2025 at 13:00 CET*. We look forward to meeting you in Vienna next spring! Best wishes, *The SSP1.6 session conveners,* Markus Fischer, Alice Paine, Alea Joachim, Manfred Mudelsee, Martin Trauth ______ â??*Environmental Crises within Humanity's Past*" As Charles Lyell famously wrote: â??*the past is key to the present*â??. Over the past two million years, the Earth has experienced a diverse range of environmental catastrophes. Defined as significant disruptions in the natural environment caused by phenomena such as abrupt climate change, volcanic eruptions, floods, droughts, and storms (including tropical cyclones), their effects can have profound impacts on the function of terrestrial environments and the resilience of the organisms within them. This includes *Homo sapiens*, for whom environmental crises have been a frequent feature of their evolutionary history. Today, humanity is becoming increasingly vulnerable to an increasing range of environmental extremes. This calls for a renewed focus on developing long-term, paired records of past environmental extremes and their resulting crises worldwide. *This session will explore how different environmental catastrophes have affected the Earth's system over the past two million years*. We invite abstracts with interests ranging from analyses of paleo-environmental archives, development of new geochemical proxies, and refinements in robust quantitative and sophisticated statistical techniques â?? all of which can be applied to the long-term synthesis of diverse research fields and an understanding of the complex relationships between natural and anthropogenically driven impacts on the climate system. 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 ------------------------------
