About Us

GeoSystems is an interdisciplinary, community-based initiative stemming from the growing recognition that a full understanding of Earth's climate system --and our climate future-- lies in examining the wealth of "alternative-Earth" climatic extremes archived in the pre-Quaternary geologic record. The GeoSystems approach recognizes and embraces the importance of the deep-time perspective for understanding the complexities of Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and surficial lithosphere using climate as the nexus. Recent and powerful developments in our abilities to read, date, and model Earth's deep-time history are enabling reconstruction and study of past scenarios at unprecedented detail. This detail underscores the timeliness of the GeoSystems initiative, which aims to create synergy among earth, ocean, and atmospheric geoscientists. This effort began and evolved through NSF-sponsored workshops (May 2003 and September 2004) that addressed the current and future state of research on Earth's pre-Quaternary climate record. GeoSystems is continuing with a variety of networking activities intended to grow the community and stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration.

This website is intended to serve as an introduction to this effort, and an evolving resource for the growing GeoSystems community. In addition to information on the two workshops, this site includes a growing list of resources of potential interest to the community (links, PDFs, meetings, images), and registration for GeoSystems researchers. Please send relevant material for inclusion on this website to Lynn Soreghan