Brock University is among the forefront of global efforts to define a new epoch in Earth\u2019s geologic record called the \u2018Anthropocene,\u2019 which is capturing worldwide interest.<\/p>\n
The Sunday, Dec. 18 edition of The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> featured a front-page article<\/a> quoting Earth Sciences Professors Francine McCarthy and Martin Head on the establishment of this new interval of geologic history.<\/p>\n \u201cThe public attention that this earth science initiative has received is somewhat surprising, but it is evidence that concern for our planet \u2014 and awareness of our impact on it \u2014 has become mainstream,\u201d says McCarthy.<\/p>\n McCarthy was also featured in the CBC\u2019s Saturday, Dec. 3 episode of Quirks and Quarks<\/em><\/a>. In that interview, she explained how the experts are examining sites around the world \u2014 including Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario \u2014 to find one location where the boundary layer between the two epochs is most evident.<\/p>\n Other recent media coverage includes: \u201cSommes-nous entr\u00e9s dans l\u2019anthropoc\u00e8ne?<\/a>,\u201d published Wednesday, Aug. 3, in L\u2019actualit\u00e9<\/em>; \u201c<\/em>Searching for evidence of the Anthropocene<\/a>,<\/em>\u201d published Thursday, July 21 in Geographical Magazine;<\/em>\u00a0and a summary of geological evidence from all the candidate sites, \u2018Defining the onset of the Anthropocene\u2019<\/a>, published in volume 378 of Science <\/em>on Friday, Nov. 18.<\/p>\n McCarthy and Head are members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), a panel of international experts examining materials \u2014 including radiation from atomic bombs, fertilizers, plastics, greenhouse gases, among others \u2014 arising out of human activities that are preserved in the geologic record.<\/p>\n The AWG is expected to recommend the proposed \u2018golden spike\u2019 for the Anthropocene to the Subcommission on Quaternary Science of the International Commission on Stratigraphy this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brock University is among the forefront of global efforts to define a new epoch in Earth\u2019s geologic record called the \u2018Anthropocene,\u2019 which is capturing worldwide interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":82739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,41,1,5],"tags":[4424,6908,6898,885,732,6900,348,5662,3113,4425,3325,12291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82738"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82750,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82738\/revisions\/82750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}