[Aqualist] New PALCOMM President

[Jessica Reeves]

Dear all,

Greetings from the new president of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission, PALCOMM!

My name is Atte Korhola, I'm a Finn, and Professor in Environmental Change and Vice-Dean of Societal Interaction of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki. I'm also the leader of Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU), a research group focusing on large-scale environmental changes and their implications to societies. My other activities include, inter alia, a membership in the Research Council for Biosciences and Environment of the Academy of Finland (the main research funding organization in Finland) and the Environment Panel of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), while I'm also the Finnish representative of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics (NORDFORSK) and a Fellow of the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA). I have acted as a consultant and adviser for several companies/enterprises in climate matters. I'm leading several international and national research projects and programmes and have over 100 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed literature dealing with global environmental changes and their impacts, past climatic variability, water and air pollution, and ecosystem resilience.

I am highly enthusiastic working with all of you. You can read more on my intentions regarding PALCOMM in the forthcoming Quaternary Perspectives.

I would now like to draw your attention to the rapidly approaching deadline of the PALCOMM IFG and project applications. Please, note that the deadline of the call is

January 15, 2016

For more information and downloading the INQUA forms for project applications, please visit http://www.inqua.org/PALCOMM/pcProjects.html

I use this opportunity to also wish you all most relaxing Christmas and holiday season.

Keeping in touch!
Atte

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Atte Korhola, Ph.D.

Professor in Environmental Change

Vice-Dean of Societal Interaction of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU)

Department of Environmental Sciences

P.O. Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1)

00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

Phone: +358504154528 (work); +358405360357 (home)

www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/ecru<http://www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/ecru>