NORPALL

The Nordic Palaeo Alliance (NORPALL) is a collaborative group of early career Earth science researchers with the ambition of improving age constraints on glacier landforms, sediments, and climate archives within the Nordic region.

The Nordic Lands are linked through a shared Quaternary history; however, each region hosts its own unique glacial and climate archives. Understanding the rates and style of past deglaciation is critical for projecting future change. Palaeo-investigations which provide quantitative / geochronological constraints are increasingly important given today´s (anthropogenic driven) climate change and its direct effect on the cryosphere and global sea level. NORPALL fosters the development of new geochronological approaches for reconstructing the past to constrain projections of the future.

Strong tradition of collaborative Quaternary research

NORPALL FIELD SCHOOL - ICELAND 2027

Do you want to learn about the Icelandic Ice Sheet and how to better date the deglaciation?

NORPALL Field School Application

All applicants for the NORPALL 2027 Field School should apply before the 15^th of December 2026.

Please submit a single PDF document, including a 1-page CV as well as a 250-word abstract written as a plain language summary of your thesis project.
Applications should be submitted to NORPALL PI, Wesley Farnsworth.
We plan to send out course participation offers by mid-January 2027.

NORPALL fund

Are you organizing a conference or a field excursion related to Nordic Quaternary Palaeo Research? Do you want to ensure participation of early career researchers?

Apply to the NORDIC PALAEO ALLIENCE for early career researcher financial support.

Applications should be submitted in the form of a single PDF, include following:

• 500-word summary of the planned event
• 1-page CV of the head organizer
• A draft program
• A draft budget (specifying how the NORPALL ECR funding would be used)

Applications should be sent to NORPALL PI, Wesley Farnsworth and will be evaluated on a rolling basis, during regular NORPALL Steering Committee Meetings.

The primary goals of NORPALL are to:

• Establish and unite a community of like-minded early career researchers who will
• Target outstanding research questions facing Nordic Quaternary Science and ultimately,
• Promote and advance Quaternary research focusing on chronological tools within the Nordic countries by training future scientists.

NORDPALL´s objectives will be met through a variety of techniques including geochronology focused workshops paired with Nordic laboratories, graduate-level summer schools enhanced by collaborating mentor-senior scientists and social events paired with international scientific conferences (e.g. Nordic Geological Winter Meeting & ARCPaC).

• Facilitate the gathering and collaboration of early career researchers with a shared common ambition of dating glacier landforms, sediments and palaeo-climate archives.
• Stimulate cross-disciplinary investigations within the scope of Quaternary palaeo-glaciers, climate and sea level.
• Develop novel geochronological approaches to pursue unresolved research questions (or themes) in Nordic Quaternary Science.
• Attract graduate students (PhD and Msc) to the field of Nordic Quaternary research.
• Unite graduate students to train and share practical (field/laboratory) experience through credited (ECT) summer schools, strengthened by partnering mentor-senior scientists.