Focus Area Groups

TERPRO includes six focus area groups, which form the main vehicle for achieving the objectives of the commission:

1. Hydrological change and climate (Gerardo Benito) This focus area builds on the extensive research conducted by GLOCOPH (Global Continental Palaeohydrology Project) from 1991 to 2007 by focusing initially on the effects of past climate and environmental changes on the hydrological cycle and on river catchment dynamics.
2. Aeolian history of deserts and arid regions (Nick Lancaster) This group will focus on bringing together the vast amount of data recently developed on dune chronology in desert regions, largely through the development of a Digital atlas of Quaternary dune fields and sand seas.
3. Glaciation and its control on hydrology (Jasper Knight, Neil Glaser).
4. Rapid changes during the last glacial-interglacial transition: events, chronology, and coincidences (?).
5. Hazards and humans (Suzanne Leroy).
6. Paleoseismology and active tectonics (Alessandro Michetti).