Objectives

The Subcommission works towards three main goals:

(a) To facilitate international collaboration in research on Ediacaran stratigraphy and Earth history through subcommission sponsored field trips, workshops, and meetings;

(b) To search for criteria useful in the subdivision and correlation of Ediacaran strata;

(c) To define the basal boundaries of Ediacaran epochs (series) and ages (stages) through the establishment of global stratotype sections and points (GSSP’s);

In addition, the Subcommission is committed to further communication with a wider public through grassroots initiatives to conserve important Neoproterozoic geological sites, to support International Geoscience Programme projects, and to encourage the wider dissemination of research findings on the worldwide web or in popular science publications.

Officers

Working Group Chairs

Honorary Members

Andrew H. Knoll - Harvard University, USA

Malcolm Walter - University of New South Wales, Australia

SC Voting Members

Alvaro, Jose-Javier - Centre of Astrobiology, Spain

Christie-Blick, Nicholas - Columbia University, New York, USA

Gehling, James G. - South Australian Museum, Australia

Grazhdankin, Dmitri V. - Novosibirsk, Russia

Jiang, Ganqing - University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Kaufman, Alan Jay - University of Maryland, USA

Laflamme, Marc - University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada

Liu, Alexander - University of Cambridge, UK

Liu, Pengju - Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China

Moczydlowska-Vidal, Malgorzata - Uppsala University, Sweden

Narbonne, Guy M. - Queens University, Kingston, Canada

Schiffbauer, James D. - University of Missouri, USA

Sharma, Mukund - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

Shields-Zhou, Graham A. - University College London, UK

Wood, Rachel - University of Edinburgh, UK

Xiao, Shuhai - Virginia Tech, USA

Yuan, Xunlai - Nanjing, China

Zhou, Chuanming - Nanjing, China

Zhu, Maoyan - Nanjing, China