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COSMO2026 : The 7th conference on cosmogenic nuclides

 15-19 June 2026 Aix en Provence (France)

Detailed program

Monday, June 15, 2026

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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08:00 - 08:30 Registration + welcome coffee  
08:30 - 08:40 Introduction  
08:45 - 10:10 Atmospheric cosmogenic nuclides applications (Le Cube) (+)  
08:45 - 09:30 › Meteoric 10Be/9Be- new avenues for quantifying weathering and erosion in mafic and carbonate lithologies - Hella Wittmann, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences GFZ  
09:30 - 09:50 › Authigenic 10Be/9Be Isotope Ratios as a tracer of Sediment Transport Processes: A Case Study from The Strait of Sicily - Rezky Aditiyo, Univerzita Komenského = Comenius University [Bratislava]  
09:50 - 10:10 › Basalt denudation and weathering rates across spatial and temporal scales using ¹⁰Be(meteoric)/⁹Be in the volcanic Vogelsberg (Germany) - Nicholas Iff, Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany  
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
10:40 - 11:40 Atmospheric cosmogenic nuclides applications (Le Cube) (+)  
10:40 - 11:00 › Quantifying denudation and weathering rates from meteoric Be-10 to stable Be-9 ratios on a volcanic tropical island - Adrien FOLCH, German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam  
11:00 - 11:20 › Combined Atmospheric ¹⁰Be and ³⁶Cl Records from the Talos Dome Ice Core (East Antarctica): New Insights into Solar Activity and Geomagnetic Field Across the Last Deglaciation - Ellyn Auriol, CEREGE  
11:20 - 11:40 › Long-term monitoring of 36Cl in precipitation in the Adamawa Plateau (center-north Cameroon). - Souleyman ABBA, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
11:40 - 12:00 Exposure Ages Applications (Le Cube) (+)  
11:40 - 12:00 › Evolution of glaciers in Ecuador during the late Holocene based on 36Cl moraine dating and glacio-climatic modelling - Clément Lebon, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
12:00 - 12:20 Popups posters presentation  
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch (Le Cube)  
13:20 - 14:40 Exposure Ages Applications (Le Cube) (+)  
13:20 - 13:40 › Lateglacial and Holocene evolution of small ice caps on subantarctic Kerguelen Islands: insights from 36Cl cosmic ray exposure dating and glaciological modelling - Deborah Verfaillie, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
13:40 - 14:00 › Lateglacial-Holocene rock glacier dynamics in the western Alps and Pyrenees: long-term geomorphic archives of mountain permafrost and paleoclimatic conditions  
14:00 - 14:20 › Paired cosmogenic nuclides (26Al-10Be) in ice-free landforms document several EAIS oscillations following the Last Glacial Maximum in Terre Adélie (East Antarctica). - Marcelline Péan, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne  
14:20 - 14:40 › Pre-glacial rivers and first ice sheet advance: 10Be–26Al depth profile exposure age constraints from eastern Lithuania (NE Europe) - Michal Šujan, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Geology and Paleontology  
14:40 - 15:10 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
15:10 - 16:30 Exposure Ages Applications (Le Cube) (+)  
15:10 - 15:30 › Multiple dating approach (230Th/U and 36Cl) of coastal boulders emplacement on low Cuban coastal terraces. - Christine Authemayou, Geo-Ocean  
15:30 - 15:50 › Paired ¹⁰Be–²⁶Al dating of an extreme debris-flow: resolving timing and inheritance in the Caraz fan (Cordillera Blanca, Peru) - Ronald Concha, Institut des Sciences de la Terre  
15:50 - 16:10 › Left-lateral strike slip rates and formation mechanism of Yadong-Gulu rift, southern Tibet - Shiguang Wang, Seismology Research Laboratory  
16:10 - 16:30 › Reconstructing the seismic history of the Roccapreturo Fault (Italy) from dense 36Cl profiles - Maureen Llinares, CEREGE  
16:30 - 16:50 Popups posters presentation  
16:50 - 18:30 Poster session  

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

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08:15 - 08:40 Welcome coffee  
08:45 - 10:10 Denudation and Earth Surface Processes (Le Cube) (+)  
08:45 - 09:30 › Erosional Transience Across Timescales and Processes: Insights from 14C–10Be - Duna Roda, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona  
09:30 - 09:50 › What can in-situ 14C from river sediments reveal about landscape evolution? - Florien Van der Leijé, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics  
09:50 - 10:10 › Contrasting millennial-scale sediment dynamics across the Main Divide in the Southern Alps of New Zealand - ARINDAM BISWAS, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse  
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
10:40 - 12:00 Denudation and Earth Surface Processes (Le Cube) (+)  
10:40 - 11:00 › Did erosion rates increase in the Himalaya from the Plio-Pleistocene boundary to modern times? - Sohini Bhattacharjee, University of Potsdam  
11:00 - 11:20 › When can single-nuclide denudation rates be trusted? — A global assessment from paired cosmogenic-nuclide constraints and machine learning - Rouxian Pan, Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia  
11:20 - 11:40 › Climate-driven acceleration of denudation across the last glacial-interglacial transition - Romano Clementucci, Dipartimento di Scienze Università Roma Tre, Aix-Marseille Universite- CEREGE, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences  
11:40 - 12:00 › Post-glacial geomorphic response, erosion dynamics and sediment transfer in the Ariège catchment (Eastern Pyrenees, France) - Bastien Féaud, Institut des Sciences de la Terre  
12:00 - 12:20 Popups posters presentation  
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch (Le Cube)  
13:20 - 14:40 Denudation and Earth Surface Processes (Le Cube) (+)  
13:20 - 13:40 › Rates of reverse fault displacement from cosmogenic nuclide derived scarp erosion - Steven Binnie, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne  
13:40 - 14:00 › Spatial patterns of beryllium-10 abundance in arid Australia - John Jansen, GFÚ Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences  
14:00 - 14:20 › Spatial variability and geomorphic controls of denudation rates in the Alpine Rhine Basin (Switzerland) - Sofia Garipova, Institute of Geological Sciences  
14:20 - 14:40 › Spatial variability of denudation rates and transient landscape adjustment in low-deforming mountains (the Strengbach catchment, Vosges Mountains, France) - Bastien Mathieux, Institut Terre Environnement Strasbourg  
14:40 - 15:10 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
15:10 - 16:30 Denudation and Earth Surface Processes (Le Cube) (+)  
15:10 - 15:30 › The conditions for recording climate cycles using detrital TCNs: modeling and new data from the Platte River (USA) - Vincent Regard, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse  
15:30 - 15:50 › In situ produced 10Be and 26Al measurements in shale quartz reveal patterns of erosion in the layered rocks of the southern Appalachian Mountains - Darryl Granger, Purdue University [West Lafayette]  
15:50 - 16:10 › Long-term carbonate bedrock denudation rates with cosmogenic 36Cl in two Mediterranean environments: Slovenia and Türkiye - M. Akif Sarıkaya, Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences  
16:10 - 16:30 › Denudation rates of carbonate coasts: insights from in situ cosmogenic 36Cl from Cuban coastal terraces - Denovan Chauveau, Geo-Ocean  
16:30 - 16:50 Popups posters presentation  
16:50 - 18:30 Poster session  

Thursday, June 18, 2026

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08:15 - 08:40 Welcome coffee  
08:45 - 10:10 Methodological developments (Le Cube) (+)  
08:45 - 09:30 › Are we done with scaling methods yet? - Greg Balco, Berkeley Geochronology Center  
09:30 - 09:50 › Mineral chemistry control of cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne production rates - Finlay Stuart, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre  
09:50 - 10:10 › Picking the low-hanging fruit to evaluate 10Be production rate calibration datasets - Gordon Bromley, University of Galway  
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
10:40 - 11:20 Methodological developments (Le Cube) (+)  
10:40 - 11:00 › Cosmogenic radionuclide research at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) with special focus on avoiding chemistry (but not chemists) - Silke Merchel, University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Physics, Austria  
11:00 - 11:20 › Justification for an International Intercomparison Exercise to Assess the Reproducibility of In Situ C-14 Measurements in Quartz - Reka Fulop, The Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS), Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, Australia  
11:20 - 12:00 Burial dating and sediment storage (Le Cube) (+)  
11:20 - 11:40 › Burial dating cave sediments in the Jura Mountains: an archive of Middle Pleistocene Alpine glaciation - Neal Mathes, Swiss Institute for Speleology and Karst Studies, Institute of Geological Sciences  
11:40 - 12:00 › Valley incision and karst development based on 26Al/10Be burial dating of cave sediments, Western Mecsek Mountains, Hungary, Pannonian Basin - Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, MTA, Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary  
12:00 - 12:20 Popups posters presentation  
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch  
13:20 - 14:20 Burial dating and sediment storage (Le Cube) (+)  
13:20 - 13:40 › Isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating reveals transient gorge incision in the Save River (French Pyrenees Foreland) - Gilles Rixhon, University of Strasbourg  
13:40 - 14:00 › The timing of the early hominin occupation of Central Europe: New TCN dating of Korolevo complex (western Ukraine) - Roman Garba, Nuclear Physics Institute of the AS CR, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
14:00 - 14:20 › Multi-dating the Mu Us Desert: Integrating cosmogenic nuclide, paleomagnetic, and luminescence chronologies - Fei Peng, Lanzhou University, Aarhus University [Aarhus]  
14:20 - 14:50 Coffee break (Le Cube)  
14:50 - 15:40 Burial dating and sediment storage (Le Cube) (+)  
14:50 - 15:10 › Triple-isotope exposure-burial dating of Greenland subglacial materials: new constraints on ice-sheet history - Joanna Charton, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA  
15:20 - 15:40 › LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION DURING THE EARLY TO MID PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION (EMPT) IN HUMID TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS DEDUCED FROM COSMOGENIC KRYPTON BURIAL AGES AND PREBURIAL EXPOSURE - Tibor Dunai, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne  
15:40 - 16:30 Poster session  
16:30 - 17:30 General discussion; Cosmo2028 (Le Cube)  
17:30 - 19:00 Aix guided tour - Guides will conduct the attendees in Aix city . The tour will end at Hotel Aquabella at 7pm.  
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner at Hotel Aquabella  

Friday, June 19, 2026

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08:30 - 18:00 The Provençal hinterland and the Messinian crisis - To be precised  
  
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