Planning

Friday, June 26, 2026

Time Event (+)
15:30 - 18:00 SHORT COURSE #1. Introduction to Quantum Diamond Microscopy and Micromagnetic Modelling (Carennac) - Wyn Williams, Karl Fabian, Lennart De Groot, Ualisson Bellon  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Saturday, June 27, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast  
09:30 - 12:00 SHORT COURSE #2. MERRILL2 - Predicting Domain States and effect of Mineralogy and Oxidation (Carennac) - Wyn Williams, Karl Fabian, Lennart De Groot, Ualisson Bellon  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:30 - 17:30 SHORT COURSE #3. MERRILL2 - Predicting Remanence Stability: (Carennac) - Wyn Williams, Karl Fabian, Lennart De Groot, Ualisson Bellon  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast  
09:30 - 12:30 SHORT COURSE #4. Quantum Diamond Microscopy: Extracting Paleomagnetic Directions and Intensities, (Carennac) - Wyn Williams, Karl Fabian, Lennart De Groot, Ualisson Bellon  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
15:30 - 15:30 Pick-up participants at Toulouse Airport - Meeting point at....  
16:30 - 16:30 Pick-up participants at Brive train station. - Meeting point ....  
18:00 - 19:00 Welcome cocktail - AT the VVF....  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Monday, June 29, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
08:30 - 10:15 Session 1 : Fundamental Processes in Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Gaelle Ségué-Passama & Nathan Church (+)  
08:30 - 09:00 › Recent advances in micropaleomagnetism and micropaleointensity - INVITED- - Ricardo Trindade, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas [Universidade de São Paulo]  
09:00 - 09:15 › Advancing magnetic microscopy inversion techniques: towards spatially-resolved paleomagnetism and paleointensity - Gelson F. Souza-Junior, Universidade de São Paulo  
09:15 - 09:30 › Estimating Uncertainties in the Inversion of Magnetic Microscopy Data Through a Bayesian Approach - Ualisson Bellon, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh  
09:30 - 09:45 › Quantitative Thermal Micromagnetic Modeling of Hysteresis in SP, SD and SV particles of magnetite - Wyn Williams, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh  
09:45 - 10:00 › Bringing New Advances in Magnetic Imaging to an “Ancient” Question - Elias Mansbach, University of Cambridge [Cambridge, UK]  
10:00 - 10:15 › Measurement of Meteoritic Magnetic and Crystallographic Structures with Lorentz Scanning Electron Diffraction - Ginnis Thomas, University of Cambridge  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Session 1 : Fundamental Processes in Paleomagnetism and Rock Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Johanna Berckhan & Mathew Domeier (+)  
10:45 - 11:00 › Micromagnetic behavior of ferromagnetic inclusions in zircon: paleomagnetic implications - Rosa De Boer, Utrecht University  
11:00 - 11:15 › A square-root law for Arai plots in paleointensity experiments on homogeneous multi-domain magnetite ensembles - Karl Fabian, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geosciences  
11:15 - 11:30 › FORC-Rayleigh: A new measurement protocol for detailing magnetization processes along first-order reversal curves - Ramon Egli - Ramon Egli  
11:30 - 11:45 › Thermally Activated FORCs and AF demagnetization in SD to SV particles, a Micromagnetic Approach - Greig Paterson, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, The University of Liverpool  
11:45 - 12:00 › Particles to Planets: Scaling up paleomagnetic theory. - Brendan Cych, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool  
12:00 - 12:15 › Prebiotic magnetite enables chirality-magnetic surface feedback - Jose Devienne, Department of Earth Sciences [University of Cambridge]  
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Session 2: Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics (Espace Collonges) - Raúl Lázaro González & Dominika Niezabitowska (+)  
14:00 - 14:15 › Quantifying polar wander and its impact on reconstructions of past climates - Bram Vaes, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
14:15 - 14:30 › Ediacara obscura: Unveiling hidden magnetisations in the Fen complex, southern Norway - Justin Tonti-Filippini, Centre for Planetary Habitability  
14:30 - 14:45 › Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleogeography of Permian exotic blocks in the Yarlung Zangbo Mélange Zone, South Tibet - Shuo Feng, China University of Geosciences [Beijing]  
14:45 - 15:00 › Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the ca. 595 Ma volcanics of the Bull Arm Formation: Insights on the tectonic consistency of the microcontinent Avalonia - Boris Robert, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité  
15:00 - 15:15 › PRELIMINARY PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE EDIACARAN OLAVARRÍA FORMATION (ARGENTINA) AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE APWP OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA CRATON - Micaela Belén Bellante, Instituto de Geociencias Básicas, Aplicadas y Ambientales de Buenos Aires  
15:15 - 15:30 › Eurasian Sea paleogeography linked to Cenozoic geodynamic, climate and life from marine to continental magnetostratigraphic records of Kazakhstan - Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Géosciences Rennes  
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 17:30 Session 1 : Poster (Carennac) (+)  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetite-ulvospinel geometry distributions measured from 3D FIB-SEM tomographic data sets - Nathan Church, Department of Geosciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Mechanistic linkages between remagnetizations and superchrons - Mathew Domeier, Centre for Planetary Habitability  
15:45 - 17:30 Session 2 : Poster (Carennac) (+)  
15:45 - 17:30 › An Integrated Physical Model for the Remagnetization of the Nama Group, Namibia: A Conceptual Framework for the Large-Scale Magnetic Overprints of West Gondwanaland - Thales Pescarini, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Mini-AMS & major quakes: Unlocking Coseismic Melt Viscous Flow with Mini-AMS in Pseudotachylytes - Eric Ferré, New Mexico State University  
15:45 - 17:30 › A paleomagnetic 'thermochronometer' for mylonites reveals northwestward-younging exhumation along the Red River Fault, China - Tao Yang, Key Laboratory of Intraplate Volcanoes and Earthquakes (China University of Geosciences, Beijing), Ministry of Education  
15:45 - 17:30 › Coexistence of extensional and compressional fabrics in an intramountainous terrestrial basin (Calatayud, northern Iberian Chain) - Raúl Lázaro-González, Universidad de Zaragoza = University of Zaragoza [Saragossa University] = Université de Saragosse  
15:45 - 17:30 › Decoding Frictional Heat in Fault Rocks Using Petromagnetic Proxies - Eric Ferré, New Mexico State University  
15:45 - 17:30 › Reconstructing Meso- to Neoproterozoic Palaeogeography of the Grunehogna Craton through Integrated Geochronological and Paleomagnetic Constraints - Dominika Niezabitowska, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Localized magnetic mineral depletion within a major fault in the shallow Japan Trench accretionary wedge - Taizo Uchida, Kochi University  
15:45 - 17:30 › High-Inclination NRM Component within the Middle Triassic Sassendalen Group of Barentsøya: Toward a Better Understanding of Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic Remagnetisation of Eastern Svalbard - Krzysztof Michalski, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Paleomagnetism of Hematite-Bearing Carbonate-rich Mudstones of the Veteranen Group (NE Svalbard): New Constraints on Rodinia Reconstructions - Krzysztof Michalski, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Late Pan-African dyke emplacement in the Guider area (North Cameroon, CAOB): insights from AMS fabrics and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology - Daouda Dawaï, University of Maroua, Faculty of Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Daouda Dawai  
15:45 - 17:30 › New Paleomagnetic Data from Carbonates of the Upper Neoproterozoic Polarisbreen Group, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard - Krzysztof Michalski, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Preliminary paleomagnetic results on the ~182 Ma doleritic dykes from Côte d'Ivoire. Geodynamic constraints on the West African magmatism at the time of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic event (TOAE). - Sonia Rousse, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
08:30 - 09:45 Session 2: Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics (Espace Collonges) - Taizo Uchida & Sonia Rousse (+)  
08:30 - 08:45 › DeformMS: A Simple Toolbox for Modelling Magnetic Fabric Evolution During Rock Deformation - Martin Chadima, AGICO, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
08:45 - 09:00 › Physical modelling composite magnetic fabrics using Big Coil Anisotropy meter and standard-sized palaeomagnetic specimens - Frantisek Hrouda, AGICO  
09:00 - 09:15 › Kinematics of Strike-Slip Faulting Revealed by Magnetic Fabric of Fault Gouge: A case study from the Red River Fault - Xiuli Yan, Key Laboratory of Intraplate Volcanoes and Earthquakes (China University of Geosciences, Beijing), Ministry of Education, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration  
09:15 - 09:30 › Rock magnetic constraints on fluid-rock interaction and migration pathways in shallow megathrust shear zones - Claudio Robustelli Test, Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra, Universita Degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, CIMaN‐ALP Laboratory  
09:30 - 09:45 › Petromagnetic detection of fluid contacts and paleocontacts in hydrocarbon reservoirs of the Polish Outer Carpathians - Kamil Kobyliński, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography  
09:45 - 10:15 Session 3: Geodynamo Processes, Geomagnetic Field Behavior, and Planetary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Taizo Uchida & Sonia Rousse (+)  
09:45 - 10:00 › Mexican contributions to the Geomagnetic Instability Time Scale (GITS) - Harald Böhnel, Instituto de Geociencias [Querétaro]  
10:00 - 10:15 › Geomagnetic secular variation at the end of the Cretaceous Normal Superchron - Anang Sahroni, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Session 3: Geodynamo Processes, Geomagnetic Field Behavior, and Planetary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Lucas Barros & Louise Dauchy-Tric (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › Magnetic insights into the aqueous alteration of CM carbonaceous chondrite meteorites - Clara Maurel, Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement  
11:15 - 11:30 › Magnetic properties of metallic iron spheres distributed inside tektites from Philippines - Pierre Rochette, Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement  
11:30 - 11:45 › Global Paleomagnetic Model for the Gauss-Matuyama Reversal. - Pablo Rivera, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Section 2.3 Geomagnetism  
11:45 - 12:00 › Greigite formation and paleosecular variation in Holocene levee sediments from Lake IJssel (Netherlands) - Mark Dekkers, Department of Earth Sciences  
12:00 - 12:15 › Mid-Holocene high-resolution paleosecular variation record from coastal Baltic sediments, western Finland - Sonja Avellan, University of Helsinki, Deparment of Geosciences and Geography  
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:45 Session 3: Geodynamo Processes, Geomagnetic Field Behavior, and Planetary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Yuchen Chi & Hakan Ucar (+)  
14:00 - 14:15 › Late Neolithic ceramics from Northern Greece: An integrated archaeomagnetic and TL study. - Anastasios Ladas, Department of Geophysics, School of Geology  
14:15 - 14:30 › New insights into the geomagnetic field variation in Central Europe during the Bronze to Iron Age Transition - Gaëlle Ségué-Passama, GeoSphere Austria, University of Vienna  
14:30 - 14:45 › Refining the chronology of iron metallurgy in the 15-20th centuries in Bandjeli (Togo) with archaeomagnetic dating - Giorgia Ricci, Climat et Magnétisme, Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés  
14:45 - 15:00 › Refining the Japanese archaeointensity record over the last millennium: New constraints from well-dated Kamuiyaki and Bizen wares - Evdokia Tema, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, ALP-CIMaN Alpine Laboratory of Palaeomagnetism  
15:00 - 15:15 › The evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly - Liz Van Grinsven, Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk [Utrecht]  
15:15 - 15:30 › Tracing the origins and recurrence of the South Atlantic Anomaly 1: A 2000-year absolute paleointensity record from central South America - Miriam Gómez-Paccard, Instituto de Geociencias [Madrid]  
15:30 - 15:45 › Tracing the origins and recurrence of the South Atlantic Anomaly 2: A new global geomagnetic field model for the last 2000 years - F. Javier Pavón-Carrasco, Dpto. Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica. Universidad Complutense de Madrid., Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC - UCM)  
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break (Carennac)  
16:00 - 17:45 Session 3 : Poster (Carennac) (+)  
16:00 - 17:45 › Past Geomagnetic Field Strength Variations in the Eastern Mediterranean: New Evidence from Cyprus - Juan Morales, Servicio Arqueomagnético Nacional, Instituto de Geofísica  
16:00 - 17:45 › Assessing the Reliability of Thellier-IZZI Paleointensity Estimates in Cretaceous Mafic Dykes from Southeastern Brazil - Lucas Barros, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences [University of São Paulo]  
16:00 - 17:45 › Magnetic mineralogy and preliminary paleointensity constraints from Permian intrusive rocks of the Oslo Rift (Norway): implications for the Kiaman Reverse Superchron - Paul Antonio, Géosciences Montpellier  
16:00 - 17:45 › Geomagnetic Field Behavior During the Brunhes Chron: New Insights from Anatolian Volcanic and Sedimentary Records - Özlem Makaroğlu, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa  
16:00 - 17:45 › Palaeodirectional Analysis of Westfjords Lava Flows to Investigate the Mid-Miocene Kleifakot Event - Shefali Poojary, University of Iceland [Reykjavik]  
16:00 - 17:45 › Geophysical prospection and petromagnetic investigations at selected archaeological sites in north-eastern Poland - Artur Teodorski, Uniwersytet Warszawski [Polska] = University of Warsaw [Poland] = Université de Varsovie [Pologne]  
16:00 - 17:45 › Interdisciplinary research on archaeological ceramic artifacts from Bulgaria: studying the production technology by rock-magnetic and spectrometric analyses - Deyan Lesigyarski, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy, and Geography - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  
16:00 - 17:45 › Local estimation of the geomagnetic field at the core–mantle boundary during the archaeomagnetic era using data kernels - Mario Serrano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Geociencias [Madrid]  
16:00 - 17:45 › New record of the Laschamps excursion in a sediment core from the Sulu Sea - Louise Dauchy-Tric, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Section 2.3 Geomagnetism  
16:00 - 17:45 › New archaeomagnetic directions from the Czech Republic for the Late Iron Age and Roman Age Period: toward a new local secular variation curve for the Czech Republic - Šimon Kdýr, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
16:00 - 17:45 › Paleomagnetic Record of the Iceland Basin Excursion from the Sulu Sea, western Pacific - Shahnoor Alam, German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam  
16:00 - 17:45 › Evolution of magnetic properties of meteorites over time: a case study on Atacama Desert meteorites - Dilyara Kuzina, Kazan Federal University  
16:00 - 17:45 › Shock-induced demagnetization of target rocks at the Dhala impact structure, India - Ambrish Kumar Pandey, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur  
16:00 - 17:45 › High-resolution records of secular variation in Mexico using Speleothem ES4 - Andrea Gonzalez-Garcia, Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México  
16:00 - 17:45 › The contribution of archaeomagnetism to the chronology of copper alloy production in medieval Europe - Souad Ech-chakrouni, Centre de Physique du Globe de l'IRM  
16:00 - 17:45 › Geomagnetic Dipole Strength during the Cretaceous Normal Superchron recorded by baked sediments from Hainan (SE Asia) - Yuchen Chi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
16:00 - 17:45 › Hysteresis properties of iron meteorites - jérôme gattacceca, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement  
16:00 - 17:45 › New archaeomagnetic directions from Neolithic and Bronze age ovens, fireplaces and burned cave sediments in France - Gwenaël Hervé, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]  
16:00 - 17:45 › A preliminary archeointensity curve for Central Europe and its comparison with other regional field models - Patrick Arneitz, GeoSphere Austria  
16:00 - 17:45 › High-resolution paleomagnetic study of marine sediments from the Gulf of Sirte (offshore Libya) covering the last 250 ka - Rahel Paasch, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Section 2.3 Geomagnetism  
16:00 - 17:45 › Archaeomagnetic study of kilns from Barreal de la Troya (8th–14th centuries AD), Tinogasta, Argentina - Regina Velázquez Martín, Instituto de Geociencias [Madrid]  
16:00 - 17:45 › Beyond 10 ka BP: where puzzling geomagnetic field variations meet diverging models - Hakan Ucar, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
16:00 - 17:45 › Testing Non-Conventional Archaeomagnetic Materials: Mural Paintings and Stucco as a Unified Geomagnetic Field Recorder at Teotihuacan, Mesoamerica - Avto Gogichaishvili, Instituto de Geofísica Unidad Michoacán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
08:30 - 10:45 Session 5: Magnetism of Volcanic and Igneous Systems — A Tribute to Michel Prévot (Espace Collonges) - Rachel Kepler & Elisa Piispa (+)  
08:30 - 09:00 › A new framework describing 15 million years of global geomagnetic field behaviour - INVITED - Andrew Biggin, Geomagnetism Lab, University of Liverpool  
09:00 - 09:15 › From Geostrophy to Statistics: A New Statistical Model Covering the Range from Paleosecular Variation to Field Reversals - Pierre CAMPS, Géosciences Montpellier  
09:15 - 09:30 › Geomagnetic secular variation at mid-latitudes: insights from the volcanic fields of the Vogelsberg (15–18 Ma), the Rhön (18–20 Ma) and Lusatia (29–32 Ma) - Florian Lhuillier, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
09:30 - 09:45 › Discrimination of Intermediate Titanomagnetites using Field Amplitude and Temperature Dependence of AC Susceptibility - Agnes Kontny, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
09:45 - 10:00 › From Eruption Dynamics to Cooling Histories: Rock magnetic and Paleomagnetic insights into the Laacher See Eruption - Johanna Berckhan, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
10:00 - 10:15 › Paleomagnetic data from the Cretaceous Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt shed light on a possible link between the evolution of the Earth's magnetic field and the formation of Large Igneous Provinces - Vladimir Pavlov, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth [Moscow]  
10:15 - 10:30 › Integrated Paleomagnetic, Paleointensity, and Rock Magnetic Study of the Pleistocene Avranlo Lava Flow Sequence (Georgia, Lesser Caucasus) - Manuel Calvo-Rathert, University of Burgos, Spain  
10:30 - 10:45 › From Geomagnetic Reversals to Self-Reversed Thermoremanent Magnetization: Honoring Michel Prévot's Scientific Contributions - Avto Gogichaishvili, INSTITUTO DE GEOFÍSICA UNIDAD MICHOACÁN, UNAM.  
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 19:00 Social Event : Lascaux IV and Sarlat-la-Cadenat - Lascaux International center for parietal art and guided tour of the medieval city of Sarlat-la-Cadena - Departure by bus to Montignac. Picknick at Montignac before a guided tour in Lascaux IV. Transfert by bus to Sarlat-la-Cadena for a guided tour of the medieval city. Return to collonges-la-Rouge for the diner.  
20:45 - 22:00 Dinner  

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
08:30 - 10:15 Session 4: Environmental and Sedimentary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Dragomir Dragomirov & Katarzyna Dudzisz (+)  
08:30 - 09:00 › Assessing high-resolution Quaternary geomagnetic field behaviour: is there a climate-geomagnetism relationship? - INVITED - Andrew P. Roberts, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University  
09:00 - 09:15 › Determining magnetic field intensity and direction from the anisotropy of magnetic remanence in sediments - Stuart Gilder, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität  
09:15 - 09:30 › Evolution of Bottom ocean currents in the North Atlantic Ocean: Magnetostratigraphy and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility from IODP Expeditions 384, 395C, and 395 - Sara Satolli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia  
09:30 - 09:45 › Back to the cores: unraveling torsional deformation in marine sediments through exceptionally well-preserved paleomagnetic record (MD24-3690, Indian Ocean) - François Demory, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
09:45 - 10:00 › Holocene Sedimentary Record along the South Portugal Continental Shelf - Pedro Silva, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa – ISEL, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa - IPL, Instituto Dom Luiz - IDL  
10:00 - 10:15 › Integrating Rock Magnetism, Geochemistry, and Biological Proxies to Reconstruct 40,000 years of the Paleoenvironmental Change of Mexico's Second Largest Lake - Nayeli Pérez-Rodríguez, INSTITUTO DE GEOFÍSICA UNIDAD MICHOACÁN, UNAM.  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Session 4: Environmental and Sedimentary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Jirka Verleysen & Pedro Silva (+)  
10:45 - 11:00 › Paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic studies of bottom sediments in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean (North Pole-41 expedition) - Tansylu Khosnullina, Saint Petersburg State University, All-Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean named after Academician I. S. Gramberg (FSBI VNIIOkeangeologia)  
11:00 - 11:15 › Paleowind Directions, Paleosecular Variation and Relative Paleointensity of Marine Isotope Stage 6 Loess Sediments From Harletz, NW Bulgaria - Dragomir Dragomirov, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France  
11:15 - 11:30 › Rock- and paleomagnetic analysis on the oldest part of “Suhia Kladenetz” loess – paleosol sequence from Bulgaria – implications for the preservation of primary detrital remanence signal - Diana Jordanova, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  
11:30 - 11:45 › Reconstructing Late Quaternary dust transporting winds in the English Channel region - Dominika Niezabitowska, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences  
11:45 - 12:00 › Relationship between topsoil magnetic susceptibility and its shallow vertical distribution - Eduard Petrovsky, Institute of Geophysics, The Czech Academy of Sciences  
12:00 - 12:15 › Application of soil magnetometry for environmental site assessment: new case studies from Central Europe - Tadeusz Mageira, Institute of Evironmental Engieering, Polish Academy of Sciences  
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Session 4: Environmental and Sedimentary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Ricardo Mendes Shyu & Stephanie Scheidt (+)  
14:00 - 14:15 › Iron oxides in podzolic soils assessed by magnetic, spectroscopic and chemical selective dissolution methods - Neli Jordanova, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  
14:15 - 14:30 › Using Soil Magnetic Enhancement to Trace Hunter-Gatherer Land Use in Borehole Prospection - Lola Claeys, Department of Environment, Ghent University  
14:30 - 14:45 › Relict charcoal hearths: magnetic signature and enhancement - Marcin Szuszkiewicz, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences  
14:45 - 15:00 › What can we learn about transport of pollution studying former mining sites – a preliminary report - Katarzyna Dudzisz, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:00 - 15:15 › Building the EURO'AIR environmental magnetic network to trace airborne fine particles throughout European cities - Christine Franke, Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris)  
15:15 - 15:30 › Tracking air pollution in Thessaloniki's city center using plane tree bark - Elina Aidona, Department of Geophysics, School of Geology  
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 17:30 Session 5 : Poster (Carennac) (+)  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetic properties of pristine pillows: implications for long-term variation in seafloor magnetization - PRADYUT PHUKON, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur  
15:45 - 17:30 › The Rise and Development of Paleomagnetic Research in Georgia: The Role of Professor Michel Prévot - Djemal Sologashvili, University of Tbilissi  
15:45 - 17:30 › Diversity of hump-shaped k-T curves in flood basalts - Qi Zhang, China University of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen  
15:45 - 17:30 › In Search of Reliable Paleointensity Values: A Multimethod Test on Quaternary Mexican Volcanoes - Nayeli Pérez-Rodríguez, INSTITUTO DE GEOFÍSICA UNIDAD MICHOACÁN, UNAM.  
15:45 - 17:30 › When lavas lie: Geomagnetic reversal or Self-reversal? - Hakan Ucar, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Linking magnetic properties of MORBs to primary volcanic features and hydrothermal alteration along the South Atlantic ridge flanks - Claudio Robustelli Test, Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra, Universita Degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, CIMaN‐ALP Laboratory  
15:45 - 17:30 › Simulating TRM acquisition in intrusions for PSV estimation - Rachel Kepler, University of California [San Diego]  
15:45 - 17:30 › Paleomagnetism of the ~183 Ma Vestfjella flood basalts, Antarctica: implications for the Gondwana Large Igneous Province - Elisa Piispa, University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Rock magnetic properties of volcanic tephra as a stratigraphic correlation tool and proxy for eruptive processes: Insights from the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption - Elisa Piispa, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland  
15:45 - 17:30 › From Legacy Instruments to Open-Source Control: Modernizing a Rock Magnetism Laboratory - Antoine Raffray, Géosciences Montpellier  
15:45 - 17:30 Session 4 : Poster (Carennac) (+)  
15:45 - 17:30 › Rock magnetic records reveal mid-latitude aridification and marine deoxygenation during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum - Victor Piedrahita, Institute of geology and geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Integrating Environmental Magnetism and Citizen Science for Air Quality Assessment: Challenges in Stakeholder Communication - Pierre CAMPS, Géosciences Montpellier  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetic studies of soils polluted with military activity in Ukraine - Oleksandr Menshov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetic and chemical properties of indoor dust with a grain size below 20 μm. - Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Environmental magnetic biomonitoring of vehicular air pollution in Cologne, Germany - Stephanie Scheidt, Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne  
15:45 - 17:30 › Soil Magnetic and Geochemical Signatures of Metallurgical History in the Moravian Karst (Czechia) - Hana Grison, Geophysical Institute [Prague]  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetostratigraphic constraints on Early Pleistocene continental deposits from the Upper Cervo River section (NW Italy): implications for plant biochronology - Evdokia Tema, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, , Università degli Studi di Torino, ALP-CIMaN Alpine Laboratory of Palaeomagnetism  
15:45 - 17:30 › Fossil wood – a perfect microhabitat for magnetotactic bacteria - Katarzyna Dudzisz, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Geophysics - Polish Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › Decoding the magnetic signatures of terrestrial sediments from Antarctica - Stephanie Scheidt, Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne  
15:45 - 17:30 › Rock magnetic constraints on Jurassic–Cretaceous magnetostratigraphy of the Bosso Valley Section (Italy) - Šimon Kdýr, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
15:45 - 17:30 › The Magnetic Record of Modern Alpine Fluvial Sediments - Ricardo Mendes Shyu, Department für Geo-und Umweltwissenschaften [München]  
15:45 - 17:30 › Reconstruction of Fire Severity and Wetland Expansion Phases in the Crau Plain (Southeastern France) Using Environmental Magnetism - François Demory, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement  
15:45 - 17:30 › Magnetic soil characterisation with electromagnetic induction instruments: a perspective. - Philippe De Smedt, Department of Environment, Ghent University  
15:45 - 17:30 › Local and regional signals in magnetic susceptibility records from the last 100ky in the Lower Danube area (Bulgaria) - Daniel Ishlyamski, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography  
15:45 - 17:30 › Unexpected magnetic depletion in the paleosol unit S4 from the Kolobar loess-paleosol sequence (NE Bulgaria) - Bozhurka Georgieva - Ishlyamska, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography  
15:45 - 17:30 › Vertical distribution of magnetic susceptibility in the topsoil of different soil types: examination of soil homogeneity and representativeness of the selected study area - Tadeusz Mageira, Institute of Evironmental Engieering, Polish Academy of Sciences  
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner  

Friday, July 3, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
08:30 - 09:00 Session 4: Environmental and Sedimentary Magnetism (Espace Collonges) - Shuo Feng & Evdokia Tema (+)  
08:30 - 08:45 › Inclination shallowing in speleothems: new insights from a stalagmite of the Lapa dos Morcegos Cave (Portugal) - Eric Font, University of Coimbra, Institute Dom Luiz, Department of Earth Sciences  
08:45 - 09:00 › Quantifying Remanent Magnetization Acquisition Processes In Speleothems - Carolina Moraes, University of São Paulo  
09:00 - 10:15 Session 6: Emerging Topics and Interdisciplinary Applications (Espace Collonges) - Shuo Feng & Evdokia Tema (+)  
09:00 - 09:15 › How can 3D geomagnetic surveys contribute to archaeomagnetic studies of prehistoric caves? - Francois Lévêque, LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés [La Rochelle]  
09:15 - 09:30 › „Magic Shields“: Room Sized Integrated Hybrid Magnetic Shields Made of Electrical Steel and Mu-metal - Wolfgang Rösler, Royal Meteorological Institute  
09:30 - 09:45 › MAGSCREEN - Shielding against the Earth's Magnetic Field: Evaluating the Shielding Performance. - Simo Spassov, Geophysical Centre, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, 1 rue du Centre  
09:45 - 10:00 › MAGSCREEN - Shielding against the Earth's Magnetic Field: Experimental and Simulation-Based Evaluations of Materials Performance - Jirka Verleysen, Geophysical Centre, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, 1 rue du Centre, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand  
10:00 - 10:15 › EPOS - Infrastructure for sharing geoscientific data - Hana Grison, Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences  
10:15 - 10:35 Presentation of the next Castle Meeting. (Espace Collonges) - Elina Aidona  
10:35 - 10:50 Coffee break  
11:00 - 19:00 Social event: Chateau de Castelnaud-la-chapelle, the Museum of Medieval Warfare. - Picnic on the banks of the Dordogne before a guided tour of the castle with a trebuchet firing demonstration.  
19:30 - 23:00 Closing Gala  

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Time Event (+)
07:00 - 08:15 Breakfast  
09:35 - 09:35 Departure for Toulouse Airport and Brive Train station - To be defined.  
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