Description

The IGCP 610 2015 conference was hosted by M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and Astrakhan State University in Russia.

Technical Sessions were organized into five panels and five Oral/Poster sessions.

Panels:

• Recent Ecosystems and Processes
• Stratigraphy, Paleontology, and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
• Tectonics
• Modelling
• Archaeology, History, and Ethnology

The Poster sessions consisted of 34 presentations covering a wide range of subjects including geophysics, morphotectonics, the structure and genesis of islands, remote sensing, transgressive-regressive sea level changes and coastline migration, the economy of Late Mesolithic–Early Neolithic communities with respect to climate change, marine habitats, lithostratigraphy, paleogeography, palynology, deepwater peloids, modern fauna of the anoxic zone, mud volcanoes, underground freshwater sources, micro-(foraminifera) and macrozoobenthic communities, environmental stress caused by the Danube's discharge into the Black Sea, and the first evidence of Lower Paleolithic open-air sites in Eastern Georgia.