At the open meeting in Arbois 1-3 June 2016, we reviewed and reorganized the EPD working groups (current coordinator in italics)

• Taxonomy : Steffen Wolters
• Age-depth chronologies : Thomas Giesecke
• Community outreach : Graciela Gil-Romera
• Surface Samples : Basil Davis
• Quantitative Tools : Alistair Seddon
• Former Interglacials : Petr Kuneš

At the open meeting in Arbois 8-12 May, we set up some support groups (nominated members listed below - coordinator in italics) and we now invite you to add your name to these groups if you wish to be involved in their work.

• Taxonomy : Steffen Wolters, Marie-Jose Gaillard, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Bruna Ilde Menozzi, Morteza Djamali
• Database structure : Thomas Giesecke, Simon Brewer, Basil Davis, Ralph Fyfe, Eric Grimm, Anne Vignot, Pim van der Knaap, Shonil Bhagwat, Walter Finsinger, Michelle Leydet, Jörg Christiansen
• Age-depth chronologies : Maarten Blaauw, Basil Davis, Keith Bennett, Elena Ortu
• Financial group : Richard Bradshaw, Heather Binney, Hermann Behling, Valerie Andrieu
• National contact points : Walter Finsinger, Sampson Panajiotidis, Graciela Gil-Romera, Fraser Mitchell, Heikki Seppä, Laura Sadori, Klaus Oeggl, Wim Hoek, Marie-Jose Gaillard, Petr Kuneš, Aleksandra Simakova, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Bart Klinck, Basil Davis, Vanessa Gelorini
• Mapping and data accuracy : Simon Brewer, Walter Finsinger, Thomas Giesecke, Graciela Gil-Romera, Anne Le Flao, Ralph Fyfe, Petr Kuneš, Norbert Kühl, Heather Binney, Dorota Nalepka, Jörg Christiansen
  • Surface Samples : Basil Davis, Daniele Colombaroli, Marco Zanon