On May 8-11, 2023, Co-leader of the standards group of IUGS DDE program Prof Dr Zhang Minghua and another 3 scientists attended the 38th Geoscience Information Consortium (GIC) conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The DDE Outcrop3D Group and IUGS agreed to cooperate and plan to start digitizing “The First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage sites”. The project will include 11 IUGS geological sites in Europe and 10 IAS post-conference outcrops.

DDE's Mineralogy Working Group publication detailing electron transfer rules in nature regulated by element electronegativity and mineral work function. March 2023!

The DDE Platform is a one-stop online geoscience research platform. Its scope is to make global geo-scientists’ collaborative innovation and discovery more efficient and intelligent.

UNESCO, the International Union of Geological Sciences and the Deep-time Digital Earth consortium co-organized the Deep-time Digital Earth Open Science Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 9 November 2022 within the framework of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.