The Sultanate of Oman (Fig. 1) is an incredibly diverse geologic region with a plethora of cultural, geomorphic, and stratigraphic sealevel data sets and was, therefore, a brilliant location to kick-off the International Geoscience Program (IGCP) project 639 (http://www. sealevelchange.org) meetings. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization funded, IGCP 639 Project, “Coupling instrumental, historical, archaeological, and geological records of sealevel change over minutes to millennia”, held its first meeting from November 9–14, 2016. The 2016 IGCP 639 project meeting was a multi-faceted conference that included a one-day workshop, two-day science symposium, and field-excursion components. Both the workshop and symposium sessions were held on the campus of German University of Technology in Oman, in Muscat, Oman and a three-day field excursion was conducted along Oman’s northeastern coastline. Thanks to the commitment from the event organizers and enthusiastic involvement from attendees, the meeting was extremely successful and well acknowledged by all.