Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)

The AQUA AGM was held on Monday 11th April, many thanks to those in the community who found the time to attend. The 2025 committee includes: President – Dr Timothy Barrows, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW president@aqua.org.au Vice-president – Dr Lydia MacKenzie, University of Tasmania, Tas vicepresident@aqua.org.au Treasurer – Dr Alex Francke, University of Adelaide, SA treasurer@aqua.org.au Shadow Treasurer – Dr Juliet Sefton,…

AQUA is required to hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) in line with its constitution. As a result, we have scheduled an online AGM for Friday 11 April 2-3 pm (AEST) (this afternoon). Notice was circulated through the aqualist. Please make every effort to attend as we need a quorum of votes to make decisions.   If…

The AQUA AGM was held on Monday 29th April, many thanks to those in the community who found the time to attend. The 2024 committee includes: President – Dr Timothy Barrows, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW president@aqua.org.au Vice-president – Dr Lydia MacKenzie, University of Tasmania, Tas vicepresident@aqua.org.au Treasurer – Dr Alex Francke, University of Adelaide, SA treasurer@aqua.org.au Shadow Treasurer – Dr Annie Lau,…

Dear Quaternarists, This is the first call for contributions for the July 2024 issue of Quaternary Australasia. Please send in your contributions by 2 May to editor@aqua.org.au. The usual contributions can include (and are not limited to):    *   Quaternary-inspired poetry and art (for our new Quaternary Arts section)   *   workshop and field trip reports   * …

Abstracts are now open for the AQUA 2024 conference at Minjerabah (North Stradbroke Island). More information on the conference page. We look forward to welcoming the Quaternary community to SE Queensland in late June and hearing about all your exciting Quaternary projects.

The AGM will be held Monday 29th April, 1:30 pm (Adelaide or ACST).  That is: Midday AWST; 2:00 AEST and 4:00 pm NZST Please put this time in your diaries now and more details will follow.  Please get in touch with the President (John Tibby) or any of the committee members https://aqua.org.au/sample-page/committee/ if you’re interested…

Calling all Australian and New Zealand Quaternary scientists! We’re happy to announce that we will be running the AQUA mentoring program again in 2024. AQUA (Australasian Quaternary Association) brings together researchers that study the Quaternary climate and landscape changes. The organisation aims to provide a forum for Quaternary researchers to collaborate and share findings with…

Applications for the Leanne Armand travel award are now open. The award honours the late Professor Leanne Armand, and is set up to support early and middle career researchers to train as microfossil experts. More details can be found at the award page. Applications are due by 15 September 2023.