Are you sad the AQUA 2020 conference has been postponed? Are you missing your bi-annual Quaternary fix? Never fear, some of your fellow AQUA members, Helen Bostock and Chris Moy have proposed a pop-up online conference for all this Aus + NZ Quaternary! 

The online conference will occur on the 1st-2nd July 2020. Anyone working on quaternary research in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific or Antarctica are welcome to participate. Presentation content can span a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to) past climates/environments, stratigraphy, geomorphology, volcanology and biogeography. Students (PhD and Masters), and Early Career Researchers are strongly encouraged to participate, to get feedback on your research and meet the broader community. If you would like to present your research please send your; 

Name:

Affiliation:

Contact email address:

Informative title:

Key points: (eg. 3 points as for some journals) 

to h.bostock@uq.edu.au (for Australian related research) or chris.moy@otago.ac.nz (for New Zealand related research).

Key Information:

No cost. BYO coffee and food!

Presentation submission deadline: 1st June 2020

Short talks 10 mins, lots of time for discussion.

Dates for the AQUA 2021 biennial conference on the Atherton Tablelands will be re-assessed when the current situation changes.

Atherton, far north Queensland.

The Atherton tablelands have, of course, been the location of some iconic Quaternary studies, and this meeting will be an opportunity to acknowledge these contributions. It is also a great opportunity to escape the cool southern winters for the dry season tropics.

The venue for the conference will be the function room of The Atherton Hotel. The hotel is in the centre of the Atherton metropolis, close to all accommodation and entertainment options. It also has three bars to retire to if all the science talk has made you thirsty, or to facilitate even more talk.

Further information, including abstract submission details and registration, will follow in the upcoming weeks.

In light of the upcoming meeting in Ireland, the AQUA committee are delighted to announce the opening of this year’s Design-an-AQUA-tee competition. The design can be inspired by any aspect of Quaternary science, so use your imaginations!

Please send your entries in a format of your choice (Illustrator, PDF, jpeg, photo of a scribble on a serviette etc.) to georgina.falster@adelaide.edu.au by January 28th (the same day that the AQUA travel award applications are due).