Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) has continuously drawn the attention of the scientific community since it was first sighed by Dutch Sailors in 1722. By those early days it was already described as a mysterious and isolated islet boasting hundreds of monumental stone statue –the Moais– and as the only island of the South Pacific…
Continue ReadingThe first Southern Hemisphere Assessment of Paleo-Environments workshop is to be held at GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand on the 16th September 2013. If you are developing proxy data, have environmental reconstructions, or are interested in the last 60ka, please come along and join us at this workshop! Limited funding is available for New…
Continue ReadingINQUA 2013 Early Career Researcher Inter-congress meeting: 2nd– 6th December, 2013, Wollongong, Australia. The INQUA ECR meeting has a limited number of travel awards available for those giving an oral presentation and intending to publish in the QI Special Issue. For international attendees this amounts to (AU $1000) and for Australasian attendees this amounts to…
Continue ReadingHola, Kia ora everyone, My name is Ignacio Jara and I am PhD student from Chile, currently studying at the School of Earth Sciences at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. After one and a half years of living and studying in Wellington, New Zealand, I have been asked to write a monthly blog commenting on…
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