2022 AQUA Mentoring Program

Calling all Australian and New Zealand Quaternary scientists! We are launching our inaugural AQUA mentoring program! 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 one another. The goal of our inaugural mentoring…

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AQUA Annual General Meeting 2022

The 2022 AQUA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online on Monday 11th April from 1-2 pm (AEST). All AQUA members and non-members are invited to attend, however only current financial members are able to nominate for committee positions and vote. If you are not a current financial member you can renew your membership…

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AQUA 2022

AQUA 2022  The next AQUA conference will be held in Adelaide, Australia from Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th December, 2022! This will be the first in-person AQUA conference for 4 years and we can’t wait to see as many AQUA members there as possible. However, due to travel constraints this meeting will likely be offered as…

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XXI INQUA Congress 13-20 July 2023

The XXI INQUA congress is to be held from the 13-20th of July 2023! The first circular and call for sessions has just been released. It would be great to see some sessions proposed from the AQUA community, in particular those with a Southern Hemisphere focus. Session proposals are due by March 31, 2022. Check…

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Interview series: Dr Michelle McKeown

By Dr Annie Lau I got the opportunity to ask Dr Michelle McKeown some questions before she moves out of Australasia and back to her native country, Ireland. I wish her all the best in her new role as a lecturer at University College Cork! 1. Hi Michelle, you seem to have worked in many…

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Aus+NZ pop-up-e-conference

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…

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AQUA 2020 *Postponed to 2021* – Atherton Tablelands

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…

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Design-an-AQUA-tee competition

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…

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AQUA TRAVEL AWARDS 2019

INQUA Congress 2019, Dublin – AQUA Travel awards AQUA is offering four $3000 (AUD) travel prizes to post-graduate students or early-career researchers to fund attendance for the INQUA congress in Dublin, Ireland (http://www.inqua2019.org) on 25th to 31st July, 2019. Full criteria and required forms can be found on the Application Form. Please return the completed application…

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