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…

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…

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…

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…

The abstract submission and registration deadline for the upcoming AQUA biennial conference in Canberra has BEEN EXTENDED until Friday 9th of November! Visit the conference page for more information about the conference, submit abstracts and complete your registration (http://aqua.org.au/conference/aqua2018/). The deadline for travel funding has also been extended until Friday 9th November. Application forms can…

Sad news in that Professor John Chappell passed away on the 3rd October 2018 after a brief battle with cancer. Emeritus Professor John Chappell was unquestionably one of the world’s most well-known and accomplished Quaternary scientists of the past ~40 years or more. Described by Prof Bruce Thom as “the father of Quaternary research in…

SHeMax Meeting (Southern Hemisphere Last Glacial Maximum)  When: June 28th – 30th 2018 Where: Morton Bay Research Station (MBRS) of the University of Queensland on North Stradbroke Island. This is in the greater Brisbane area. General information about MBRS can be found at https://www.uq.edu.au/moreton-bay-research-station/content/front-page The maximum cost will be AUS$260.  This includes 2 nights accommodation…

A draft final program of speakers can be found here. aqua2016-speaker-schedule A list of the poster presentations and timings of the poster sessions is here. aqua2016-poster-sessions  

By Ignacio Jara The profound and permanent anthropogenic imprint on the planet and the accelerated rate of environmental change has opened a lively debate about establishing a new human-made geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Widely covered in by the public media, the Anthropocene Working Group has officially recognized that human impacts on the environment are of…

For more information about the upcoming conference go to the website at https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/research-projects/climate-present-and-past/Aqua2016  Great to see so many abstracts (>125) submitted for the upcoming AQUA conference. Early bird registration closes 25th October. https://uoaevents.eventsair.com/biennial-australian-quaternary-association-conference/std-reg/Site/Register