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

Aqua 2016 in Auckland update: 9 session proposals being decided on, abstract and registration forms will be sent out shortly. Keep 5-9 December free, and the following week if you plan on going on one of the extended field trips!

The next AQUA biennial conference will be held in Auckland New Zealand, from the 5-9 December 2016! Topic sessions will be held on the 5-6 & 8-9 December, with calls for session themes and registration details to be sent out in February 2016. At this stage, two mid-conference field trips will be held on the 7th…

The Academy, together with the Australian Geoscience Council, has opened a call for applications for a travel grant scheme for Australian and New Zealand ECR Geoscientists. This is a new fund that offers annual grants of up to $5000 for career-enhancing travel, established with the proceeds of the 2012 Brisbane IGC. For conditions and criteria head to the…

We’d love your opinion on this article!! Please head to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LTZ5HPP and choose your preferred definition of “The Anthropocene”. If you choose the option of “other” then please email president@aqua.org.au with your other.Votes close at the end of September.   First published in Quaternary Australasia, July 2015. – PDF version Helen C. Bostock1, David J. Lowe2, Richard Gillespie3, Rebecca Priestley4, Rewi…

Super stylish AQUA t-shirts are now available to purchase! T-shirts are light blue and feature an AQUA logo on the front, and a quaternary-inspired design by Emily Field on the back. T-shirts are only $39, including postage within Australia and New Zealand!   Currently, we only have sizes L, XL, and 2XL available, however smaller…

PhD student Matt Ryan from Victoria University in Wellington, NZ was awarded a Student Poster award at the recent INQUA congress in Japan. With many hundreds of posters presented at the conference, this is an excellent achievement for Matt. Congratulations!

By Ignacio Jara Saying goodbye to 2014 and welcoming in 2015 is a good time to reflect. Apart from being the hottest year ever recorded, 2014 has passed really fast; with so many good research articles! Since good science always keeps my spirits high, I have decided to embark on the tricky task of recapping…

By Ignacio Jara The issue of whether the last glacial-interglacial transition was synchronous between the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (NH) has been an ongoing and often controversial debate amongst Quaternarists. There is now considerable amounts of proxy data for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 22-19 ka) and the Last Glacial Termination (19-11 ka)…