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 December, with options to head to the buried OIS7 forest on the tidal flats and temperate rainforest walk or Rangitoto shield volcano excursion and Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
A Conference dinner will be held on the 8th December (venue being discussed), with a Quiz nite and BBQ on the 9th December.
Two post conference field trip options (6 days each) are currently being planned, and will be run according to level of interest.
The post conference field trips would depart Auckland 10 December and end 15 December 2016.
Trip 1: The Quaternary of the winterless North (a loop around the sub-tropical Northland/Far North region starting and ending in Auckland; Three nights in Bay of Islands, two nights at Kai Iwi Lakes). The trip will focus on ancient kauri, changes in ecology as seen in pollen records over interglacial-glacial scales, and coastal barrier evolution from OIS5-present.
Trip 2: Quaternary volcanism and environmental change
(excursion south from Auckland through the Waikato, the central North Island and ending in Wellington; Three nights in Taupo, two nights in Palmerston North). There will be a focus on Quaternary volcanism, tectonism, sedimentation, and climate. Stops will include the Taupo and Rotorua volcanic centres, glaciation in the Tongariro National Park, Napier/Hawkes Bay and the Kapiti- Horowhenua / Wanganui Basin sequences.
A PDF flyer is available here to begin advertising within your organisations. More information will be published on the AQUA website and Facebook as it becomes available.