Written by Ignacio Jara, Victoria University Wellington. While the abrupt climate transitions of the glacial termination and the establishment of the present-day modes of climate variation during the Holocene seems to be well characterized in proxy records around the Southern Hemisphere, there is still sparse evidence about the impact of those changes on the migration,…
Continue ReadingWritten by Ignacio Jara, Victoria University Wellington Although the long-term changes in solar insolation between Northern Hemisphere (NH) and the Southern Hemisphere (SH) are in anti-phase, marine and ice core records from both hemispheres show highly synchronous glacial/interglacial cycles over the last 800 kyr. This disparity between the insolation and the paleo-records is probably the…
Continue ReadingThe first SHAPE workshop was held at GNS Science on the 16-17th September 2013. A summary of the talks and discussion at the workshop can be found on the SHAPE project page. Lots of ideas were discussed and it was clear that there is still momentum continuing on from the Aus-INTIMATE project. There is a long…
Continue ReadingAustralia provides an outstanding case study to resolve the relationship between Late Quaternary environmental drivers such as climate variability, vegetation changes, wildfires, faunal extinctions and human activities. The interval between 50,000-40,000 years BP is critical for understanding the interplay of some of these factors and how they transformed the Australian landscape. During this period, humans…
Continue ReadingAQUA travel awards for the INQUA ECR now due on the 1st October – see previous blog for forms UPDATE: INQUA 2013 Early Career Researcher Inter-congress meeting: 2nd- 6th December, 2013, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Details attached INQUA 2013 Early Career Researcher Inter-congress meeting: 2nd- 6th December, 2013 for MSc, PhD Candidates and Early…
Continue ReadingAQUA is offering two $500 travel prizes to fund attendance for the INQUA ECR inter-congress meeting at the University of Wollongong from the 2-6th of December, 2013. The AQUA prizes are additional to those offered by the meeting organizers, which attendees are also encouraged to apply for. Download the Austalasian Quaternary Association INQUA ECR travel…
Continue ReadingAustralian Earth Sciences Convention — AESC 2014 INVITATION TO SUBMIT SESSION PROPOSALS You have less than 4 weeks to submit your suggestions for dedicated sessions during the scientific program. Sessions may be in any of the six general themes (Energy; Resources; Environment; Service and Community; Dynamic Planet; Living Earth). Be quick…
Continue ReadingEaster 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…
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