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New 46000-year record of the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon just dropped from deadset legend Teresa Dixon at UQ.
#AusQuaternary #Monsoon #paleoclimate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001410?via%3Dihub
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New 46000-year record of the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon just dropped from deadset legend Teresa Dixon at UQ.
#AusQuaternary #Monsoon #paleoclimate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001410?via%3Dihub
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New 46000-year record of the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon just dropped from deadset legend Teresa Dixon at UQ.
#AusQuaternary #Monsoon #paleoclimate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001410?via%3Dihub
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New 46000-year record of the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon just dropped from deadset legend Teresa Dixon at UQ.
#AusQuaternary #Monsoon #paleoclimate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001410?via%3Dihub
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New 46000-year record of the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon just dropped from deadset legend Teresa Dixon at UQ.
#AusQuaternary #Monsoon #paleoclimate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226001410?via%3Dihub
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The latest issue of Quaternary Australasia is fresh of the press and should have landed in members' inboxes. The QA Editors do a wonderful job, without fail. A highlight for me, as always, is the Quaternary Arts section - this issue features a brilliant poem by Colin Murray-Wallace, where he manages to rhyme 'hiatus' with 'frustrate us' - which is perfect on so many levels.
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Proposed cuts at #ANSTO look very likely to affect the Australian Quaternary community - worryingly via ceasing expert support for 14C dating. I wonder what proportion of Australian quaternarists have leaned on ANSTO facilities? I'm going to guess all of us!
There is still oportunity to make comment, more details in this quite hidden press release:
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Applications for the Leanne Armand award are now open. This award funds early and mid-career researchers based in Australia to access training in micropaleonotology. Applications are due 28th September, all details can be found on the AQUA website: https://aqua.org.au/sample-page/the-leanne-armand-travel-award/
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Interesting paper out recently in ClimPast - subaquous speleothems record groundwater recharge in Mairs Cave, South Australia.
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I missed this the first time 'round in THE last month - "Earth science is critical to national resilience – so why is it being gutted?" The AQUA executive asked ourselves a similar question a couple of years ago, leading to this open letter published in QA Vol. 40 (now OA, so no guillt about sharing the snip!)
QA Vol. 40: https://aqua.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1968%20AQUA%20Quaternary%20Vol%2040%20December%202023.pdf
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Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...
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Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...
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Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...
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Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...
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Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...
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AQUA runs a mentoring program, which is largely just a matching service and then mentors and mentees are expected to do the heavy lifting of actually meeting without much involvement from us. All this to say, that the excellent feedback I just read from mentors and mentees isn't a reflection on the mentoring program per se, but rather on the bloody excellent community we have, full of people willing to help one another just because. That really got me right in the feels.
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Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!
#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate
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Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!
#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate
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Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!
#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate
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Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!
#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate
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Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!
#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate
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Wonderful to see 11 ARC Discovery Projects awarded to Quaternary projects in Australia! This must be a record for recent years/rounds.
Sleuthing thanks to Prof Simon Haberle at the ANU via the aqualist.
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A who's who of Australian palynologists and palaeoecologists present this recent paper in Science, finding that colonisation has affected fire regimes in Australia by causing greater shrub density.
Comprehensive, and I love to see colleagues and friends get a "big" paper in the bag!
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Quaternary science in the news! Coastal peat found in southern Western Australia dated to >6 ka. Seems like a cool project involving Traditional Owners, archaeologists, and palaeoenvironmental scientists (including AQUA's president and manager of #UNSW #CHRONOS radiocarbon lab, Tim Barrows).
#AusQuaternary #palaeoenvironment #peat #Australia #WesternAustralia.
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The AINSE Annual report for 2023 is out, and it's great to see so many Quaternary ECRs highlighted (3/4 of the geoscience, archeology, and environmental science contributions!). AINSE have been a huge supporter of my research, as both a PhD student and a postdoc, and I'm grateful for their help. You can read this year's report here, including a summary of some of the research I've been doing in the last few years:
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A whopping 91 abstracts submitted for the AQUA conference this year! Students and ECRs leading the charge, contributing 70% of the abstracts :)
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Registration for #AQUA24 is now open! I'm really looking forward to hanging out with all the Australasian quaternarists on lovely Minjerribah :)
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Wonderful article on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the remains of Mungo Man at the Willandra Lakes by Jim Bowler. This was a monumental moment for Australian archaeology and Quaternary science, which changed white folks' understanding of Indigenous occupation of and care for Australia forever.
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Australasian quaternarists will be happy to see that the call for abstracts for #AQUA2024 has been opened! AQUA is also offering student travel awards - all the details are slowly emerging on both the website and the mailing list.
https://aqua.org.au/conference/aqua-2024/
#AusQuaternary #conference #CallForAbstracts #Quaternary #palaeoscience
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Cool new cave research out today in #Nature! Weij et al. find that in southern Australia glacial periods tend to be moist, contrary to the currently held view that glacial periods are cool and dry in the subtropics.
Neat work from Rieneke and a bunch of Aussie quaternarists!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06989-3
#palaeoclimate #paleoclimate #LGM #glacial #Australia #AusQuaternary
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FYI Australasian quaternarists, there is AQUA news!
1. Membership is due (we run on the calendar year) - join or renew here: https://aqua.org.au/membership/become-an-aqua-member/
2. The AGM is coming up! If you have some ideas about how AQUA should be run, consider joining the executive - it's a friendly bunch. To stay abrest, join the mailing list: https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/aqualist
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AQUA members will have received the 40th anniversary edition of Quaternary Australasia in their inboxes last week. As part of this bumper edition, the AQUA executive penned an open letter re. the future of the geosciences in Aus and NZ. Really proud to be part of an organisation that consistently tries to do some good for our community.
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First call for session themes and workshops for the Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) meeting on Minjerribah next year. It is bound to be a good time, in a beautiful spot. Come and join us!
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Happily, AQUA plans to run our mentoring program again in 2024. If you are a Quaternary scientist working in Australasia and interested in being either a mentor or mentee, please check out all the details here:
https://aqua.org.au/2024-mentoring-program/
Please feel free to share with colleagues and students who may be interested.
#AusQuaternary #Quaternary #paleoenvironment #paleoclimate #academia
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More Quaternarists winning ARC funding! This time 'round, Haidee Cadd at Uni of Wollongong has a funded DECRA to research key fire drivers in Australia 🔥 More friends kicking goals 🙌
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This December AQUA is celebrating 40 years of 'Quaternary Australasia', our twice-yearly journal which publishes all things Quaternary. The call for submissions just opened, and the editors are encouraging submissions that celebrate 40 years of the magazine - which promped me to go and flick through the first issue, which tuns out to be a bumper edition detailing how Australian Quaternarists had lobbied Fraser to protect the Franklin!
Worth a read: https://aqua.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/QA_Vol-1_No1_Aug-1983.pdf
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Applications are now open for the Leanne Armand Travel Award. The award honours the late Prof. Leanne Armand, and aims to facilitate Australia-based ECRs and MCRs to become microfossil experts. Applications are due COB September 15, more details at the link below.
https://aqua.org.au/sample-page/the-leanne-armand-travel-award/
#AusQuaternary #palaeontology #microfossil #diatom #palaeoclimate #ECR #MCR #PhDChat
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So great to see some quaternary science in the funded #FutureFellow list!
#AusQuaternary #Quaternary #ARCFutureFellow
https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/1b0c8b2e-7bb0-4f2d-8f52-ad207cfbb41d/249
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Happy that the report I co-authored on the demographics of the Australasian quaternary community has been published in the current edition of Quaternary Australasia. It was kind of a bummer to write, but if we don't document these things we won't know if things are getting better.
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Australian underwater archaeology is booming right now. New site discovered in #Murujuga found to be ~9 000 years old - "It goes to show that our culture and our connection to this country hasn't been severed and we still got it today."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-28/underwater-ancient-aboriginal-discovery-pilbara-wa/102529502