XXI INQUA Congress, Rome 2023

Next week the QEG (Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology) research group from the University of Manchester are off to Rome for the 21st INQUA Congress, hosted in Rome.

A big thank you to the QRA for an INQUA 2023 Travel Grant!

I’ll be:

(1) Convening Session 183 “Frontiers in Drylands Research” in Thematic Block 2 (Landforms…), which is on Mon 17th July 4:15pm-6:15pm in Room I – Lettere CU003. Posters for our session are earlier in the day from 2:45-3:45pm in Poster Room MAC – Lettere CU003.

(2) Presenting (Oral) in Session 58 “The new challenges for luminescence dating” in Thematic Block 6 (The Quaternary Time Machine), which is on Mon 17th July 11:00am-1:00pm in Room Careri – Fisica CU013. I am speaking at 12:30pm.

(3) Presenting (Poster) in Session 21 “Records of climate change from MIS 3 and MIS 2 in the Southern Hemisphere: The Lynda Petherick Memorial Session”, which is on Sat 15th July, with posters 2:45-3:45pm in Poster Room MUST 1 – Scienze della Terra CU005, and later in the day, there are oral presentations 4:15pm-6:15pm in Room XI Moro – Legge CU002. For this poster “Southern African dryland environments within SHeMAX: Towards terrestrial regional chronostratigraphic frameworks during the last global glacial.” there are some links here of supplementary information.

Table 1: Location of proxy sites on the map (Fig. 1 on poster) and Fig. 2 (on poster).

Table 2: The 10 dryland archive types and their proxies (from Stone (2021))

Table 3: Preliminary chronostratigraphy for the past 64 ka (extracted from 190 ka record in Stone (2021)).

(4) Presenting (Poster) as part of the S.A.N.D.S. team in Session 30 “A multiscale geoarchaeological approach for the interpretation of palaeo-landscapes and human activities”, which is on Sat 15th July, with posters 2:45-3:45pm in Poster Room MAC – Lettere CU003. The poster is led by Dom Stratford.

Leave a comment