A reminder for this guest lecture. We are really excited to host Kirsty & Marc from NEaar (North East Amino Acid Racemization) laboratory at the University of York. Fri 18th Oct at 4.30 With thanks to @quaternaryra.bsky.social for sponsoring the event!

Roll up (your trousers?) & come & explore what’s in the mud beneath your feet with us on the 25th Sept 2024 6:00-8:30 pm in the wonderful Manchester Museum building during the #WildResearchersNight #mud #geography #Quaternary #pollen #sand

Recent article in The Conversation by @abistone.bsky.social & colleagues of the S.A.N.D.S. research project #archaeology #desert #NamibSandSea #Namibia #MiddleStoneAge #luminescencedatinf

And thank you to Chris Field & Anna Keightley for talking us through the spaghnum farming & Care-Peat project work vb.nweurope.eu/projects/pro...

Stop 3: we are in the Manchester mosses at Little Woolden Moss. Jonathan Lageard talks us through the bog oaks & their dendrochronology from the wider region

Stop 2: looking out across at a landslide, with thanks to Brandon from National Highways for explaining the stabilisation approaches here

Stop 1: Lumb Mill in the Irwell Valley to view erratics and some unearthed organics from the BA. Then walking along a hypothesised kame terrace & viewing a WW1 zeppelin bomb site

The post ADM QRA24 fieldtrip is underway, starting up in the Irwell Valley near Lumb

Our final speaker Jane Hart looking at how to quantify subglacial processes in soft bedded glaciers with some fabulous field kit & thanks to Jane for all her ongoing work as President of @quaternaryra.bsky.social

Amy Lally with stunning imagery from UAVs for the retreat of ice in SE Iceland at fantastic spatial resolution

Carla Huynh takes us to southernmost Patagonia to explore two palaeo-paradoxes & ideas about how to resolve them

Sam Kelleytakes us to the Cairngorms, asking when & where the last ice left the landscape & how it might link to mesolithic archaeology

Niall Gandy continues with the simulation theme, to think about how we model ice streams & some concerns about scaling

(Catch up) Irene Waajen presented a fantastic record through the Brown Bank Formation, which records the MIS5-4 transition in the North Sea

Jeremy Ely taking us into the world of model simulations, in the context of the Greenland Ice Sheet

More from PalGlac on Scandinavian Ice Sheet from Ben Boyes using wonderful LiDAR imagery to reconstruct ice marginal patterns, ice dammed lake dams, meltwater route formlines and bedform flowsets

Helen Dulfer presenting work as part of PalGlac project about reconstructing the former ice margin(s) of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet

Gwyn Rivers shares wonderful imagery & insights into the formation of De Geer Moraines and Crevasse-Squeeze Ridges Have a look at 2023 paper ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

QEG’s Phil Hughes (& our Geography UoM HoD) takes us to the High Atlas to investigate Pleistocene & Holocene glaciation

Neil McDonald exploring Minch palaeo-ice stream laminations You can read more ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.qs...

Louise Callard took us to the NE Greenland Ice Stream, using marine core sediments to reconstruct ice-ocean interactions over the past 19,000 years using marine cores

Rosie Archer and Tessa Spano exploring the barriers to talking about barriers to women’s inclusion in Quaternary Science & Geoscience more broadly

First up in session 4 is Becky Briant exploring the problems of parachute science and the vital impetus for ensuring ethical and equitable knowledge production

Will Fletcher (QEG) Holcroft Moss - impact of the industrial revolution on ecology of this peat bog, proximal to Manchester. He shares some of historical artwork that captures this before presenting abiotic & biotic proxies from the peat explore the record further here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Back to Diss Mere with @lauraboyall.bsky.social The record shows an increase in anthropogenic activity through time. Iron age land use change (deforestation) and then a further intensification during building of the market town.

Dael Sassoon from QEG presenting his PhD work on Amazonian Peatlands. High-res palynology & geochemistry to reconstruct vegetation change & the flooding regime Read more ⬇️ doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

Kaja Fenn showing how zircon grain geochemistry points to a variety of sources/provenances of Danubian Loess More here doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Tony Brown talking sedaDNA for Holocene records in the UK

A preponderance of pingos?! Records spanning 14.7 ka

Lastly in this session, it’s time for #pingos and their organic-rich sedimentary records with Wim Hoek

Poppy Harding takes us to SE Siberia, a region currently very susceptible to climatic change. The diatom record in Lake Baunt (lake has a small catchment giving a regional-to-local insight) from 35 to 5 cal Kyr B.P.

Helen Roe presenting about the Mazama Tephra across the NW of North America, with 3 research questions about the season of eruption, the duration of eruption & its climatic impacts

Shuang Zhang presents tephrostratigraphy in the Eastern Mediterranean with 3 key regions compared: western terrestrial, the Agean region & E Anatolian

Denise Becker continues the tephrochronology theme, this time in NW Europe and some ultra-distal sites for Icelandic tephra

Some of this work is published by Martin-Jones et al. (2020) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@chslane.bsky.social exploring the quasi-laminations of Lake Chala and the cryptotephra record

We are heading to stratigraphic records for session 2 now #QRA24

Now to the wonderfully laminated sediments at Diss Mere to close session 1 with Simon Blockley Cryptotephra & 14C with a Bayesian model to constrain the ‘floating’ varve chronology

And now Mark Bateman for some more luminescence dating, thinking about challenges of dating in glacial settings, and the importance of choosing the right grains

David Hatton exploring offsets between radiocarbon and 210Pb dating in three lakes in eastern Canada over the last ~300 years.

Next; aminostratigraphy with Ellie Nelson, also from NEaarLab talking about using snail opercular 🐌 as part of the EQuaTe project sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...

And next Marc Dickson from www.york.ac.uk/palaeo/servi... talking about amino acid dating in teeth, with some wonderful UK & South African examples

First up @abistone.bsky.social presenting on behalf of Shashank Nitundil of @qeguom.bsky.social about portable luminescence reader approaches to dune dating. These reveal Holocene linear dune accumulation in the western Thar

Session 1 is all about chronology with “Dating Techniques and their Applications”

We’re excited to hear from Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen next here at #QRA24. She will take us to the wonderful world of ice cores from Greenland

And congratulations to Prof. Mary Edwards on the awarding of the James Croll medal

Congratulations to Jeremy Ely and Dulce Oliveria on being awarded this years Lewis Penny Medal!

Our Dorethea Bate award went to Dave Aditi, and Samuel Hudson was highly commended, congratulations!

Congratulations to our Winifred Pennington-Tutin winners for their undergraduate dissertations!

Congratulations to Dr Sophie Williams on being awarded the Richard West Award!