Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)
ausquaternary.bsky.social
Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)
@ausquaternary.bsky.social
We are AQUA! Australia and New Zealand's organisation for people interested in our most recent (and current) geological period: the Quaternary

Find us here:
https://aqua.org.au/
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Did you know that giant clam shells are excellent high-resolution past climate archives? Check out the first publication from Bohao Dong's PhD! A review of giant clam sclerochronology #ProudSupervisor #palaeoclimate @ciehf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Advances in giant clam (Tridacnidae spp.) sclerochronology and sclerochemistry as a high-resolution palaeoenvironmental archive
Reconstructions of Quaternary environmental change using high-resolution proxies are important for testing and refining climate models to enable bette…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I had a great time at the WISH workshop at Uni Canterbury field station. Australian and NZ researchers got together to discuss warm intervals in the southern hemisphere and how we can progress our knowledge on interglacials, rates of change and impacts on people #climatechange #palaeoclimatology
February 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Great to have @hcadd.bsky.social visit GNS this past week! 🧪

We've converted the code we developed for Cadd et al. (2021) into an R package. doi.org/10.1017/qua....

Conduct monte-carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate data, with age uncertainty! github.com/h-cadd/MCCPT
GitHub - h-cadd/MCCPT: Conduct Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate records
Conduct Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate records - h-cadd/MCCPT
github.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct | by Sam Arman
theconversation.com/new-study-ch...
New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct
Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The cause has been the subject of fierce debate.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago
Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.
www.science.org
November 17, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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i'm hiring an assistant lecturer (3 years - mostly research, some teaching) to join the monash geomorph lab - please see the job posting and my listserv emails for more info and/or get in touch! please share widely! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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December 9, 2024 at 7:01 PM
pleased to say the latest issue of QA (Quaternary Australasia) is now out!

aqua.org.au/quaternary-a...
December 13, 2024 at 2:20 AM
The venerable @bluerehn.bsky.social has put together a starter pack for following some Quaternary researchers across Australia and New Zealand. Check it out!
One for the Quaternary folks!

Here are some of the researchers working in the many fields that form #Quaternary science across Australasia. Please let me know who I've missed, or if I've missed you!

go.bsky.app/Lt9yvgX
December 13, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Hello Bluesky! We know you have been lost without us but AQUA is finally here!!

Tell all your friends and follow along for updates on all things Quaternary : )
December 13, 2024 at 2:13 AM