Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)

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…

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...

28.01.2025 08:00 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

08.02.2025 02:02 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

GitHub - h-cadd/MCCPT: Conduct Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate records Conduct Monte-Carlo changepoint analysis on paleoclimate records - h-cadd/MCCPT

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

02.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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.

New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct | by Sam Arman
theconversation.com/new-study-ch...

09.01.2025 22:34 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

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.

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/...

17.11.2024 02:04 — 👍 303    🔁 95    💬 2    📌 1

Job Search

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...

09.12.2024 19:01 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

pleased to say the latest issue of QA (Quaternary Australasia) is now out!

aqua.org.au/quaternary-a...

13.12.2024 02:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The venerable @bluerehn.bsky.social has put together a starter pack for following some Quaternary researchers across Australia and New Zealand. Check it out!

13.12.2024 02:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 : )

13.12.2024 02:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0