QEG

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....

Nice lake this, Anson & Poppy -
the smaller neighbour to Baikal

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