[Aqualist] INQUA session on high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records

[Amy Prendergast]

Dear Colleagues,
(Apologies for cross posting)

We’d like to invite you to submit an abstract to our special session on “Sub-annual to decadal records of environmental change” at the next INQUA Congress in Dublin, Ireland from 25th-31st July 2019. See detailed session description below.

Abstract submission is open until 9th January 2019. Submit your abstract here<http://www.inqua2019.org/call-for-abstracts/>. Our session is listed under the Palaeoclimate commission.
Some travel bursaries for early career researchers and researchers from developing countries are available. To apply see here<http://www.inqua2019.org/bursaries/>.
Please visit the INQUA 2019 website<http://www.inqua2019.org/> for more info.

Please circulate details to other researchers who may be interested.
Hope to see you in Dublin!
Best Wishes,

Dr Amy Prendergast and A/Prof Russell Drysdale (convenors)
School of Geography, University of Melbourne

Sub-annual to decadal records of environmental change

In the past decade, advances in technology, methodology, model development, and proxy calibration have enabled the extraction of more robust palaeoenvironmental records from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial palaeoenvironmental archives. Many of these archives including mollusc shells, corals, otoliths, speleothems, and tree rings have periodic growth increments. Studying the growth and chemistry of these increments allows the reconstruction of high-resolution, temporally constrained palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental data from varied regions of the globe and are allowing correlations between continental and marine systems. Understanding past climate and environmental change at high-resolution timescales (annual to sub-annual) is important as it allows current and future climate change to be contextualized within long-term frameworks; it provides data for numerical simulations that will allow climate modellers to better predict anthropogenic impacts on the natural climate system; and it facilitates evaluations of the relationship between past environmental changes and human behaviour. This session invites presentations on high-resolution climate and environmental records from marine, terrestrial and freshwater archives. We encourage contributions on both palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, and proxy calibration studies.