[Aqualist] Australasian INTIMATE

[Chris Turney]

Hi Everyone,

The Australasian INTIMATE project stands for the 'INTegration of Ice,  
MArine and TErrestrial records of the Last Glacial Maximum and  
Termination.' The project aims to integrate data sets from ice core,  
marine and land records to produce a series of palaeoenvironmental  
maps of the southwest Pacific region for the interval between the  
Last Glacial Maximum and the Early Holocene and to study the ice-sea- 
atmosphere interactions and feedbacks during the Last Glacial- 
Interglacial Transition.  This is a core programme of the INQUA  
Palaeoclimate Commission and is complementary to another project of  
the same name running in the North Atlantic region (http:// 
www.geog.uu.nl/fg/INTIMATE/).  Some members of the Australian and New  
Zealand Quaternary community met in 2004 to start the INTIMATE  
programme and reports from these can be found at http:// 
www.aqua.org.au/AQUA/frames_INTIMATE.html and http:// 
www.paleoclimate.org.nz/intimate_project.html.

Although the project has started, INTIMATE is continuing to roll  
forward and anyone who has interests in the above aims is keenly  
encouraged to take part.  If this sounds of interest and you would  
like to be put on the mailing list and/or would like to take an  
active part, please don't hesitate to contact myself or Jamie  
Shulmeister for further details (james.shulmeister at canterbury.ac.nz).

With best wishes,

Chris
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Dr. Chris Turney
President to the INQUA Sub-Commission for Tephrochronology and Volcanism
(SCOTAV)
Web page: http://www.gns.cri.nz/inquatephra/
Tephra extraction techniques virtual workshop:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/arcpal/Tephra/Tephratrace/Home.htm

See images of Homo floresiensis ('the Hobbit') at http:// 
www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/geoquest/hf/hf_images.html

Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong
NSW 2522
Australia

Home page: http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/staff/cturney/ct.html
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