[Aqualist] Conference of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, November 2012

[David Lowe]

Reminder: AQUA's Quaternary symposium at the forthcoming Geoscience
Society of New Zealand annual conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 25-28
Nov 2012

The deadline for submitting abstracts and registering at the 'early
bird' rates is fast approaching: Friday 14 September.

The GSNZ conference, being held on the picturesque University of
Waikato campus in Hamilton, includes a Quaternary symposium that will
include presentations (oral and poster) relating to AQUAS's
AUS-INTIMATE project. AQUA members and Quaternarists are very welcome
to attend and to present papers in this Quaternary symposium.
Convenors are David Lowe, Rewi Newnham, and Peter Almond. The
conference also includes a range of pre- and post-conference field
trips in the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and King Country regions.

Plenaries
Plenary speakers for the conference include Dr David Barrell (GNS
Science), who will present a talk entitled “Wrinkles in time: putting
the New Zealand glacier landform record of climate change on the world
map”. Professor Peter Kamp(Waikato University) will give another
plenary talk entitled “Numerical model of the evolution of the modern
plate boundary system in New Zealand coupled with Cenozoic
palaeogeography”.

In response to the recent volcanic activity on Tongariro, a special
mid-conference plenary session, “Scientific developments on 2012
volcanic activity on Tongariro”, is planned. It will feature two
plenary speakers, Prof Shane Cronin (Massey University), who will talk
on “Volcanic products and eruption processes of the 2012 Te Maari
eruption on Tongariro”, and Dr Art Jolly (GNS Science), who will speak
on “Detecting the 2012 Te Maari eruption and subsurface processes with
geophysics and gas chemistry”. This plenary session will lead directly
into a symposium “Scientific developments on 2012 volcanic activity in
New Zealand (Tongariro, Whakaari/White Island, Kermadecs)”.

Public lecture
The conference also includes a free public lecture by Professor Chris
Battershill (Waikato University) entitled “The Rena, and offshore oil
exploration: impacts and preparedness”.

Further information
Further information about the Quaternay session, and other symposia
themes, field trips, registration, social events, and the submission
of abstracts, is available at the conference website
www.geosciences2012.org.nz. Please feel free to contact
David(d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz), or Rewi or Peter, for any further
information about the Quaternary session, or Dr Adrian Pittari
(apittari at waikato.ac.nz), the conference convenor, about the
conference more generally.


On 7/3/12, Kathryn Fitzsimmons <kathryn_fitzsimmons at eva.mpg.de> wrote:
> On behalf of Prof David Lowe:
> Forthcoming conference and AQUA: *Geosciences 2012, Hamilton 25-28
> November*
> The annual conference of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, being
> held at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, in the last
> week of November, 2012, is to feature a Quaternary science symposium
> that additionally includes presentations relating to AQUAS's
> AUS-INTIMATE project. This symposium, "Quaternary records including
> Australasian Quaternary Association INTIMATE project"*,* is being
> convened by David Lowe (Uinversity of Waikato), Rewi Newnham (Victoria
> University of Wellington), and AQUA President Peter Almond (Lincoln
> University). INTIMATE stands for the Integration of ice-core, marine,
> and terrestrial records for Australasia since 30,000 years ago.
> Both New Zealand and Australian participants in this project have been
> preparing papers for a special issue of /Quaternary Science Reviews/
> bringing together the climate event stratigraphies that have been
> developed both for New Zealand and Australia, and a host of related
> papers dealing with (amongst other topics) high-resolution climatic
> change, age modelling, and tephrochronology in the region for the
> past 30,000 years. AQUA members and Quaternarists are very welcome to
> attend and to present papers on these and other topics in this
> Quaternary symposium. Special rates apply for students to attend the
> conferenced, and support for travel costs may also be available.
> For further information please go to the society's website at
> http://www.gsnz.org.nz/ and click on annual conference. Or email David
> Lowe for any further enquiries about the symposium: d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz
> <mailto:d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz>
>   --
> *Professor David J. Lowe* PhD, FRSNZ, FNZSSS
> President, INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and
> Volcanism (INTAV)
> _http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/intav/INQUA-INTAV.html
> _Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
> University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105,
> Hamilton 3240, NEW ZEALAND
> (Street address: Hillcrest Rd, Hamilton)
>
> Work Ph + 64 7 838-4438 (Direct dial)
> Work Ph + 64 7 856-2889 ext 4438 (Uni operator)
> Work Fax + 64 7 856-0115, Home Ph + 64 7 855-0692
> Mobile 021 027 727 07
> E-mail d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz <mailto:d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz>
>
>


-- 
*Professor David J. Lowe* PhD, FRSNZ, FNZSSS
President, INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and
Volcanism (INTAV) *http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/intav/INQUA-INTAV.html
*
Chair, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105
Hamilton 3240, NEW ZEALAND
(Street address: Hillcrest Rd, Hamilton)

Ph + 64 7 838-4438 (Direct dial)
Ph + 64 7 856-2889 ext 4438 (Uni operator)
Ph + 64 7 838-4024 (Dept administrator room E2.07)
Fax + 64 7 856-0115, Home Ph + 64 7 855-0692
Mobile 021 027 727 07
E-mail d.lowe at waikato.ac.nz