[Aqualist] INQUA 2015: New frontiers in ancient midden research (H13)

[Brian Chase]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to bring to your attention a session we are convening for the
upcoming XIX INQUA Congress to be held in Nagoya, Japan from the 27th of
July – 2nd of August, 2015 entitled:

 

New frontiers in ancient midden research (
<http://convention.jtbcom.co.jp/inqua2015/session/h13.html> H13)

 

The use of ancient middens or sub-fossilized deposits left behind by
herbivorous animals and preserved in caves is a relatively recent area of
research that has expanded from the original packrat middens from the US
southwest to become a major tool for exploring the paleoecology of the
world's arid lands. Middens have now been collected and dated from almost
all of the world's major deserts, and new methods (stable isotopes, ancient
DNA, plant and animal macrofossil analyses, pollen analogues, etc.) are
highlighting the enormous potential of these unique biotic archives to
provide rich and robust multi-proxy records of past environmental and
ecological change. In this session, we invite the communication of the
latest research from a broad group of palaeoecologists working in these
deserts to track past changes in tropical and extratropical rainfall
regimes, shifting species ranges and how this information bears on past
human ecology.

 

Please contact one of the conveners if you require further information about
this session, or simply go to the INQUA website and submit your abstract.

Abstracts can be submitted online before December 20, 2014 at:

 <http://convention.jtbcom.co.jp/inqua2015/call_for_abstracts.html>
http://convention.jtbcom.co.jp/inqua2015/call_for_abstracts.html


The latest information is also available from Facebook:
<https://www.facebook.com/INQUA2015> https://www.facebook.com/INQUA2015


Regards, your session conveners


Brian M. Chase [Centre National de Recherche, France]
Claudio Latorre [P. Universidad Católica de Chile]

 

 

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Dr. Brian M. Chase

Research Scientist

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Département
Environnements,

UMR 5554 Université Montpellier 2, Bat.22, CC061, Place Eugène Bataillon,
34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France

Email:  <mailto:Brian.Chase at univ-montp2.fr> Brian.Chase at univ-montp2.fr

Telephone: +33 (0)4 67 14 49 03

 
<http://www.isem.univ-montp2.fr/recherche/equipes/environnement/personnel/ch
ase-brian/> Home page

 <http://www.hyrax.univ-montp2.fr/> European Research Project HYRAX website

and

Associate Professor

Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion,

University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway

email:  <mailto:Brian.Chase at ahkr.uib.no> Brian.Chase at ahkr.uib.no