[Aqualist] The African Quaternary: environments, ecology and humans (AfQUA)

[Brian Chase]

Dear Colleagues,

The inaugural AfQUA (The African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and
Humans) will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa from 30
Jan 2015 – 7th February 2015.

While clearly having an African focus, we will be actively fostering
presentations and discussions that link data and records with larger
systems, including inter- and intra-hemispheric teleconnections. This
conference will be hosted by the Southern African Society for Quaternary
Research, and as many talks will thus have a Southern Hemisphere
perspective, the participation of researchers from Australasia and South
America will be particularly welcome.

 We thereby cordially invite you  to submit presentation
<http://afqua2015.com/abstracts/> abstracts and
<http://afqua2015.com/registration-2/> register for the conference. All
relevant information can be found in the attached circular or at
<http://afqua2015.com/> http://afqua2015.com/.

Important dates

15th September 2014 – abstract submission closes

15th September 2014 – deadline for financial support
30th September 2014 – confirmation of abstract acceptance
30th September 2014 – early bird payment closes
1st November 2014 – final deadline for all registrations and fee payments

 

Oral and poster presentations will be primarily organised into general
sessions according to topic, and it is not necessary for presenters to
conform their abstracts to a particular session. In addition, there will
also be a series of Focus Sessions, which will highlight particular research
themes, including:

*         African ecology in context 

*         Dating and correlation of African archives of environmental change
and archaeology

*         African landscape evolution in the Late Quaternary: linking data
to environment 

*         Molecular-isotopic studies of modern ecosystems and palaeoclimatic
changes in Africa

*         Quaternary human-environment interactions in Africa:
archaeological, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives

*         Charcoal and macro-botanical remains

*         African climates and environments of the last 2,000 years

*         Climate Change in the African Sector of the Southern Hemisphere
over the past 60 kyr: intra- and inter-hemispheric patterns and linkages 

More information on these Focus Sessions can be found in the attached
circular and on the  <http://afqua2015.com/> conference website, and
additional sessions may be added, with updates being disseminated
separately. If you would like your presentation to be part of a Focus
Session, please select the session in the drop down menu of the
<http://afqua2015.com/registration/> online registration form.

The AfQUA 2015 Programme Committee will consider the submitted abstracts and
forward Focus Session abstracts to the relevant convenors. 

 

Please inform your colleagues about these opportunities, and we hope to see
you in Cape Town!

 

In case any questions arise, please contact  <mailto:afqua2015 at gmail.com>
afqua2015 at gmail.com

 

With kind regards,

Brian

 

 

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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