[Aqualist] Recipients of the 2015 AQUA Travel Award

[Steven J Phipps]

Every four years, AQUA offers awards to assist early-career researchers in 
attending the INQUA Congress. This year, AQUA offered four grants of AUD 
2250 each to cover the costs of travel to the XIX INQUA Congress in 
Nagoya, Japan.

A total of 36 applications were received. The judging was tough, but four 
of the applicants emerged as the clear winners. We are therefore pleased 
to announce that the recipients of the 2015 AQUA Travel Award are, in 
alphabetical order:

Shaun Eaves, Victoria University of Wellington: Uniform summertime cooling 
drove glacier advances across New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold 
Reversal

Jessica Hinojosa, University of Otago: Holocene evolution of marine 
radiocarbon reservoir ages offshore southwest New Zealand: Implications 
for water mass migration and radiocarbon dating accuracy

Claire Krause, Australian National University: New insights on tropical 
vegetation productivity and atmospheric methane over the last 40,000 years 
from speleothems in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Jennifer Wurtzel, Australian National University: Holocene climate 
variability recorded in a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia

We congratulate these four outstanding young scientists, who will all be 
wonderful ambassadors for the Australasian research community.

These grants are the largest awards offered by AQUA. However, AQUA has a 
very strong philosophy of supporting early-career researchers and offers 
smaller awards and prizes every year. For younger scientists, AQUA 
membership can therefore be particularly worthwhile. For more established 
scientists, it is your ongoing membership that makes all this possible. 
Only with the support of the wider community can we continue to support 
the next generation of Quaternary scientists.

For more information about AQUA, please visit our website: 
http://aqua.org.au/