[Aqualist] SHeMAX - the next step

[Scott Mooney]

I’ll do it now but last time I tried the list doesn’t accept attachments…

also I think anyone can post: but goes through a moderator… Aqualist at anu.edu.au<mailto:Aqualist at anu.edu.au>

another alt. is to put it onto the AQUA Facebook page… which has more members than AQUA!

best wishes
sdm


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From: Jasper Knight <Jasper.Knight at wits.ac.za>
Date: Thursday, 3 August 2023 at 2:20 am
To: Scott Mooney <s.mooney at unsw.edu.au>
Subject: SHeMAX - the next step
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Dear Scott, could you please send this message through Aqualist to all AQUA members? (I don’t want to be cheeky and send it directly!)

Thanks a lot! Jasper

From: Jasper Knight
Sent: Wednesday, 02 August 2023 11:50
Cc: Jamie Shulmeister <james.shulmeister at canterbury.ac.nz>; 'Lydia Mackenzie' <lydia.mackenzie at outlook.com>
Subject: SHeMAX - the next step


Dear colleagues,



Thank you very much for your willingness and enthusiasm for hearing more about the next step of SHeMAX v. 2.0, SHeMAX : the sequel etc. This email is being sent to all those who had attended the informal face-to-face meeting held at INQUA, and all those who had contacted us by email afterwards (41 people). Please feel free to circulate to any other interested Quaternary researchers or groups – I will send this to AQUA and SASQUA for circulation, for example. Ignacio will also send this to the new Chilean Quaternary association SOCHICUA, congratulations on getting this going Ignacio!



A brief summary of the informal meeting is attached, compiled by me and checked by Jamie and Lydia, cced here. As indicated, it was suggested that we focus on warm periods (both long or short) of MIS1 to 5 inclusively. Lydia has come up with a short form to capture a database of people who would like to get involved in this new project. If you would like to do this, please complete the form available at  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemylCcKM00YZ4kOwfrlTEbPUIqLrsXhvDfq9G0tUUSVxm13Q/viewform?usp=sf_link so then we have an idea of who/what/where etc. Please can you complete this within the next couple of weeks or so, by mid August. Completing this form does not compel you to do anything however, it will merely allow us to have an overview of our spatial/thematic coverage. It will also help us identify and zoom in on a small steering committee. The reason for this is that I intend to submit an INQUA project application, deadline 30 Sept, on behalf of the group, for this new project and to run in the intercongress period 2024-7, and they need some kind of a steering committee. I am hoping however that when we actually get into the project, we can have specific working groups led by specific people.



Also, a reminder that there is a Special Issue of Journal of Quaternary Science on the thematic area of the SHeMAX project, as a tribute to Lynda Petherick. This is under the broad title ‘Southern Hemisphere records of Late Quaternary climate change, people and dust’. (Please don’t be put off if you are not a dust person.) Please see the information here >> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991417/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2023-000654 - again, feel free to circulate to any interested colleagues!



If you have any questions, please email or feel free to Teams/Zoom me as this may be easier.



Thanks, Jasper



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