[Aqualist] SHeMAX 2.0

[Scott Mooney]

A message from jasper.knight at wits.ac.za<mailto:jasper.knight at wits.ac.za>



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 was 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 – the message is going to AQUA, SASQUA for circulation, and the new Chilean Quaternary association SOCHICUA (congratulations on getting this going Ignacio)!



It has been 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



Prof Jasper Knight, FRSSAf

Professor of Physical Geography

Editor, Journal of Geography Education in Africa

Associate Editor, Journal of Maps

Associate Editor, Land Degradation and Development

Editorial Board, Geomorphology

University of the Witwatersrand

School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies

Private Bag 3

Wits 2050

Johannesburg

South Africa

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jasper.knight at wits.ac.za<mailto:jasper.knight at wits.ac.za>




A/Prof Scott Mooney FIAG, SFHEA

Deputy Head of School
School of BEES
Faculty of Science
UNSW AUSTRALIA

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