IQUA Spring Meeting 2018 – ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’

As indicated before Xmas we plan on having the IQUA Spring Meeting in the Hunt Museum, Limerick on April 21st

Our spring meeting is generally focussed on postgraduate research – so we would like to invite members who would like to make a presentation (oral or poster) to let me know.  We are also planning on a few new initiatives this year, the first of many in the lead up to INQUA 2019 (www.inqua2019.org/).

To this end we plan on adding a selection of talks celebrating key Quaternary Scientists to the Spring Meeting programme (including Frank Mitchell, Sydney Mary Thompson, Bill Watts, Valerie Hall and Robert Lloyd Praeger).  These talks will subsequently form the core of a booklet to be published by IQUA.

We would like to invite IQUA members to contribute short papers on OTHER Quaternary Scientists to this booklet.

Please send your suggestions to catherine.dalton@mic.ul.ie or eocarro@tcd.ie by April 1st 2018.

Deadline for submissions of papers will be June 30th  2018.

 

 

IQUA Symposium 2017: Drainage in Glacial Landscapes

The IQUA Symposium 2017 “Drainage in Glacial Landscapes” which will be held on Friday the 24th of November

in the GSI lecture theatre. Registration from 9:30am.
To whet your appetite, here are some teasers for tomorrow’s talks – it certainly looks like it will be a fascinating day!

John Lowe explores the difficulty of timing the Younger Dryas readvance in the Scottish Highlands.

Susan Hegarty revisits the late glacial meltwater channels in county Kilkenny.

Robbie Meehan will try to untangle the Rathcroghan Uplands landscape from county Roscommon. Non-glacial drainage in glacially moulded landscape.

Jasper Knight reviews the eskers from North-Central Ireland.

Ro Charlton reveals the glacial influence of Holocene drainage in the Shannon basin.

Mike Philcox reviews the story of the Glacial Lake at Blessington.

Anthony Beese describes a late-glacial boulder deposit in Tipperary.

Robert Devoy and Pete Coxon join forces to unpeel the interglacial sequences of the lower Lee estuary.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Back flyer Iqua symposium 2017
Front flyer Iqua symposium 2017