Programmes and abstracts of previous IQUA symposia are being made available here on an ongoing basis, beginning with our most recent symposia.
| Symposia Date | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn 2024 | Peatlands: Past, Present, and Future | Spring 2024 |
| Spring 2024 | Held on Saturday 27th April in Ulster University | Spring 2024 |
| Autumn 2023 | Marginal Environments: Processes, Use, and Resilience | Autumn 2023 |
| Spring 2023 | Held on Saturday 25th March in University College Cork | Spring 2023 |
| Autumn 2022 | "Research from the past, Impact for the future" | Autumn 2022 |
| Spring 2022 | Held on Saturday 30th April in Queen's University Belfast | Spring 2022 |
| Autumn 2021 | "Abrupt Change in the Quaternary" | Autumn 2021 |
| Spring 2021 | Held online on the 16th of April | Spring 2021 |
| Autumn 2020 | "Carbon Sequestration" | Autumn 2020 |
| Autumn 2019 | "A selection from INQUA" | Autumn 2019 |
| Spring 2019 | Held in the National Botanics Garden in Glasnevin, Dublin and followed by a public event entitled "Ireland and the Ice Age" | Spring 2019 |
| Autumn 2018 | "Ireland's Offshore Quaternary Records" | -- |
| Spring 2018 | Held on Saturday 21st April in the Hunt Museum, Limerick | Spring 2018 |
| Autumn 2017 | "Drainage in Glacial Landscapes" | Autumn 2017 |
| Autumn 2016 | "Early Human Occupation of Ireland" | Autumn 2016 |
| Spring 2016 | Held on Saturday 9th April at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, Ulster of University (Coleraine campus). A field trip was run on Sunday morning (April 10th) to see coastal sights of interest. | Spring 2016 |
| Autumn 2015 | The IGGy Early Career Workshop and the Third IGGy Scientific Workshop “Extreme Events (a geomorphological perspective)” took place on the 25th & 26th of November, in conjunction with the “Extreme Earth: Events That Shaped the Quaternary” IQUA Annual Symposium 2015 was on Friday 27th November. | Autumn 2015 |
| Spring 2015 | Held in Maynooth University | Spring 2015 |
| Autumn 2014 | Lakes: Reflections of Our Past | Autumn 2014 |
| Autumn 2013 | Theme:”Dating the Quaternary”. Keynote address: “Annually-resolved records of marine climate change from the longest-lived animals on earth” by Prof. James Scourse. | Autumn 2013 |
| Spring 2013 | Keynote address: “Palaeoecology: Distant Places, New Perspectives” by Prof. Michael O’Connell, Palaeoenvironmental Research Unit, School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway. | Spring 2013 |
| Autumn 2012 | Theme: “Remote sensing: Applications in Quaternary Science, Archaeology and Landscape Management”. Keynote address: “Advancing the documentation of buried and submerged archaeological landscapes” by Prof. Michael Doneus, Director of the Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science and Deputy-Director and Key-Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology. | Autumn 2012 |
| Spring 2012 | Keynote address: “Reliability of radiocarbon dating mollusc shells from Irish sites” by Prof. Paula J. Reimer, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast | Spring 2012 |
| Spring 2011 | Held in Trinity College Dublin | Spring 2011 |