Friday 5th January

Venue: Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University

A full programme book is also available, containing all abstracts.


08:30 - 09:15 Coffee and registration

09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks


Session 1: Dating techniques and their applications

Chair: Chris Darvill


09:30 - 09:45   Improving spatial coverage and resolution when reconstructing dune dynamics in the western Thar Desert, India, using a portable luminescence reader. Nitundil, S., Stone, A., Srivastava A., Kinnaird, T., Songara, K.


09:45 - 10:00 Advances in amino acid dating of Pleistocene mammalian tooth enamel. Dickinson, M., Patinglag, L., Shaw, K., Adams, N., Badenhorst, S., Lister, A., Scott, K., Penkman, K.


10:00-10:15 Aminostratigraphy and chronology of Quaternary fluvial sequences in the Pannonian Basin. Nelson, E. F., Püspöki, Z., White, D., McIntosh R. W., Szappanos B., Fancsik, T.,Penkman, K. E. H.


10:15-10:30 Resolving significant offsets between AMS 14C and 210Pb chronologies in palaeolimnology: applications of Spheroidal Carbonaceous Particles (SCP) Analysis. Hatton, D.A., Roe, H.M., Patterson, R.T., Blaauw, M., Nguyen, A.V., Walsh, C.R., Kumar, A.


10:30 - 10:45 A new approach to the luminescence dating of sediments from glacial contexts. Bateman, M.D., Davies, E., Evans, D.J.A., Roberts, D.H., Connell, E.R., Rhodes, E.J.


10:45 - 11:00 A Bayesian age model for Diss Mere, Norfolk 10.3ka BP to present based on varve counting, radiocarbon dating, 10Be and tephrochronology on the IntCal20 timescale. Blockley, S., Walsh, A., Martin Puertas, C.,  Czymzik, M.



11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break



Session 2: Stratigraphic records, including annually laminated records (1)

Chair: Kathryn Adamson


11:30 -11:45 Resolution matters! Insights from visible and cryptotephra studies on the ~250-kyr laminated sediment record from Lake Chala (Kenya/Tanzania). Lane, C.S., Wynton, H., Martin-Jones, C., Blaauw, M., Mark, D.F., Verschuren, D., Van der Meeren, T.,Van Daele, M., Blegen, N., Kisaka, M., Leng, M., Barker, P.


11:45 - 12:00 Establishing a tephrochronological framework for the Last Interglacial in NW Europe. Becker, D., Barlow, N.L.M., McGuire, A., Lauterbach, S., Neumann F.H., Tjallingii, R., Brauer, A.


12:00 - 12:15 Developing a Late Quaternary marine tephrostratigraphy for the Eastern Mediterranean from  core MD81-LC31: implications for Aegean Volcanic Arc volcanoes. Zhang, S., Armitage, S.J., Satow, C., Manning, C.J., Blockley, S.


12:15 - 12:30 Constraining the season of occurrence and climatic impacts of the Mazama Ash: evidence from laminated marine sediments in the NE Pacific. Roe, H.M., Logan, K.R., Patterson, R.T.


12:30-12:45 Diatom-inferred environmental shifts from south-eastern Siberia from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene. Harding, P., Mackay, A. W.


12:45 - 13:00 14,700 years of climate and environmental change recorded in pingo remnants from the Netherlands. Hoek, W.Z.

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch 


13:45 - 14:45

QRA Keynote Talk: Professor Inger Greve Alsos, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Chair: Will Fletcher


14:45 - 16:00 Poster Presentations and Coffee


Session 3: Detection and analysis of all types of material

Chair: Jamie Woodward


16:00 - 16:15 The status and potential of Holocene sedaDNA in the UK: culture, climate or both? Brown, A.G., van Hardenbroek, M., Mackay, H., Fonville, T., Langdon, P., Whitehouse, N., McCormick, F., Murray, E.,  Barratt, P., Henderson, A., Ficetola, F., Gielly, L., Davies, K., Winther Pedersen, M., Crone, A., Cavers, G., Hudson, S., Pears, B., Greve Alsos, I., Edwards, K.


16:15 - 16:30 Sources and transport mechanisms of Danubian loess. Fenn, K., Millar, I., Veres, D., Bird, A., Wagner, D.


16:30 -16:45 Flooding Variability and Vegetation Dynamics in Amazonian Peatlands: A Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of the San Roque Open Peatland, Peru. Sassoon D., Roucoux K.H., Lawson I.T., Fletcher W.J., Ryan P., Honorio Coronado E.N., Jhon del Aguila, P., Bishop, T., Åkesson C.


16:45 - 17:00 Zonally symmetric shifts of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds. Thomas, Z.A., Cadd, H., Turney, C., Wilmshurst, J., Halim, A., Gadd, P., Parker, R., Marjo, C., Carter, S.,  Brickle, P.


17:00 - 17: 15 Exploring the natural and anthropogenic signals recorded in the Holocene varved record from Diss Mere (UK). Boyall, L., Martin-Puertas, C., Tjallingii, R., Milner, A.


17:00 - 17: 30 Ecological impacts of the industrial revolution at Holcroft Moss, a lowland raised peat bog near Manchester, NW England Fletcher, W.J., Garcés-Pastor, S., Ryan, P.A.




19:00 Conference Dinner, Zouk, Chester St.