Saturday 6th January

Venue: Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University

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


08:45 - 09:15 Coffee


Session 4: Inclusivity in Quaternary Science (1)

Chair: Jane Hart


09:15 - 09:30 Ethical and equitable knowledge production in Quaternary Science. Briant, R.M., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Roland, T.P.


09:30 - 09:45 The barriers to talking about barriers to women’s inclusion in Quaternary Science. Archer, R.E., Spano, T.M.C.



Session 5: Stratigraphic records, including annually laminated records (2)

Chair: Abi Stone


09:45 - 10:00 Molluscan bivalve sclerochronology: unlocking the history of the oceans. Scourse, J.D., Reynolds, D.J., Butler, P.G., Schöne, B., Huang, Q., Halloran, P., Arellano-Nava, B., Penkman, K., Conti, M., Bohmann, K., Roberts, C.


10:00 - 10:15 Revisiting the Quaternary stratigraphy of the southern North Sea. MᶜGuire, A.M., Edwards, M., Woods, L., Busschers, F., Cohen, K., Donders, T.H.#, Waajen, I.M., Smedley, R., Rush, G., Cartelle, V., Hodgson, D., Barlow, N.


10:15 - 10:30 A unique preservation window capturing the cool MIS5-4 transition in the North Sea. Waajen, I.M., Donders, T. H., Busschers, F. S., Van Heteren, S., Peterse, F., Wesselingh, F. P.


10:30 - 10:45 Developing a novel approach to reconstructing palaeoenvironments of the southern North Sea. Edwards, M., Rush, G., McGuire, A., Cartelle, V., Nara, F., Conti M., Maclachlan, S., Hodgson, D., Barlow, N.



10:45 - 11:15 Coffee


Session 6: Glaciation in the Quaternary (1)

Chair: Iestyn Barr


11:15 - 11:30 Reconstructing the ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream over the past 19,000 years using marine cores. Callard, S.L., O'Cofaigh, C., Lloyd. J.M., Smith, J.A., Dorschel, B., Roberts, D.H.


11:30 - 11:45 Elucidating mysteries at the ice-ocean interface: laminated glaciomarine sediments of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet formed through alternating meltwater plume sources (The Minch, NW Scotland). McDonald N., Bradwell, T., Callard, S.L., Toney, J.L., Bonsall E., Ladbrook A., Schröder, C.


11:45 -12:00 Pleistocene and Holocene glaciers in the Marrakech High Atlas, Morocco: new 10Be results. Hughes, P., Bell, B., Fink, D., Fletcher, W., Cornelissen, H., Braithwaite, R., Rhoujjati, A.


12:00 - 12:15 3D morphometry of De Geer Moraines and Crevasse-Squeeze Ridges: Differentiating between pushing and squeezing mechanisms from remotely sensed data. Rivers, G.E., Storrar, R.D., Jones, A.H., Ojala, A.E.K.


12:15 - 12:30 Contrasting regional ice margin dynamics of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet revealed by the landform record. Dulfer, H.E., Boyes, B.M., Dewald, N., Butcher, F.E.G., Clark C.D., Ely J.C., Hughes, A.L.C.


12:30 - 12:45 A new approach for reconstructing the deglaciation pattern of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet across different mapping scales. Boyes, B.M., Dulfer, H.E., Dewald, N., Butcher, F.E.G., Clark C.D.., Ely J.C., Hughes, A.L.C.




12:45 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session



14:00 - 14:30

Session 7: Inclusivity in Quaternary Science continues with a panel discussion.




Session 8: Glaciation in the Quaternary (2)

Chair: Anna Hughes


14:30 - 14:45 Using the past to inform the future: Data calibrated model simulations of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the Last Glacial Maximum to present. Leger, T., Ely, J.C., Clark, C.D., Bradley, S.L., Archer, R.E., Zhu, J.


14:45 - 15:00 Simulations of Ice Stream Frequency and Magnitude Scaling with Ice Sheet Radius. Gandy, N., Storrar R., Ely, J., Veness, R.


15:00 - 15:15 A holistic approach to reconstructing the glacial history of the Cairngorm constrained with in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 14C measurements Kelley, S.E., Doughty, A., Lifton, N., Pendleton, S., O'Brien, C., Warren, G.


15:15 - 15: 30 A tale of two palaeo-paradoxes: contradictory evidence for last glacial cycle chronologies in southernmost Patagonia. Huynh, C., Hein, A., McCulloch, R., Bingham, R.


15:30 - 15:45 Capturing the spatial and temporal evolution of glacial geomorphology using uncrewed autonomous vehicles (UAVs) at Breiðamerkurjökull, southeast Iceland. Lally, A., Ruffell, A., Newton, A.M.W., Rea, B., Spagnolo; M., Storrar; R.D., Kahlert, T., Graham, C.


15:45 - 16:00 Quantifying Subglacial Processes associated with soft bedded glaciers. Hart, J.K., Baurley, N.R, Andrews, A., Martinez, K.


16:00 - 16:15 Closing Remarks