Venue: Henry Daysh Building, School of Geography, Sociology and Politics, Newcastle University

A full programme book is available, containing all abstracts.

Tuesday 7th January 2025

08:45 - 09:15 Coffee and registration

09:15 - 09:30 Opening remarks

Session 1: Marine Sediments & Landforms (Chairs: Christine Batchelor & Alex Clark)

09:30 - 09:45 The Hardanger Glaciation: A single Early Pleistocene glaciation of the central North Sea. Ottesen, D., Batchelor, C.L., Løseth, H., Brunstad, H.

09:45 - 10:00 Bavelonia: an Early Pleistocene land bridge across the North Sea Southern Bight. McGuire, A., Barlow, N., Edward, M., Cartelle, V., Hodgson, D., Austermann, J., Conti, M., Deckers, M., Donders, T., Rush, G., Smedley, R., Watanabe Nara, F., Wesselingh, F., Wallinga, J., Busschers, F., Cohen, K.

10:00 - 10:15 Order from Chaos: A Geoscience Overview of the Last Glacial Environment in the Eastern Irish Sea. Wood, G., Bellwald, B., Smith, S.A., Vanneste, M., Finlayson, A., Ezenwaka, A., Stevens, D.

10:15 - 10:30 Marine ice sheet instability: collapse or steady retreat? Evidence from The Minch, NW Scotland. McDonald, N., Bradwell, T., Callard, S.L., Toney, J.L.

10:30 - 10:45 Lateglacial and Holocene Palaeoenvironmental history of the Fetlar Basin (Shetland, UK): Insights into the variability of Atlantic water composition in the Northern North Sea. Earland, J.L., Scourse, J.D., Kender, S., Schöne, B., Sengupta, T., Ward, S.L., Bradley, S.L., Blaauw, M., Ascough, P.

10:45 - 11:00 Reconstructing Antarctic phytoplankton changes over the Holocene using sedimentary ancient DNA and fossil diatoms. Greenall, C., Kender, S., Allen, C.S., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Scourse, J.D.

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

Session 2: Terrestrial Landforms & Archives of Change I (Chairs: Andy Russell & Gunjan Silwal)

11:30 - 11:45 Palaeo-ice sheet dynamics in northeast Ireland during the reorganisation and retreat of the central British-Irish Ice Sheet. Clark, A.M., Blockley, S.P.E., Palmer, A.P., Davies, B.J., Roberson, S., Damaschke, M., Matthews, I.P.

11:45 - 12:00 A 23-stage reconstruction of the flow-pattern evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet based on the subglacial lineation record. Butcher, F.E.G., Hughes, A.L.C., Dulfer, H.E., Clark, C.D., Ely, J.C., Lewington, E.L.M., Boyes, B.M., Scoffield, A.C., Howcutt, S., Diemont, C.R.

12:00 - 12:15 Topo-climatic and geological controls on spatial distribution of periglacial ramparted depressions in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Boyes, B.M., Lukas, E.K., Linch, L.D., Burningham, H., Holt-Wilson, T.

12:15 - 12:30 The deglacial history of 79N glacier and the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. Roberts, D.H., Lane, T.P., Jones, R.S., Bentley, M.J., Darvill, C.M., Rodes, A., Smith, J.A., Jamieson, S.S.R., Rea, B.R., Fabel, D., Gheorghiu, D., Davidson, A., O' Cofaigh, C., Lloyd, J.M., Callard, S.L., Humbert, A.

12:30 - 12:45 Searching for paleonunataks in Ireland using in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 14C. Crowell, C., Youngeagle, D., Kelley, S.E., Lifton, N.

12:45 - 13:00 Combining geological (cosmogenic nuclides) and biological (Antarctic springtail) evidence to understand the longevity of ice-free sectors in Antarctica — how useful is it? Cooper, E.-L., Stevens, M.I., Jones, R.S., Mackintosh, A.N.

13:00 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:45 QRA Keynote speaker: Dr Celia Martin-Puertas, Royal Holloway, University of London (Chair: Andy Henderson).

14:45 - 16:00 Poster presentations and coffee

Session 3: Terrestrial Landforms & Archives of Change II (Chairs: Neil Ross & Holly Jenkins)

16:00 - 16:15 Ice-marginal dynamics and processes of moraine formation at two neighbouring plateau icefield outlet glaciers. Pattison, L.A., Newsome-Chandler, B., Lukas, S; van der Heijden, G.

16:15 - 16:30 When the Great Waves came to SW Ireland. Bateman, M.D., Beese, A., Clarke, G., Bradley, S.L.

16:30 - 16:45 Spatio-temporal dynamics of speleothem growth and glaciation in the British Isles. Panitz, S., Rogerson, M., Longman, J., Scroxton, N., Lawson, T.J., Atkinson, T.C., Ersek, V., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., Umbo, S., Lone, M.A., Henderson, G.M., Breitenbach, S.F.M.

16:45 - 17:00 Deciphering Past Rainfall Sources in Northern Sahara: Insights from Multi-Proxy Speleothem Analysis. Lone, M.A., Rogerson, M., Hoffmann, D., Luetscher, M., Spötl, C., Mansoura, M., Kallel, N., Elmejdoub, N., Dublyanski, Y.

17:00 - 17:15 Global and Regional Methane Signals Captured in Ice Core Records from Nevado Huascarán, Peru. Lamantia, K.A., Thompson, L.G., Davis, M.E., Mosley-Thompson, E., Beaudon, E.

17:15 - 17:30 Hyperspectral, microphysical and mineralogical interdisciplinary characterisation of the 224 m long ice core drilled on the Adamello glacier (Italian Alps). Fiorini, D., Delmonte, B., Di Stefano, E., Mangili, C., Andò, S., Cavallo, A., Kaspari, S., Artoni, C., Maggi, V.

17:30 - 19:00 Pre-dinner drinks at Bealim House (17-25 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4SG)

19:00 - Conference dinner at Bealim House