Following recent erosion along the Suffolk coast, EQuaTe team members Richard Preece and Dustin White joined colleagues Tim Holt-Wilson and Mathew Jeffries in sampling fossils from an exposed submarine shell bank of the Norwich Crag. Samples of Nucella, Arctica islandica, Mya arenaria and Macoma obliqua were collected for a number of on-going research projects.

In December members of the project travelled to the Netherlands to meet Leen Hordijk at the Zuurland coring site to collect samples from his latest borehole, Zuurland-23! The trip also included visits to the quarry sections at Maalbeek and Hoher Stahl. Our hosts Frank Wesselingh (Naturalis) and Freek Busschers (TNO) also gave us tours of their research labs where interesting discussions took place regarding upcoming research collaborations. Members of EQuaTe plan to return to the Netherlands for more field sampling in 2023.

Members of the EQuaTe team attended the 2022 UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Meeting hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London. These annual meetings provide a forum for presenting and discussing the latest research in trapped charge dating. Debra presented experimental work "Investigating the low temperature thermoluminescence peak from calcite for monitoring thermal reproducibility".

Members of the EQuaTe team visited Barnham Pit in the summer of 2022 to discuss the progress of the excavations and to collect additional samples, as well as taking measurements for thermoluminescence dating from the centre of the palaeolake. Marc was able to join the team at Barnham for 2 weeks to help with the excavations. 

As part of a collaboration with MONREPOS Archäologisches Forschungszentrum, the EQuaTe team visited the sites of Kärlich and Miesenheim I to collect sediment samples for macrofossil analyses, focusing specifically of the examination of the malacological record and the recovery of calcitic biominerals such as slug plates and worm granules. The team plans to return to the sites in Spring 2023 to continue this research with colleagues Olaf Jöris and Elaine Turner.

Members of the EQuaTe team traveled to Norfolk with the aim of collecting samples for thermoluminescence dating from crucial horizons within the British Quaternary record. We were fortunate to be joined by local experts of the area's geology and fossil record, Martin Warren and Jon Stewart, along with project collaborators Richard Preece and Simon Parfitt. 

In collaboration with the Pathways to Ancient Britain (PAB) project, the EQuaTe team visited the site of Deveraux's Pit to collect borehole samples both for palaeoecological analyses and to assist in developing a chronological model for the site through paired amino acid and thermoluminescence analyses of Bithynia tentaculata opercula. The site will continue to be a focus of research over the coming years as the archaeological excavations progress.

During the summer of 2021 the team travelled down to a disused clay pit near the village of Barnham, Suffolk, where annual excavations of the site were taking place. Excavations at Barnham Pit have produced flint tools and plant and animal remains dating back 400,000 years, which are helping us to better understand past human populations as well as enabling reconstruction of the habitats and climate at the time. The team took measurements, collected samples and Marc was able to spend 3 weeks helping to excavate the site.