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QUATERNARY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: ANNUAL DISCUSSION MEETING SOUTHAMPTON, UK: 6 - 7 JANUARY 2000 ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ MILLENNIAL SCALE CHANGES ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Appropriately for the year 2000 the Annual Discussion Meeting has the theme of highlighting recent advances in all aspects of Quaternary Science which show changes at or around the millennial scale. The complete programme of 20 invited and offered papers is shown below and now contributions are invited for posters. The venue for the meeting is the recently refurbished Geography Department of Southampton University and the posters will be on high-profile display throughout the meeting, in areas adjacent to the lecture theatre. REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 1, 1999: see form below. For the latest information consult the QRA website at http://www.qra.org.uk/ Contributions have been confirmed from the following speakers in three general themes: Millennial Scale Changes recorded from the Ocean Record Keynote Speaker: Millennial scale climatic variability - Nick Shackleton (Cambridge) The oceanic role in millennial change - Grant Bigg (UEA) Millenial scale changes from the deep sea record - Dick Kroon (Edinburgh) Millennial scale climate variations - Mark Maslin (UCL) Sub-millennial climate variability along the North Atlantic Margins - Bill Austin (St Andrews) Millennial scale changes from a deep-sea record of Termination II - Barbara Maher (UEA) Interlatitudinal phasing of abrupt climate changes - James Scourse (Bangor) Millennial Scale Changes recorded from the Biosphere Keynote Speaker: Radiocarbon and 10Be as proxies for solar forcing of climate change? - Bas van Geel (Amsterdam) Climate variability and lake sediment records - Rick Battarbee (UCL) Climate / CO2 / vegetation interactions in the Tropics - Alayne Street-Perrott (Swansea) Millennial and centennial changes in the peatland record - Keith Barber (Southampton) Millennial scale changes in European palaeoecology - Kathy Willis (Oxford) Mid-Late Holocene climatic fluctuations - Frank Chambers (CGCHE) Millennial Scale Changes recorded from the Cryo/Lithospheric Record Keynote Speaker: Millennial scale changes in the ice core record - Sigfus Johnsen (Copenhagen) Millennial scale fluvial response to rapid environmental change - Darrel Maddy (Newcastle) Glacier-ocean interactions at millennial timescales - Julian Dowdeswell (Bristol) Millennial to decadal Holocene fluvial system response - Mark Macklin (Aberystwyth) Millennial scale changes recorded in speleothems - Andy Baker (Newcastle) High resolution loess-palaeosol sequences - Rob Kemp (RHUL) Millennial scale changes in sea-level - Ian Shennan (Durham) Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 1999. See the registration form below for registration fees and accommodation details. For further information please contact: Jane Hart ([log in to unmask]); tel. 01703-594615 Keith Barber ([log in to unmask]) 01703-593215 Antony Payne ([log in to unmask]) 01703-593823 Paul Hughes ([log in to unmask]) 01703-592489 Department of Geography, University of Southampton, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ, UK. **************************************************************************** **************** QRA 2000 REGISTRATION FORM I wish to register for the meeting (this includes book of abstracts, refreshments and lunches) £40 (£30 for students and unwaged) £_______ Accommodation Bed and Breakfast accommodation will be available in Glen Eyre Hall at £23.50 per night with shared facilities; ensuite rooms at £38.20 per night. I require accommodation for the night of: Wednesday 5th Jan. £_______ Thursday 6th Jan. £_______ Friday 7th Jan. £_______ Dinner There will be a hot buffet (with wine) available for delegates arriving on the evening of the 5th January (£10). The three-course conference dinner (£16) will be on the evening of 6th January ( non-residents are warmly invited to attend). Buffet (5th Jan.) £_______ Conference Dinner (6th Jan.) £_______ Please tick special dietary requirements: Vegetarian______ Vegan________ Total Cost: £_______ OVERSEAS DELEGATES PLEASE NOTE: costs must be paid in Sterling and include all banking fees. Presentations: (please delete as appropriate) I do/do not wish to present a poster at the conference For the above, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to the address below. Places are limited so abstracts must be received by 1st December 1999. Personal details (in capitals): Name_____________________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Telephone___________________________ Fax __________________________ Email_____________________________________________________________ Signature __________________________________________________________ You may send in this registration form in advance of payment but all payments must be received by 1st. December 1999. Please make all cheques payable to "University of Southampton" Please return this form to: Dr Jane K. Hart, Department of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; phone (01703) 594615, fax (01703) 593295 ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************** PLEASE CC. ALL MESSAGES TO HOME E-mail: [log in to unmask] Dr Keith E. Barber Palaeoecology Laboratory Department of Geography University of Southampton SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ Telephone (direct) 023-80-593215 Telephone (Lab) 023-80-592226 Telephone (home) 023-80-282931 Fax 023-80-593295 Mobile 07977-912081 E-mails: [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] http://www.soton.ac.uk/~palaeo/ http://www.soton.ac.uk/~geog/staff/keb_p.html **************************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%