Schedule & Posters
AMQUA 2024 Talk Schedule - August 8th-11th 2024
| Thursday | ||
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome | |
| 9:15-10:00 | Geof Spaulding | The Last 40 Years Of Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Research In The West - What Happened, What Didn't Happen, And Where To Now? |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Kevin Anchukaitis | Chronology And Climate Context For Medieval Megadrought In The Eastern Sierra Nevada |
| 10:50-11:10 | Adam Hudson | Deluge Or Diversion?: Timing And Paleohydrologic Implications Of The Greatest MIS 6 Stands Of Pluvial Lake Manly, Death Valley, CA |
| 11:10-11:30 | Vachel Carter | Investigating Abrupt To Precession-Scale Climate Change And Ecosystem Response Over The Past 70,000 Years At Fish Lake, Utah |
| 11:30-11:50 | Daniel Ibarra | Investigating Late Pleistocene Stable Isotope Systematics Of Lakes In The Western United States |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch (AMQUA Council Meeting) | |
| 1:30-1:50 | Rolfe D. Mandel | Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution In River Valleys Of The Nebraska Sand Hills |
| 1:50-2:10 | Emma Krolczyk | Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence To Date Cairn Construction At The Wiggins Fork Bison Jump Complex |
| 2:10-2:30 | Quinn Asena | Interaction Of Millennial-Scale Climate Variations, CO2, Megafaunal Extinctions, And Fire On Ecosystem Transformations And Disappearances In Florida |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Samuel Bona | Cave Sediment Core Preserves 2200 Years Of Alpine Wildfire History In Northern Utah, U.S.A. |
| 3:20-3:40 | Anthony Layzell | Landscape And Paleoenvironmental Change In Stream Valleys Of The Central Great Plains During Marine Isotope Stage 3. |
| 3:40-4:00 | Jesse Morris | Holocene Fire-Climate-Vegetation Linkages In Utah's Upland Forests |
| Friday | ||
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome | |
| 8:45-9:30 | John Smol | Quaternary Paleoecology Meets Conservation Biology: Using Sedimentary Records To Track Long-Term Changes In Vulnerable Seabird Populations Linked To Human And Natural Stressors |
| 9:30-9:50 | Scott Cocker | Palaeoecology And Evolutionary History Of Beringia's Arctic Ground Squirrels |
| 9:50-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-10:50 | W. Geoffrey Spaulding | An Extinct Mega-Lake In The Colorado Desert |
| 10:50-11:10 | Vachel Kraklow | Using The Past To Predict The Future: Quantifying Past Fire Intensities From The Jemez Mountains, New Mexico |
| 11:10-11:55 | Peter Adler | From Paleo Data To Ecological Forecasts: A Framework To Understand And Predict Slow Responses To Climate Change |
| 11:55-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-1:30 | Colin Long | AMQUA: The History Of A Great Idea. Mission Accomplished? |
| 1:30-3:00 | AMQUA General Business Meeting | |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30-5:30 | Poster Session | |
| 6:00-9:00 | Banquet (6-9) | |
| Saturday | ||
| Time | Presenter | Title |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome | |
| 8:45-9:30 | Tripti Bhattacharya | Hydroclimate Of Southwestern North America Over The Plio-Pleistocene Transition |
| 9:30-9:50 | David Fastovich | Large-Scale Sea Surface Temperature Gradients Govern Moisture Transport In Western Ecuador During The Plio-Pleistocene |
| 9:50-10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Christopher L. Hill | Integrative Quaternary Science In The Eastern Sahara: Paleohydrology, Ecosystem Change, And Applied Geomorphology In Arid Environments |
| 10:50-11:10 | Carlos Cordova | The Dynamics Of Lake Texcoco In The Past 30,000 Years: Fluctuations, Climatic Drivers, Deltas, And Human Prehistory |
| 11:10-11:30 | Susana Velasquez-Franco | Colombian Maar-Lakes: A Long-Term Perspective Of Climate And Environmental Change In The Equatorial Andes |
| 11:30-11:50 | S. Yoshi Maezumi | 6,000 Years Of Indigenous Land Use, Fire Management, And Colonial Impacts In The Southwestern Amazon Rainforest Ecotone |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:15 | Steve Jackson | Quaternary Science And Public Service In A Post-Normal World |
| 2:15-2:30 | Closing | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00-5:00 | INQUA Early Career Panel | |
| 6:00-9:00 | INQUA Mixer | |
Posters
| AMQUA 2024 - Poster Session | |
| Friday August 9th 3:30 - 5:30pm | |
| Presenter | Title |
| Aidan Burdick | A 1200 Year High-Resolution Record Of δ18O Of Authigenic Calcite At Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA, With Implications For Longer-Term Isotopic Climate Reconstructions |
| Alexander Orkhonselenge | Tectonic Setting, Provenance, Weathering, And Paleoenvironment Of The Tsagaan Suvarga In Southern Mongolia |
| April Radford | Dendrochronology Of West Desert Utah Juniper |
| Camille A. Holmgren | Best Practices For Ancient Rodent Midden Collection, Processing, And Curation |
| Carlos Cordova | Vegetation Succession After Neoglacia Glacier Retreat In College Fjord, South-Central Alaska |
| Ciara Wanket | Long-Term Ecosystem Impacts Of Distal Ashfall From A Large Volcanic Eruption In Eastern Beringia. |
| Geof Spaulding | A fossil record of ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) and hackberry (Celtis reticulata) from the Sheep Range of Southern Nevada and it’s paleoclimatic implications |
| Lesleigh Anderson | Climate History Moving Forward: A ~70,000-Year View From Fish Lake, Utah Sediments |
| Madelyn Vorkink | Exploring Paleohydrology With XRF In The West Desert |
| Marti Sorenson | Late Holocene Vegetation Change At Range Creek Canyon, Utah |
| Michael A. Monzon | Funerary Archaeoentomology In The U.S. Northeast Coastal Region During The American Colonial Period |
| Miranda A. Clow | Fire History From The Kilat Valley, Ethiopia, During The Last Three Millennia |
| Molly Sullivan | Stable Isotope Analysis Of Late Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrates From The Great Basin |
| Sophia Foliano | Providing Paleoenvironmental Baselines To Inform Prescribed Fire Application In Central Florida |
| Sylvan Carey | Climate Change Impacts On Desert Ecosystems: Paleoecological Lessons From The Late Pleistocene In The Great Basin, Nevada |
| Valentin Tembe Mwela | Use Of Isotopes In The Assessment Of Water Resources In The Democratic Republic Of Congo |