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AMQUA is pleased to announce its new Mission and Purposes statements

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2023 US INQUA Congress Travel Fellowship Program

This program is intended for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty at U.S. institutions who are attending the 21st INQUA Congress to be held on July 14-20, 2022, in Rome, Italy  https://inquaroma2023.org/.

Read the application's requirements here. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2023.

 


 

AMQUA Awards: congratulations to all the awardees!

 

Distinguished career: Julie Brigham-Grette and Estella Leopold

Leadership in Quaternary Sciences: Valerie Trouet

Next generation: Rocio Caballero-Gill and Scott Cocker

Eric Grimm for Excellence in Open Sience and Data Stewarship: Nick McKay

Denise Gaudreau for excellence in Quaternary Research: Cameron Batchelor

 

 


Quaternary Times Spring 2021 is out! 

The new volume of the American Quaternary Association Newsletter can be found here

 


The American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) is a professional organization of North American scientists devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, about the last 2.6 million years of Earth history. Studying the Quaternary is critically important because it has been a time of frequent and dramatic environmental changes, exemplified by growing and decaying continental ice sheets and mountain glaciers. Beyond understanding the forces that shaped our modern environment, studying the Quaternary Period is significant because the environmental changes accompanying past ice ages were the backdrop for global changes in floral and faunal communities, including extinction of a diverse megafauna, and for the evolution of modern humans and their dispersal throughout the world.

AMQUA was founded in 1970 primarily to foster cooperation and communication among the remarkably broad array of disciplines involved in studying the Quaternary Period. Major activities include a biennial meeting, professional awards, partnership with INQUA (the International Quaternary Association), and the Quaternary Times newsletter.