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The Quaternary Times
Newsletter of the American Quaternary Association
Volume 29 Number 1 May 1999
Announcements
CALIB 4.1
The University of Washington's Quaternary Isotope Lab announces the release of CALIB 4.1,
the updated radiocarbon calibration program. The program and the 1998 international 14C
calibration datasets can be downloaded from: http://depts.washington.edu/qil/ The CALIB
manual can be accessed with a web browser.
Understanding Future Dryland Changes from Past Dynamics
Quaternary scientists are invited to participate in the Canadian activities of
International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) project No. 413, Understanding Future
Dryland Changes from Past Dynamics. IGCP 413 was initiated in 1997 to "contrast and
compare the timing, amplitude and style of Late Quaternary desert aeolian and hydrological
processes" and address "implications for futures changes and their societal
impacts". The international co-leaders are David Thomas (University of Sheffield) and
Ashok Singhvi (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India). Information at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/ academic/I M/idry/Igcp413/Index. html
The Canadian contribution to IGCP 413 focuses on the dynamics and sensitivity of subhumid
and semiarid landscapes, as opposed to deserts. Two meetings in 1999 will bracket the
INQUA Congress. IGCP 413 will sponsor a special session at the annual meeting of the
Canadian Association of Geographers (June 1-5) and will participate in the biennial
meeting of the Canadian Quaternary Association (August 23-27).
The theme of the CAG session will be human impacts and adaptations in subhumid
environments and, in particular, historical landscape change in the southern prairies. The
dryland papers at the CANQUA meeting will be part of a broader session on Geomorphic
Response to Climate and Extreme Climate Events, sponsored by the Canadian Geomorphological
Research Group and the Geological Survey of Canada and organized by Stephen Wolfe and
Christian Begin of the GSC.
Contact: Dave Sauchyn, Department of Geography, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
S4S 0A2; 306-585-4030; fax: 4815; sauchyn@ uregina.ca or Steve Wolfe,
swolfe@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca, or Don Lemmen, dlemmen@gsc.nrcan.gc.ca
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