Although the QT Short Course has roughly the same structure from year to year, the speakers and topics can sometimes vary due to the availability of speakers. The final program for the 2012 course will be determined in April 2012, and available from the short course organizers then.

 

Speakers and Topics from previous Quaternary Techniques Short Courses

Brent Alloway (Victoria University Wellington) – Tephrochronology and Fission Track dating

Troy Baisden (GNS Science)  –  Soil carbon dynamics and interpretation in Quaternary studies

Joel Baker (Victoria University Wellington)  –  Carbonate thermometry

Bernard Barry (GNS Science) –  137Cs and 210Pb dating

Nancy Bertler (GNS Science & VUW)  –  Analyses in Ice Core Palaeoclimatology

Helen Bostock (NIWA)  –  Use of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in paleoceanography

Martin Brook (Massey University) - ¹⁰Be and surface exposure dating

Lionel Carter (VUW)  -  Seismic and Core Reconstructions of the Quaternary Deep Ocean off New Zealand

Ursula Cochran (GNS Science) – Palaeoenvironment reconstruction using terrestrial microfossils

Giuseppe Cortese (GNS Science)  –  Palaeoenvironment reconstruction using marine microfossils

Kevin Faure (GNS Science)  –  Stable isotope fundamentals and silicate mineral applications

Henk Heijnis (ANSTO) - ²¹⁰Pb and ¹³⁷Cs high resolution case studies

Andrew Lorrey (NIWA)  –  dendrochronology

David Lowe (University of Waikato) –  Tephrochronology

Andrew Mackintosh (Victoria University Wellington)  –  Glacial geomorphology

Uwe Morgenstern (GNS Science)  –  32Si dating

Rewi Newnham (VUW) – New Zealand Quaternary

Mike Page (GNS Science)  –  paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Lake Tutira

Christine Prior (GNS Science)  –  Radiocarbon Dating

Mark Quigley (University of Canterbury) – Cosmogenic Isotopes; surface exposure dating

Uwe Rieser (Victoria University Wellington)  –  Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating

Karyne Rogers (GNS Science)  –  Detecting environmental change using stable isotopes

Claudine Stirling (University of Otago)  –  U-series disequilibrium: speleothem dating

Marcus Vandergoes (GNS Science)  –  Palaeoenvironment reconstruction using microfossils: terrestrial

Rob Van der Raiij (GNS Science)  –  Water dating and tracing with Tritium, CFC’s and SF6

Gary Wilson (University of Otago) – Quaternary Paleomagnetism & Environmental Magnetism

Quaternary Techniques Short course 2012