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32 Michaelmas 2005 The newsletter of the CAMBRIDGE QUATERNARY ISSUE 32 MICHAELMAS 2005 Goodbye Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research, Hello Cambridge Quaternary! Cambridge Quaternary (CQ) officially replaced (Earth Sciences), Dr Richard Preece (Zoology), Dr the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research Maryline Vautravers (British Antarctic Survey and (GIQR) on October 1st 2005. This new grouping Geography), Professor Roy Switsur (Godwin Lab), represents a more informal structure than the Professor Martin Jones (Archaeology) and Dr Eric GIQR but at the same time incorporates a wider Wolff (British Antarctic Survey). range of research groups both within the University and beyond. We hope that you will want to participate fully in The CQ provides a co-operative umbrella the day to day running of the organisation and organisation including over 40 people. Its continue to make Cambridge the centre for constituent research groups being based in the excellence in Quaternary science that it has been Departments of Geography, Earth Sciences, for the last 8 decades or thereabouts. Archaeology and Zoology, whilst links also exist with the Departments of Physics and All the normal functions of the GIQR will continue Bioanthropology, the Scott Polar Research Institute under the new CQ structure, including the and the British Antarctic Survey. The research Quaternary Discussion Group seminars, the environment at all levels is fostered by the staff, CAMQUA newsletter etc, and hopefully some new post-doctoral workers, and both Ph.D. and M.Phil. events will emerge. The website is also being students pursuing interdisciplinary research in a updated and will include announcements of wide range of Quaternary fields. This environment relevance to CQ members, including the QDG is unique in Britain, offering opportunities for information. It is open for any groups to add research training unequalled elsewhere, in terms of information, links etc., so please use it. You will the range and quality of the expertise available in a also be able to download versions of the logotype single institutional setting. which we hope you’ll use on posters and other presentations to help spread the word and to help The CQ is managed by an Advisory Committee that us present a united face to the public. meets annually. It includes Professor Phil Gibbard (Geography - chair), Dr Tom Spencer (Geography), Phil Gibbard Professor Nick McCave (Earth Sciences), Dr David Pyle Cambridge Quaternary website: http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/ Dates for your Diary Michaelmas 2005 October Tue 25th Jake Lowenstern (Yellowstone Volcano Observatory) “Intrusion, deformation and gas ESC discharge at the Yellowstone Caldera” Wed 26th Professor Atsumu Ohmura (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) "Mass balance SPRI change of glaciers and ice sheets during the 20th century" November Tues 15th Don Canfield (Odense, Denmark) “Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry” ESC Wed 16th Dr Doug Mair (University of Aberdeen) "The challenge of determining change in the SPRI percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet" Tue 22nd Rainer Zahn (Barcelona) “Oceanic records of climate change” ESC Wed 30th Dr Dag Ottesen (Geological Survey of Norway) "Ice sheet dynamics and palaeo-ice SPRI streams on the Norwegian shelf based on bathymetric and 2D and 3D seismic data" QDG talks are yet to be finalised – watch the website for news ARCH talks also yet to be finalised – watch their website too! ESC seminars: 5 pm in the Harker Room. Wine in the common room from 4.45. All welcome. Full details: www.esc.cam.ac.uk/~dmp11/seminars SPRI seminars to be held in the Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture theatre. Full program: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars/physical/ Enquiries contact: Jeff Evans, (3)36570, ([email protected]) ARCH talks of the George Pitt-Rivers bioarchaeology laboratory are held in the McDonald Institute lecture room (ground floor). Full program: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/pittrivers/GPRtalks.html Enquiries contact: Rachel Ballantyne, (3)33537, ([email protected]) QDG talks to be held at 5:30 pm in the Lloyd Room at Christ’s College Cambridge. Full program: http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/events/qdg/ Enquiries contact: Luke Skinner ([email protected]) A New Home After more than 17 years on the New Museums Cavendish Laboratory, would have to be Site, the Godwin Laboratory is being packed up vacatedwithin the next few years in any case, because for relocation and incorporation into the the University's use of the area is changing. On the Department of Earth Sciences. Mass downside, space is going to be much more restricted Spectrometers, computers, microscopes and on the "other side". Some hard decisions are going to books are being carefully stowed in 2,000 boxes have to be taken about equipment and books for for transportation across the road to the second which there will not be room in the new facilities. floor of the Department of Earth Sciences. The Godwin Lab's familiar corridor, with its Sequoia Space has been made available for sample storage - tree-trunk section and array of rooms down but with material having to be moved out of the either side, will soon fall silent and dark - the Department as well as well as from the Godwin, it is retirement of Nick Shackleton has signalled a unclear whether enough space will in fact be sea-change for the laboratory. The available. Relocating Mass Spectrometers - which are administrative reorganisation that transferred notoriously sensitive to any kind of disruption - is a the Laboratory from the Department of Plant difficult business in any case, and it will take some Sciences to the Department of Earth Sciences weeks before the units are operational in their new has ultimately led to the physical incorporation homes. The bulk of the move out of the laboratory is of the laboratory into the Department of Earth expected to occur in early December, after a Sciences on the Downing Site. reschedule from mid-November. In part, this is a cost-cutting move on the part of This is not the first time that the Godwin Laboratory the Department of Earth Sciences. The transfer has changed location. The original University of the Laboratory facilities will free up some fifty Radiocarbon Laboratory was sited on Station Road. thousand pounds per year for Departmental use. What everyone hopes is that the magic of the Godwin However, there are potential gains in terms of Laboratory - its productivity and capacity for scientific the closer integration of the Godwin Lab's work achievement - will survive the move. And what will with that of others in the main Department, in the laboratory be called in its new location? That, it particular with the Geochemistry group. It was appears, remains to be decided. expected that the buildings currently occupied by the Godwin Laboratory, which are part of the old Simon Crowhurst NEWS: emeritus CAMQUA editor moves to France Having successfully defended his thesis last month, Will Fletcher will be taking up a one-year post-doc funded by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) at the Département de Géologie et Océanographie, Université Bordeaux 1, France. He will be working with Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi on marine pollen from cores MD95-2042 and MD95-2043 from the Atlantic Iberian margin and the Alboran Sea, focusing on isotope stages 2 and 3. The work will contribute to the RESOLuTION project, a four-year European Science Foundation (ESF) project commencing this year which aims to relate the terrestrial, marine, ice-core and archaeological data for stages 2 and 3. Depending on demand, there may be a minibus going from Cambridge. Contact Phil Gibbard, (plg1) to express an interest. INQUA-SEQS 2005 meeting in Bern, Switzerland th th 4 – 9 September 2005 The annual meeting of ICS’s Sub commission on interglacial(s) found in the Alpine midlands still are European Quaternary Stratigraphy (SEQS) took correlated to MIS 11 and older, because they place in Bern. Part of Bern had suffered some contain Pterocaria pollen. The field-meeting also major flooding two weeks before, but at our arrival discussed evidence for extensive glaciation in Plio- no noticeable damage remained – so we didn’t Pleistocene times. In the alpine record the early have to feel disaster-tourists and could start the Pleistocene is a big gap and so is the Pliocene. In meeting reasonably undistracted. We participated the alpine foreland there is some evidence for in two days of presentations and discussions, and 3 glaciation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition, in days of excursions to the NE (Alpine foreland), the form of gravels found at high levels centre (Alpine midlands) and SE (Inner Alps) of (‘deckenschotter’ forming table mountains, visited Switzerland – under very pleasant weather during excursion). Also from heavy minerals in conditions. Thirty oral presentations covered Rhine deposits of the Upper Rhine Graben down to themes such as: New results of dating sediments the North Sea basin, the establishment of a from the Alpine region; High-resolution archives of drainage connection with the Alpine area at that Quaternary climate change; Glacial dynamics and time is clear. One can wonder if in Early Pleistocene sedimentology, Palaeozoology and environmental times following this time the Alps were glaciated to change; and Glacial stratigraphy from the T/Q as large extends as during the ‘first’ plio-pleistocene boundary to the Holocene. glaciations and later Middle-Late Pleistocene glaciations. Sediments in Quaternary depocentres The majority of the talks were on Swiss, Italian and in the Upper Rhine Graben may hold a semi- Bavarian Alpine Quaternary sites and their continuous record for this period and therefore a stratigraphic context, many of which were also major collaborative project involving three >500-m visited in the excursions. A consistent picture of last deep boreholes near Heidelberg that is in progress glacial dynamics of the alpine ice cap emerged from now.
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