You are invited to participate in an online mini symposium on Quaternary (including Holocene!) climate and environmental change in the Southern Hemisphere. This is an initiative by the WiSH (Warm Intervals in the Southern Hemisphere) group, an INQUA funded project. Whether your field is in archaeology, palaeontology, mathematics, palaeoclimate… or you are into developing new methods and techniques in modelling, multi-proxy dating etc., we would like to hear from you! 
The aim is to share recent research results and ideas related to Southern Hemisphere climatic and environmental change and variability, in particular during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, and in a range of environmental contexts. We especially encourage postgraduate students to attend and present! We have coordinated meetings for each Southern Hemisphere region, as follows, depending on where you work (not where you are based):
- South American research community: 4 February 2025 (~9am-3pm Santiago, Chile, UTC-3), online, free of charge!
- Southern African research community: 5 February 2025 (~9am-3pm, Johannesburg, South Africa, UTC+2), online, free of charge!
- New Zealand and Australian research community: 6-8 February 2025, University of Canterbury Cass field station, in person, small charge applies.
In all instances, more information will follow.
To participate by presenting, please submit your abstract by 6 December 2024 using the template (click here to download) to the relevant regional contact below. Submissions can be made to:
- jpcarraha@uc.cl for South America (submissions accepted in either English or Spanish)
- rudolphem@ufs.ac.za for Southern Africa
- Lydia.mackenzie@utas.edu.au for New Zealand Aotearoa and Australia
If you would like to attend but not participate by presenting, this is absolutely fine, we will be sending meeting links for the S Am/SA online elements, but please indicate your intentions by just dropping an email to the relevant person. Feel free to contact us for any queries.
WiSH Steering Committee contact details:
South America:
- Javiera Carraha (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) jpcarraha@uc.cl
Southern Africa:
- Elizabeth Rudolph (University of the Free State, South Africa) RudolphEM@ufs.ac.za
- Jasper Knight (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) jasper.knight@wits.ac.za
Australasia:
- Lydia Mackenzie (University of Tasmania, Australia) lydia.mackenzie@utas.edu.au
- Jamie Shulmeister (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) james.shulmeister@canterbury.ac.nz
- Kathryn Fitzsimmons (University of Monash, Australia) kathryn.fitzsimmons@monash.edu
