This is Schuster Building manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/… for registration at 13:00 #QRA24

The first part of the #QRA24 conference is being kicked off in Manchester with a fantastic workshop on ITRAX data manipulation in Rstudio led by Tom Bishop.

I have 2 invite codes 🦋 if anyone wants to join the migration

I have 3 more invite codes 🦋 if anyone is will looking for them to join the migration

Fans of Namib #sand & #archaeology found between dunes... head to PICOspot3 #EGU24 Mon15th (9.07am for 2 min intro & then chatting at screen3.13 about what we're finding so far, until coffee 10.15, #NamibSandSea #teamSANDS #lithics #luminescence rb.gy/pd8z74

Also check out the excellent work of Shashank Manchester Geography during his MSc & beyond, with Aayush Srivastava et al. looking at #dune accumulation in the far Wn Indian part of the #Thar desert PicoScreen3.7 #dunes #luminescence #POSL #EGU24 rb.gy/des1x1

Unit Evaluation time of year. A time to reflect… that 10% response rates & some students not actually knowing who you are (apparently I didn’t teach my lectures… / was ill) mean that these surveys mean nearly nothing. Keep doing an excellent job everyone!

🚨New Paper Alert 🚨 doi.org/10.1016/j.quag… Signals from #portableluminescencereaders let us probe sediment #provenance and geomorphic processes as well as giving us an idea of burial age, for dunes and lake shorelines across southern Africa

New paper led by Marc Dickinson on directly dating tooth Pleistocene tooth enamel: doi.org/10.1016/j.quag… working for elephants, mammoths, horse and bison!

Looking forward to Windy Day conference tomorrow in Liverpool livunigeog with Liverpool Luminescence Lab

Come and check out some grains of pollen and sand down the microscope with scientists from QEG Manchester at #UniversallyManchester this Saturday. We’ll be in the AMBS (Business School) location from 10am universallymanchester.com

African archaeology has neglected Namibia’s deserts, but scientists now know when an ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea bit.ly/4cYuUCk 💻 Abi Stoney, University of Manchester The University of Manchester and Dominic Stratford, Wits University #ScienceAndTech

2022 fieldtrip members at #Narabeb as part of #SANDS research that is the basis of our piece in The Conversation Africa theconversation.com/african-archae… For more of the science see #OpenAccess paper doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.…

I was invited to talk with John Maytham for the "Afternoon Drive" on CapeTalk Radio about the S.A.N.D.S. (Survey and Archaeology of the Namib Desert Surface) team's research at Narabeb (≠Aonin-derived name for "place of the Nara") omny.fm/shows/the-john…

And I should have said, the team would love to have breakfast with you too John CapeTalk on 567AM - a cup of rooibos & a rusk on top of one of the towering dunes in the #NamibSandSea? omny.fm/shows/the-john…