SGEES PhD student won award at the International Union for Quaternary Research Congress
Matt Ryan won the best postgraduate student poster award at the XIX INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress
Matt Ryan won the best postgraduate student poster award at the XIX INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress, which is held every 4 years, this time in Nagoya, Japan, 26th July- 2nd August. This was awarded to 12 students out of 398 students. The poster was titled "Ocean-atmosphere interactions from south-west New Zealand, over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles". The posters were said to contain excellent science, were well designed; attributes that set them outstanding from other poster papers presented at the conference.
Matt also presented a talk at the Congress titled "A high-resolution Southern Hemispheric terrestrial vegetation and SST reconstruction of the ”super-warm” Interglacial of MIS 11 (424-374,000 years ago) retrieved from the eastern Tasman Sea".