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Julia Haberkern
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Julia Haberkern about her participation in the XIX INQUA Congress in Nagoya, Japan from 26 July - 2 August 2015
The XIX INQUA Congress took place in Nagoya in Japan from the 26th of July until the 2nd of August. Under the overarching title “Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization” 1790 participants presented 2050 talks and posters during more than 100 different sessions. The spectrum of sessions covered archeological studies as well as terrestrial and marine geoscience.
In the first three days my interest was mostly drawn by sessions dealing with river deltas, coastal wetlands, coastal land sea interaction and shelves as they all have a marine aspect and deal with different kinds of sediment transport.
However my primary focus was set on a session especially dedicated to contourite research which took place on the second last day of the conference with the title: “Revealing paleoceanographic variability from contouritic depositional systems”. My contribution was a 12 min talk in which I presented first results on the development of contouritic depositional systems in relation to topographic heights at the Galician continental margin.
During the preceding poster session I already had stimulating discussions with the presenting authors about their ongoing work and since not too many scientists were partaking in that session we ended up having an in depth group discussion about the presented data, different contourite paradigms as well as upcoming conferences, workshops and the communication within the contourite community. All in all it was a successful first step for me to build up my scientific network.
Besides the scientific input visiting Japan was an impressive cultural experience as there also were opportunities to enjoy typical food and to spend some time sightseeing.
I would like to thank GLOMAR for funding my participation in XIX INQUA Congress. The experience not only broadened my horizon but also made me visible in the scientific community.
In the first three days my interest was mostly drawn by sessions dealing with river deltas, coastal wetlands, coastal land sea interaction and shelves as they all have a marine aspect and deal with different kinds of sediment transport.
However my primary focus was set on a session especially dedicated to contourite research which took place on the second last day of the conference with the title: “Revealing paleoceanographic variability from contouritic depositional systems”. My contribution was a 12 min talk in which I presented first results on the development of contouritic depositional systems in relation to topographic heights at the Galician continental margin.
During the preceding poster session I already had stimulating discussions with the presenting authors about their ongoing work and since not too many scientists were partaking in that session we ended up having an in depth group discussion about the presented data, different contourite paradigms as well as upcoming conferences, workshops and the communication within the contourite community. All in all it was a successful first step for me to build up my scientific network.
Besides the scientific input visiting Japan was an impressive cultural experience as there also were opportunities to enjoy typical food and to spend some time sightseeing.
I would like to thank GLOMAR for funding my participation in XIX INQUA Congress. The experience not only broadened my horizon but also made me visible in the scientific community.
Giant samurai statue at the conference center in Nagoya