| Session Details | |
| Section | BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Late Quaternary Environments of Temperate Australasia and Relationships with the Tropical Indo-pacific Region |
| Main Convener | Dr. Patrick Moss (University of Queensland, Australia) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Lynda Petherick (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Dr. Craig Sloss (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Session Description | Temperate Australasia (incorporating southern Australia and New Zealand) lies between the Indo-Pacific tropical heat engine and the cold waters of the Southern Ocean. With contemporary environmental changes within the region there are clear links to the tropical Indo-Pacific region through atmospheric teleconnections, particularly the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). This session will focus on environmental change within the temperate region of Australasia over the past 50,000 years and how the tropical heat engine of the Indo-Pacific region may have influenced these alterations. We invite papers that provide late Quaternary multi-proxy datasets (terrestrial and/or marine) and/or records with improved age control from the temperate regions of Australasia; quantitative estimates (including modelling) of late Quaternary environmental variables from the temperate region; and papers that are providing an understanding of climatic relationships between the temperate areas of Australasia and the tropical Indo-Pacific region, including the ENSO and the IOD phenomena. |