Next in my highlights from the #Quaternary Australasia archive is the first QA to have a full-photo cover, vol 15 no 2 (1997) 📸

It features an ant mound on Lake Eyre photographed by Kate Harle, linked to the AQUA meeting held there that year. The first student travel awards offered by AQUA were also advertised in this issue

Next, we're back to the 80s with the vol 6 no 2 (1988) Editorial by Robert Galloway, reflecting on the role of Quaternary studies in understanding global warming

Many important points here remain relevant, including communicating uncertainty as part of the scientific process

Continuing our Quaternary Australasia archive tour, we're onto 2004 with vol 22 no 1!

I love that QA can be used as a platform for accessing the shared knowledge of the Australasian Quaternary community, including this PhD candidate seeking an ID for this mystery spore. (Did they get an answer? I hope so!)

Next up from the Quaternary Australasia archive, we're in 1990 (vol 8 no 1) enjoying a limerick composed on an INQUA Congress excursion in 1973, demonstrating that we're long overdue for more Quaternary poetry

Here's the 'Ode to Swampy Hill' and its backstory

This week in the Quaternary Australasia archive highlights, we're in 2005 (vol 23 no 1)

Here's Peter Kershaw celebrating his 60th birthday, in costume, with a seminar series and live music🎶