Roadmap for amazonists to INQUA 2011

Next week (21-27 July 2011) The XVIII INQUA-Congress will take place in Bern, Switzerland.
As expected, very few contributions will deal with the Amazon Basin during the Holocene. I went through the program and I spotted the following presentations and posters that could be of interest to those who follow this blog. If I have missed something let me know and I will update the list. By the way, the first oral presentation on this list is mine :-) If you come to INQUA it would be great to meet up and have a good Swiss beer together!! Hope to see you there!!

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

• Human occupation and environmental change in south-western Amazonia during the Holocene.

• Palaeobotanical evidences of pre-Columbian agriculture in black soils (Terra Preta do indio) in western Amazonia

• Ecological response on environmental change in tropical South America during the late Quaternary

POSTERS:

• Human occupation and paleoenvironment during the Holocene of southern Brazil: Sangão and Garivaldino sites

• Source-bordering dunes in the eastern Bolivian lowlands – geomorphic variety and paleoenvironmental significance

• Tropical Wetland Formation in Belize: Ancient Maya and Natural Interactions in the Late Holocene

• Vegetation, climate, and fire history of the Páramo of Jimbura, southern Ecuador

• Pre-Columbian human land-use and impact in the Bolivian Amazon

• Early to Late Holocene climate, vegetation and fire history in the upland savannas of Guayana, SE Venezuela: fire regimes and community structure in a savanna-dominated area

• Landscape transformation and crop cultivation in two contrasting environments in Colombia: evidences of ancient agricultural raised fields

• Palaeohydrological variability of the Bolivian Amazon throughout the Holocene

• Paleoecological study of a Gran Sabana lake (SE Venezuela) during the last millennia: implications for Mauritia colonization and human settlement

• Late Holocene environmental changes based on diatom and pollen records from lake sediments of Laguna Encantada, in the Neotropical Gran Sabana (Venezuelan Guayana)

• Rapid paleohydrogical Holocene changes in the Amazon river and its implications on the carbon accumulation in floodplain lakes

• Paleoenvironmental trends in Venezuela during the last glacial cycle