*Invitation to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentation* CANQUA/AMQUA 2018 Conference
*Session S4: Syntheses of human-environment interactions during the Holocene* August 7 – 11 Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts for the oral and poster presentations that will be held during *session S4* at the joint meeting of the Canadian and American Quaternary Associations from August 7th -11th, 2018. The theme of *session S4* is “Syntheses of human-environment interactions during the Holocene”. Registration and abstract submission can be completed via the conference website (www.quaternary2018.com) and will close Monday, May 7th, 2018. *Session S4* will focus on how human activity and land use have manipulated and influenced the environment over the course of the Holocene and how environmental changes have affected human populations. The availability of regional, continental, and global databases of past environments (e.g., Neotoma, Global Charcoal Database) and paleodemography (CARD2.0; Comprhensive Archaeological Radiocarbon Database), as well as new paleoclimate reconstructions from around the world, are enabling quantitative studies of the association between environmental change and human populations and cultures. We welcome discussions of results, methods and databases that bring new insight and advance our knowledge of human-environment interactions at regional to global scales. Questions related to the causative factors of cultural change, human impacts on ecosystems and landscapes, Pleistocene extinctions on the different continents, interdisciplinary Holocene mapping projects, and the use of big data in paleoecology would be relevant. Instructions for preparing abstracts (accepted in .doc or .docx format): *Line 1*: TITLE (12 point, Times New Roman Font, ALL CAPS) *space* *Line 2*: Authors (Last Name, First Name and middle initials if any, use a * to denote presenting author) *space* *Line 3*: Please state which session you are submitting to *Line 4*: Preference for an Oral or a Poster or Either type of presentation *Space* *Lines 5 and onwards*: Body of abstract (maximum 300 words; 12 point Times New Roman Font; single line spacing) Note: Oral presentations will be 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions. Poster sessions will last 2 hours. Note: the session organizers do not provide travel support or accommodation – presenters must make their own arrangements (details can be found at www.quaternary2018.com). Contact information: Questions regarding *session S4* can be directed to the session organizers Michelle Chaput (mcha...@uottawa.ca) and Konrad Gajewski (gajew...@uottawa.ca).
