Greetings and welcome to the beginning of a new year! In this newsletter I’d like to highlight some of the achievements of our member community and introduce new members to the QRC. Thank you to all members for sending in nominations of our adjunct and affiliate members, Joyce LeCompte, Maurice Major, Peter Jegede, Amir Sheikh and Sarah Vollero. Many of these individuals have had long relationships with the QRC and we are happy to have you join our center. I’d also like to encourage our members to reach out to Erin and me with any individuals you would like to nominate this winter and spring and encourage you to connect your students with the QRC!

Thanks also goes to our QRC Pop-Up speakers for our fall meeting, Ben Fitzhugh who reported out on the joint ESSAS-OPI Marine Science and History Conference the QRC helped sponsor this past summer and to Tristan Bench for sharing his novel exposure dating applications using luminescence on rock artifacts, quarries and erratics. We were also fortunate to co-sponsor a lecture and reception for Dr. Jen Rose Smith this past autumn with the Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies and Geography Department. As a reminder, if you have any event sponsorship requests, please forward them to me!

Looking to the future, we’re in the planning stages for holding a member social in spring 2023 that highlights current research of QRC members. If you’d like to volunteer to present a lightning talk or serve in some other capacity please fill out our volunteer form here. Stay tuned for more information and I’ll see you at our Winter 2023 meeting!

The QRC is in the process of updating our website and we’d love to include your photos! If you’re willing to share photos of you in the field, lab, or during QRC activities, we’d love to feature them. Please contact Erin (erinw271@uw.edu) for more details.

– Sara Gonzalez, Feb 2023

Read the full newsletter here: QRC Quarterly Newsletter – WINTER 2023