QRC members lead and participate in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects from the study of past earth climates and glaciations to shifts in the geographic distributions and evolution of vegetation and faunal communities, to the evolution and dispersals of the genus Homo and the increasing scales of human modification of earth environments through the Holocene. QRC provides a venue for meeting and collaborating with scholars across Quaternary disciplines. We are also fortunate to be able to provide seed funding and small grants for member research projects. We are especially happy to support grad student and junior scholar research activities, much of which leads to larger, external funding from agencies like the National Science Foundation.
Abstract: Estuarine evidence for great Cascadia earthquakes: three field trips
Wednesday, June 6 — Coseismic subsidence and an associated tsunami in 1700. Groundwater eruption ca. 1000, probably unrelated to liquefaction. Copalis River ghost forest (north of Grays Harbor)
Tuesday, August 14 — Liquefaction in 1700. Mount St. Helens ash from 1479 and probable Bridge of the Gods outburst several decades before. Lower Columbia River (Hunting Island, near Cathlamet)
Wednesday, August 15 — Seven times of coseismic subsidence in the past 3,500 years. Willapa Bay (Niawiakum River)