From April 14 to 19, our Postdoctoral Researcher and PhD Researcher presented the NORSEAT poster at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024 in Vienna.
Juliane Scheder presented her poster on a combined modern training set of foraminifers and ostracods from three different voes on Shetland’s largest island, Mainland. This training set serves as the foundation for a relative sea-level (RSL) transfer function, which connects the elevation of surface samples to modern microfaunal associations, providing a valuable tool for high-resolution RSL reconstructions from the Holocene record around the Shetland Islands.
Rikza Nahar presented his poster titled “Constructing an Offshore Tsunami Event Stratigraphy for the Shetland Islands.” He discussed the construction of a past tsunami deposit stratigraphy as evidenced by seismic data and sediment core samples from three embayment areas around the Shetland Islands. The presentation included plans for detailed analysis involving laboratory work and data analysis to further investigate these tsunami deposits.
According to the EGU24 website, the General Assembly had 20,979 registered attendees, with 18,388 coming to Vienna from 116 countries and 2,591 joining online from 109 countries. The event was a major success, featuring 18,896 presentations across 1,044 sessions. Notably, 57% of the abstracts were from Early Career Scientists (ECS).
