Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary, I am pleased to announce the five winners of the Quaternary 2018–2019 Best Paper Award.

The award has been granted to:

Article: Erosive Response of Non-Glaciated Pyrenean Headwater Catchments to the Last Major Climate Transition and Establishing Interglacial Conditions
By Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thompson, Cornelia Spiegel and Hans-Joachim Kuss
Quaternary 2019, 2(2), 17; doi:10.3390/quat2020017

Article: Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record
By Martin Finné, Sakari Salonen, Norbert Frank, Karin F. Helmens, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Michael Deininger and Steffen Holzkämper
Quaternary 2019, 2(3), 29; doi:10.3390/quat2030029

Article: Climatically Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia
By James S. Daley and Tim J. Cohen
Quaternary 2018, 1(3), 23; doi:10.3390/quat1030023

Article: Dropstones in Lacustrine Sediments as a Record of Snow Avalanches—A Validation of the Proxy by Combining Satellite Imagery and Varve Chronology at Kenai Lake (South-Central Alaska)
By Sien Thys, Maarten Van Daele, Nore Praet, Britta J.L. Jensen, Thomas Van Dyck, Peter J. Haeussler, Elke Vandekerkhove, Veerle Cnudde and Marc De Batist
Quaternary 2019, 2(1), 11; doi:10.3390/quat2010011

Article: From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Vegetation and Peatland Development in the French Jura Mountains
By Emilie Gauthier, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Richard Payne, Frédéric Delarue, Fatima Laggoun-Defarge, Daniel Gilbert and Hervé Richard
Quaternary 2019, 2(4), 38; doi:10.3390/quat2040038

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Quaternary in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Quaternary and the Award Committee for voting and providing assistance with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Jef Vandenberghe, Quaternary

 

Quaternary Best Paper Award

 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Quaternary will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2024 2022 2020 2018

Winner

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18 pages, 4782 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack

by Sarah Britzius, Frank Dreher, Patricia Maisel and Frank Sirocko

Quaternary 2024, 7(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7010008 - 6 Feb 2024

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman

Vrije Universiteit

Prof. Anna Maria Mercuri

Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dièartimento di Scienze dellla Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Dr. Juan Manuel López-García

Dr. Xianyan Wang

School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University

Winner

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31 pages, 5046 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

Neanderthal Fossils, Mobile Toolkit and a Hyena Den: The Archaeological Assemblage of Lateral Gallery 1 in Cova Del Gegant (NE Iberian Peninsula)

by Joan Daura, Montserrat Sanz, Manuel Vaquero, Juan Manuel López-García, Hugues-Alexandre Blain and Antonio Sánchez Marco

Quaternary 2022, 5(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010012 - 18 Feb 2022

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31 pages, 5942 KiB  

Open AccessReview

Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments

by Bruno Wilhelm, Benjamin Amann, Juan Pablo Corella, William Rapuc, Charline Giguet-Covex, Bruno Merz and Eivind Støren

Quaternary 2022, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010009 - 1 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman

Vrije Universiteit

Prof. Anna Maria Mercuri

Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dièartimento di Scienze dellla Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Dr. Xianyan Wang

School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University

Prof. Maria Rita Palombo

CNR-IGAG

Winner

18 pages, 4867 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

Dating of the Lower Pleistocene Vertebrate Site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): Biochronology, Magnetostratigraphy, and Cosmogenic Radionuclides

by George E. Konidaris, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Matteo Maron, Mirjam Schaller, Todd A. Ehlers, Elina Aidona, Mattia Marini, Vangelis Tourloukis, Giovanni Muttoni, George D. Koufos and Katerina Harvati

Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010001 - 8 Jan 2021

30 pages, 15913 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Upper Reaches of Fluvial Systems in the Southern East European Plain

by Andrey Panin, Olga Borisova, Evgeny Konstantinov, Yury Belyaev, Ekaterina Eremenko, Andrey Zakharov and Aleksey Sidorchuk

Quaternary 2020, 3(4), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3040031 - 13 Nov 2020

21 pages, 3752 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

Comparison of Climate Model Simulations of the Younger Dryas Cold Event

by Hans Renssen

Quaternary 2020, 3(4), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3040029 - 3 Oct 2020

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58 pages, 6049 KiB  

Open AccessReview

Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations

by Eric Capo, Charline Giguet-Covex, Alexandra Rouillard, Kevin Nota, Peter D. Heintzman, Aurèle Vuillemin, Daniel Ariztegui, Fabien Arnaud, Simon Belle, Stefan Bertilsson, Christian Bigler, Richard Bindler, Antony G. Brown, Charlotte L. Clarke, Sarah E. Crump, Didier Debroas, Göran Englund, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Rebecca E. Garner, Joanna Gauthier, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Liv Heinecke, Ulrike Herzschuh, Anan Ibrahim, Veljo Kisand, Kurt H. Kjær, Youri Lammers, Joanne Littlefair, Erwan Messager, Marie-Eve Monchamp, Fredrik Olajos, William Orsi, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Dilli P. Rijal, Johan Rydberg, Trisha Spanbauer, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Pierre Taberlet, Liisi Talas, Camille Thomas, David A. Walsh, Yucheng Wang, Eske Willerslev, Anne van Woerkom, Heike H. Zimmermann, Marco J. L. Coolen, Laura S. Epp, Isabelle Domaizon, Inger G. Alsos and Laura Parducciadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list

Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010006 - 13 Feb 2021

35 pages, 1045 KiB  

Open AccessReview

Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

by Charles R. Clement, Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Alexandra Parra-Rondinel, Carolina Levis, Nivaldo Peroni, Natalia Hanazaki, Laura Cortés-Zárraga, Selene Rangel-Landa, Rubana Palhares Alves, Maria Julia Ferreira, Mariana Franco Cassino, Sara Deambrozi Coelho, Aldo Cruz-Soriano, Marggiori Pancorbo-Olivera, José Blancas, Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Gustavo Lemes, Elisa Lotero-Velásquez, Vinicius Mutti Bertin and Guilherme Gerhardt Mazzochini

Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010004 - 28 Jan 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Jef Vandenberghe Chairman

Vrije Universiteit

Winner

13 pages, 1762 KiB  

Open AccessArticle

From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Vegetation and Peatland Development in the French Jura Mountains

by Emilie Gauthier, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Edward A.D. Mitchell, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Richard Payne, Frédéric Delarue, Fatima Laggoun-Defarge, Daniel Gilbert and Hervé Richard

Quaternary 2019, 2(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2040038 - 2 Dec 2019

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19 pages, 7194 KiB  

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Dropstones in Lacustrine Sediments as a Record of Snow Avalanches—A Validation of the Proxy by Combining Satellite Imagery and Varve Chronology at Kenai Lake (South-Central Alaska)

by Sien Thys, Maarten Van Daele, Nore Praet, Britta J.L. Jensen, Thomas Van Dyck, Peter J. Haeussler, Elke Vandekerkhove, Veerle Cnudde and Marc De Batist

Quaternary 2019, 2(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2010011 - 1 Mar 2019

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17 pages, 2094 KiB  

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Last Interglacial Climate in Northern Sweden—Insights from a Speleothem Record

by Martin Finné, Sakari Salonen, Norbert Frank, Karin F. Helmens, Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau, Michael Deininger and Steffen Holzkämper

Quaternary 2019, 2(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2030029 - 20 Aug 2019

20 pages, 5832 KiB  

Open AccessFeature PaperArticle

Erosive Response of Non-Glaciated Pyrenean Headwater Catchments to the Last Major Climate Transition and Establishing Interglacial Conditions

by Kurt Martin Stange, Ivar Midtkandal, Johan Petter Nystuen, Andrew Murray, Reza Sohbati, Warren Thompson, Cornelia Spiegel and Hans-Joachim Kuss

Quaternary 2019, 2(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2020017 - 7 May 2019

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20 pages, 3636 KiB  

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Climatically-Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia

by James S. Daley and Tim J. Cohen

Quaternary 2018, 1(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030023 - 16 Oct 2018