CONTINUING our “locals in science theme” after last week’s article about Phil Pope, this week we have former Bombala High School student, Kelsie Long on an adventure in Nagoya, Japan.
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Kelsie, 24, a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, left Canberra last week and will be presenting her latest research to the XIX INQUA Congress, the international conference on Quaternary research.
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in geologic time.
Kelsie continues to research palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at the archaeologically and geologically significant site of Lake Mungo in western New South Wales.
The title of Kelsie’s presentation is: ‘Using chemical and isotopic records in ancient fish ear stones (otoliths) to construct a detailed chronology of lake level changes at Lake Mungo, NSW, Australia’.
Over the week of the Congress there is a fascinating array of presentations for Kelsie to attend and expand her experience. She also managed to make time to visit her cousin, Jessica Cooper, who is teaching English in Nagoya. Jessica studied Japanese at high school in Cootamundra and continued her studies into university.
Kelsie has previously travelled to Paris, France, and Salt Lake City, USA, as part of her studies. She has also presented in Australia but this is her first international presentation.