The PAGES (Past Global Changes) project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. The primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. ... more
PAGES is funded by the US and Swiss National Science Foundations and NOAA, is a core project of Future Earth, and a scientific partner of WCRP.
PAGES' 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place from 9-13 May 2017 in Zaragoza, Spain. The Scientific Program Committee has announced an open call for session suggestions. The deadline is 1 May.
The program will be comprised of plenary, parallel and poster sessions. The plenary sessions will host keynote talks intended to stimulate discussions on the role of past global change science in providing information about strategies for a sustainable world, on the engagement of stakeholders in active cutting-edge research, and on the added value of interdisciplinary approaches. The parallel and associated poster sessions will accommodate top-level ongoing research.
Congratulations to members of the Past Interglacials (PIGS) working group for publishing their synthesis paper in Reviews of Geophysics last month.
"Interglacials of the last 800,000 years" explores the similarities and differences between 11 interglacials - an extensive undertaking.
An editorial piece from Eos last week, titled "Insights on Climate Systems from Interglacials", discusses why the topic is so important right now.
PIGS was an active PAGES working group from 2008 to 2015. The group has now transformed into QUIGS - the PAGES-PMIP working group on Quaternary Interglacials.
Do you have a great idea for a paleoscience workshop or meeting? The next deadline to apply for PAGES' meeting support is 1 May 2016.
PAGES offers meeting support under three categories of workshops:
- PAGES' Working Group meetings
- Educational meetings
- Open call meetings
Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?
Propose a new PAGES Working Group by 1 May 2016 to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way.
A new paper from PAGES' PALSEA2 working group about the importance of databases was published earlier this week in Climate of the Past.
Written by Düsterhus et. al., "Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives" discusses the importance of an approach based on accessibility, transparency, trust, availability, continuity, completeness, and communication of content when creating databases.
Access the article here.
Do you find it hard to have meaningful connections with scientists from other disciplines?
A recent article in the special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews by Adam Izdebski, titled, "Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean" digs deeper into this dilemma.
Access the Quaternary Science Reviews special issue, titled "Mediterranean Holocene Climate, Environment and Human Societies", which emerged from a PAGES-supported meeting in Greece in 2014, here.
And read the personal accounts of natural scientist and special issue editor Karin Holmgren, archeologist Erika Weiberg and historian Izdebski in this excellent blog article from Future Earth.
