Nominate for 2015 SSC
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- Published: Friday, 15 November 2013 10:11
PAGES is accepting nominations of scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in 2015.
Contribute to ocean survey
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- Published: Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:13
The US National Research Council is conducting a Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences (DSOS 2015) and wants to hear from ocean scientists! Give your input at the survey's virtual town hall.
Global Change's 2k article
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- Published: Friday, 22 November 2013 12:19
The 2k Consortium's landmark synthesis of continental regional temperature histories over the last two millennia is featured in the cover story of the latest issue of IGBP's Global Change magazine ... read it
Ocean acidification summary
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- Published: Monday, 18 November 2013 12:30
IGBP's Ocean Acidification Summary for Policymakers 2013 has just been released, reporting on the state of scientific knowledge on ocean acidification. It's based on the latest research presented at The Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held in Monterey, California, in September 2012, and will be presented at the COP19 ocean acidification side event in Warsaw on Mon 18 Nov 2013.
Read more here.
iLEAPS 2014 conference
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- Published: Friday, 01 November 2013 11:19
Abstract submission for the 4th iLEAPS Science Conference: Terrestrial ecosystems, atmosphere, and people in the Earth system, (12 - 16th May 2014 in Nanjing, China) is now open.
Sessions 1, 3, 4, 6 and 12 have scope for paleo contributions. See the session list for more information.
Abstract submission deadline 31 January 2014. Find out how to apply here.
Focus 4 upcoming workshop
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- Published: Thursday, 17 October 2013 09:35
Abstracts are due 20 October for the PAGES supported, Focus 4 workshop “Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past” (in Leuven, Belgium from the 3-7 February 2014).
This will be a forum where scientists from both environmental sciences and humanities can meet and share their data and ideas on how to quantify past human-environment interactions.
More information here.
Sea Ice Proxies special issue
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- Published: Monday, 14 October 2013 12:22
The Sea Ice Proxies (SIP) Working Group has just published a special issue in Quaternary Science Reviews - Sea Ice in the Paleoclimate System: the Challenge of Reconstructing Sea Ice from Proxies.
This volume, an outcome of SIP's first workshop in Montreal in March 2012, addresses various sea ice proxies and their application to large scale sea ice reconstruction.