The PAGES endorsed group IPICS has published a joint Climate of the Past/The Cryosphere special issue providing an overview of its First Open Science Conference held in Giens, France in 2012.
More than 30 papers give an overview of participants' contributions to the meeting, including results from ice core drilling projects in Antarctica, Greenland, non-polar glaciers and other Arctic sites.
Open access article published in Eos outlines the 2k Network's goals for Phase 2 of its proxy-based global reconstruction of past climate temperature for the last 2,000 years at the regional scale.
PAGES is calling for nominations of scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from 2016.
The deadline is 5 January 2015.
The PAGES' 2k Project invites you to join a worldwide effort to update and publish the next generation database of temperature-sensitive proxy climate records of the last two millennia.
The new dataset will be used for reconstructing global temperature, which will be published along with the database, and for addressing a range of research questions in future publications. Anyone with an interest in and knowledge of climate change during the past two millennia is welcome to join this effort to build a community-wide resource.
Read more about the plan for achieving this goal, including the guidelines for authorship and the timeline, here.
One of PAGES' sister projects, the Global Land Project, is seeking a host for its International Project Office (IPO) from 2016.
The ideal institute will have an international reputation for cutting-edge sustainability research with a focus on human-environment interactions.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 25 October 2014.
The Varves Working Group (VWG) is now welcoming contributions to its online Varve Image Portal, which summarizes existing varve images around the world.
The portal includes examples of seasonal sedimentary successions, specific sediment components, and structures of varved sediments. Different varve types from all continents are visualised by macroscopic, microscopic, and X-radiographic images with corresponding metadata.
Members of the C-PEAT working group have published a special issue in The Holocene on peatland carbon dynamics in the circum-Arctic region during the Holocene.
The articles provide a regional syntheses of major peatland regions, case studies at individual sites, novel approaches to investigating peatland carbon dynamics, and address important peatland processes. Some of this work emerged from a PAGES-supported meeting in Pennsylvania in 2013.
