PAGES - Past Global Changes

Ways to study past refugia

Details: Published: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 11:25

A New Phytologist paper, which emerged from a PAGES-supported meeting in the US in August 2012, addresses climate refugia, i.e. locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, and reviews three major methods used to infer their existence.

Past refugia can help with identifying contemporary refugia and clarify their conservation significance by revealing more about the processes and locations that buffer species against rapidly changing climate.

East Antarctic climate variability

Details: Published: Monday, 07 July 2014 10:32

Recent article in Geophysical Research Letters, features contributions from members of PAGES' Past Interglacials (PIGS) Working Group, and presents EPICA Dome C ice core data to document interglacial temperature changes occurring over the East Antarctic plateau.

Future Earth's secretariat

Details: Published: Thursday, 03 July 2014 15:15

The secretariat for the new ten-year research initiative Future Earth has been announced. Future Earth's secretariat will span three continents with five global hubs in Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Boulder, Colorado (U.S.).

This will be complemented by regional hubs representing Latin America, Europe and North Africa and the Middle East.

C-PEAT working group launched

Details: Published: Monday, 23 June 2014 17:16

C-PEAT (Carbon in Peat on EArth though Time) is a new PAGES working group focusing on the climate sensitivity and contribution of peat deposits to the global carbon cycle in the past, particularly their impact on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations.

Some of C-PEAT's key goals are to inform estimations on the future change in peatlands, as well as evaluations and validations of global climate-carbon cycle models.

NOAA setting up new catalog

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:32

logo earthcube cube-125x125 EarthCube is a US National Science Foundation-sponsored, long-term effort to transform geosciences research by developing cyberinfrastructure, bridging disciplines, and sharing tools, data and information.

Geoscientists will be able to rapidly discover samples, software and data relevant to their work and it will revolutionize how that data can be viewed and what can be done with it.

In the next step, the NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology will compile a catalog of paleogeoscience databases, sample repositories and software - and they need your help.

Ocean circulation group launch

Details: Published: Monday, 16 June 2014 13:37

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new PAGES working group on ocean circulation and carbon cycling: OC3.

OC3 will address questions about deep ocean circulation, carbon cycling and carbon storage variations, and the subsequent effect on the climate and atmospheric CO2 during the last deglaciation by synthesizing δ13C data from both benthic and planktonic foraminifera.

John Dearing wins RGS award

Details: Published: Tuesday, 10 June 2014 22:04

dearingj Congratulations to our long-time Focus 4 leader and former SSC and EXCOM member, John Dearing, who has been awarded the prestigious Murchison Award (2014) by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).