OSM Abstracts Now Online

OSM_brief_copy_copy_copy_copyAll OSM abstracts (talks & posters) are now online and can be found under their respective sessions. Some abstracts have been alloted to a different session than the one chosen because they were found to be more suitable in another OSM session.

Plese note that the early registration deadline has been extended to 15 November 2012.

 

50 Paleoecology Questions

Screen_Shot_2012-10-15_at_12.46.15Palaeo50 is a horizon scanning workshop aiming to identify the top 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology. Submit your questions by 31st October 2012 to ensure that palaeoecological science remains at the forefront of the global change research agenda. The questions will be collated into a priority list and submitted as a coauthored publication.

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Climate Summer School 2013

Screen_Shot_2012-09-25_at_11.09.51The NCCR Climate, Switzerland's Centre of Excellence in Climate and Climate Impact Research, invites young scientists to join leading climate researchers in the scenic Swiss Alpine village of Grindelwald for the 12th International NCCR Climate Summer School 2013.

The Summer School is focusing on the theme "from climate reconstructions to climate predictions".

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Varves Review Paper

VarvesReview_copyThe PAGES Varves Working Group has published its first review paper titled "Characteristics of Sedimentary Varve Chronologies – A Review" in Quaternary Science Reviews.

 

Adding Value to Earth Science

APN_copyAn article on the outcome of a PAGES session on Adding value to Earth-system science via networking, capacity enhancement and communication at the recent Planet Under Pressure Conference has been published in the latest Asia Pacific Network newsletter.

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Paleo-Ocean Acidification

OceanAcidA review article titled The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification has been published in Science. The article was an outcome of the discussions at a PAGES-supported workshop on Paleo-ocean acidification and carbon cycle perturbation events in 2010.

 

Sea Level Special Issue

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The prolific PAGES PALSEA Working Group has published a special issue - Sea Level and Ice Sheet Evolution: A PALSEA Special Edition. This special issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters includes a series of papers that consider diverse approaches, data and time scales together with carefully posed questions to better understand and place in context the rate and nature of contemporary and future ice sheet and sea-level evolution.

   

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