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Published: Wednesday, 11 November 2020 16:10

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings, and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the latest Past Global Changes Magazine; the announcement of the first PAGES Early-Career Award winner; a call to take the PAGES Survey; application deadlines to join our SSC and to propose new working groups or workshops; extensive working group news, products, and meeting updates; ECN news; and other paleo announcements.

Latest PAGES Magazine

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Published: Tuesday, 10 November 2020 10:44

Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 28 (2)

The new Past Global Changes Magazine, titled "Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies" is now available to read and download.

Historical climatology is the interdisciplinary research field that reconstructs past climates and weather and their societal impacts on the basis of written and physical records produced by people.

Guest edited by Chantal Camenisch, Sam White, Qing Pei and Heli Huhtamaa, this issue presents papers on the current state of research in several world regions, as well as on new methods and the analysis of new sources in the field. It is a product of the PAGES Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) working group.

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New SISAL paper & database

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Published: Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:16

A new data description paper for version two of the Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis (SISAL) working group's database is available in Earth System Science Data.

Members of the working group, led by Laia Comas-Bru, have made updates to the first database by improving its spatio-temporal coverage and creating new chronologies using seven different approaches for age–depth modeling.

The paper documents the necessary changes in the structure of the SISAL database to accommodate the inclusion of new age models and their uncertainties as well as the expansion of the database to include new records, and the quality-control measures applied.

Access the paper here.

Version two of the SISAL database (SISALv2) contains isotopic data from 691 speleothem records from 294 cave sites and new age–depth models, including age–depth temporal uncertainties for 512 speleothems. Access the database here.

Find out more about the SISAL working group here.

Alicja Bonk to receive ECA

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Published: Monday, 26 October 2020 17:20

PAGES is pleased to announce the inaugural PAGES Early-Career Award (ECA) recipient is Dr Alicja Bonk.

Alicja is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Division of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology at the Institute of Geography, University of Gdańsk, Poland.

She is an oceanographer specializing in marine geology, who now focuses on annually laminated lake sediments.

Alicja said it was an honour to receive the first PAGES ECA. "I am honestly surprised and touched by this decision," she said. "I promise to continue my efforts to improve my research and scientific outreach, and will be delighted to share my work with the PAGES community during the OSM."

The colleagues who nominated her recognized her expertize in paleolimnology, her cross-disciplinary work to improve knowledge of past global changes in East-Central Europe, and her ability to establish new collaborations. The ECA Committee also took into consideration her involvement in the development of the PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN) and continued work within the group.

The award will be presented at PAGES' 6th Open Science Meeting (OSM) in Agadir, Morocco, in May 2022. Alicja will also present her work during the meeting.

Find out more about the PAGES ECA here. The next call for nominations will be in two years.

Neotoma database webinar

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Published: Monday, 19 October 2020 17:52

The 3rd PAGES webinar, which focuses on the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, is now available on our YouTube channel.

Presenter Jack Williams gives an overview of the Neotoma Paleoecology Database, its mission, key features of its data model, its software ecosystem, growth trends and other recent developments, research and educational partnerships, and data governance.

The webinar is introduced by PAGES SSC Member Darrell Kaufman.

After Jack's presentation, there is a Q&A session.

This webinar was recorded on 15 October 2020. Access it here.

Access the first two PAGES webinars, with LiPD and WDS-Paleo, here.

New Iso2k database paper

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Published: Thursday, 15 October 2020 09:51

Members of the Iso2k project of the PAGES 2k Network recently published a database description paper in Earth System Science Data.

Bronwen Konecky et al. present this global compilation of previously published datasets from a variety of natural archives that record the stable oxygen (δ18O) or hydrogen (δ2H) isotopic compositions of environmental waters, which reflect hydroclimate changes over the CE.

The Iso2k database contains 759 isotope records from the terrestrial and marine realms.

Access the paper "The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate" here.

Find out more about the Iso2k project here.

Find out more about the 2k Network here.