The PAGES (Past Global Changes) project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. The primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. ... more
PAGES is funded by the US and Swiss National Science Foundations and NOAA, is a core project of Future Earth, and a scientific partner of WCRP.
A new PAGES 2k Network paper has been published in Nature Climate Change today.
Written by Julie Jones et al., "Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate" focuses on this highly complex and critically important component of the global climate system, which remains poorly understood. The consortium analyses recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region, and their trends in the context of paleoclimate records and climate model simulations.
The paper is a product of the PAGES-supported Antarctica and Southern Ocean workshop held in California in 2015.
Access the paper here.
A supporting article by Nerilie Abram et al. was also published in The Conversation. Access the article here.
A reminder that applications, abstract submissions and financial support requests for PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting are all due 1 October 2016.
We encourage all paleo ECRs to be involved in PAGES' flagship event, from 7-9 May 2017, in Morillo de Tou, Spain. The selection process is competitive. All details about the meeting and applications can be found here.
The YSM precedes PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting in Zaragoza, Spain, from 9-13 May 2017. Find out more about the OSM here.
If you are experiencing difficulties with the official OSM and YSM website, directly access the application forms here.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings, and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
A special issue of Quaternary International, resulting from a PAGES-supported conference, has recently been published.
Edited by Marcel Mindrescu and Daniel Veres, "Climate change in the Balkan-Carpathian region during Late Pleistocene and Holocene" contains over 25 papers concerning the Carpathian and Balkan ranges, which act as a boundary between two major climatic influences within the European continent.
The research articles published in this volume present the most valuable contributions to Central Eastern European paleoscience presented at CBW2014 and suggest that investigation topics, tackled by both locally established researchers and scientists for the larger palaeoclimate community, are very diverse.
Access the special issue here.
Short on time but keen to understand more about what PAGES does?
Read the latest PAGES pocketguide, explaining our science structure, themes and initiatives here.
PAGES welcomes guest scientist Dr Erle Ellis to our office in Bern.
Ellis, on leave for one year from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA, is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.
A long-time collaborator with PAGES, he will work with the LandCover6k working group and GLP on his GLOBE project. He is also working on a special issue of the Journal: Land on Anthromes 12k, and writing a book.
GLOBE currently supports real-time global geospatial analysis. The plan is to build a prototype for real-time geo-temporal analysis and visualization over the past 50,000 years. Ellis aims to show how both can connect in deep time, using online interactive tools.
Volunteers are being sought. People involved in paleodata archives, geostatistics and visualization are encouraged to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 30.
