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Welcome to PAGES

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, a registered association for scientific research and networking, is open and inclusive to all scientists interested in past global changes. Science within PAGES is conducted by working groups, which are open to all paleoscientists working on the topic. Get involved by contacting the working group leaders, signing up to mailing lists, and attending teleconferences and/or workshops.

PAGES is funded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and supported in-kind by the University of Bern, Switzerland. For administrative purposes, it is part of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR). PAGES is a Global Research Project of Future Earth, a scientific partner of WCRP, and a partner of WDS-Paleo.

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Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:10

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

Highlights include Scientific Steering Committee announcements and call for applications; final call for PAGES memories for our 30th anniversary magazine; announcement of two new PAGES' working groups; 4th PAGES webinar, on 8 February, with Hominin Dispersals Research Group (HDRG); IPCC AR6 updates; take the PAGES Survey; application deadlines to propose new working groups or apply for workshop support; extensive working group news, products, webinar recordings, and rescheduled meeting information; ECN news; and other paleo announcements.

Human Traces group launches

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Published: Monday, 18 January 2021 15:24

img logo human tracesPAGES welcomes the new Human Traces working group to the fold.

Human Traces will focus on the long legacy of pre-Anthropocene human impacts and aims to address the knowledge gap about spatial and temporal variations in early human impacts.

Leader Nathalie Dubois said the group will start with a paleolimnological approach and will continue the work started by PAGES' former working group Aquatic Transitions.

"Human activities in the Paleoanthropocene had regionally asynchronous impacts that manifested differently in various parts of the world," Nathalie said.

"Our new working group aims to create a global synthesis of human traces in geologic archives, to place the Anthropocene within a longer temporal context.

"We welcome scientists from any discipline working with or searching for human traces in the stratigraphic records. To encourage participation from all over the world, we will rely on online meetings and workshops at larger international conferences such as the PAGES OSM."

Follow the group on social media and join its mailing list to be involved. All details.

Future Earth-WCRP statement

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Published: Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:14

Future Earth and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) have announced a joint statement to address major societal challenges.

WCRP and Future Earth are initiatives that are driven by visions of creating a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world. Future Earth is the parent organization of PAGES, and WCRP is our scientific partner (find out more here).

WCRP coordinates international climate science to address key research areas that are either too large or too complex to be tackled by a single nation, agency, or scientific discipline. Future Earth develops the knowledge and tools that government, communities, and companies need to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

There have long been areas of synergy between the two initiatives on many levels, but this has largely taken place organically and on an ad hoc basis.

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New DiverseK group launch

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Published: Thursday, 17 December 2020 14:35

img logo diversek wtitlePAGES is pleased to announce the launch of the new working group DiverseK. It is a network of environmental and social scientists working to develop recommendations for the most pressing environmental and social justice issues.

Worldwide, the loss of biodiversity through increased land-conversion, regional climate changes and catastrophic wildfires are causing irreversible consequences for habitats and livelihoods. This calls for a reassessment of environmental policies in many areas under protection, particularly where conservation plans lack the full knowledge base to solve existing conflicts between restoration targets, local livelihood/traditions, and ecological processes in the context of their long-term variability.

DiverseK working group leader Daniele Colombaroli believes the time is right to tackle the group's goals and objectives.

"There is an urgent need to integrate diverse knowledge coming from (paleo)ecological and socio/cultural disciplines to tackle complex sustainability challenges in the future," he said.
 
"We welcome people interested in bridging disciplines (paleoecology, traditional ecological knowledge, dendroecology) and contributing to our group discussion with case studies from their study regions related to biodiversity conservation, fire impacts, ecosystem management and restoration."

Find out more about DiverseK and sign up to its mailing list here.

The groundwork for DiverseK was established in the last years of the PAGES Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2) and they released a Policy Brief in 2019.

SISAL leader's data award

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Published: Thursday, 10 December 2020 12:52

img sisal lcb dec 20PAGES congratulates SISAL working group leader Laia Comas-Bru on receiving the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)/Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) International Data Award.

Laia, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading, UK, and Lijing Cheng, associate professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were announced as joint winners for 2020. Part of the award involves presenting their work at a conference, when possible.

Laia has been leading PAGES' Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis (SISAL) working group since it launched in 2017. The group is now in its second phase.

"I am honoured to be the joint recipient of this award," she said. "I am grateful to the brilliant early-career researchers in SISAL, who jumped into whatever boat I was suggesting with their eyes closed, and to the senior researchers who supported my leading endeavors and provided sound advice in the background.

"Spearheading SISAL has been 'a joyful challenge with many bumps', and I am truly humbled to see all the efforts recognized in this award. Thanks to the colleagues who surprised me with this nomination!"

> SISAL recently released a second version of its speleothem isotope database

> Find out more about the work of SISAL and join

> Read the official announcement on the WCRP website

Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 09 December 2020 17:10

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

Highlights include Scientific Steering Committee announcements and call for applications; the reopening of the call for PAGES memories for our 30th anniversary magazine; AGU announcements; submit an abstract by 13 January for one of the PAGES working group sessions at the EGU in 2021 (vEGU21: Gather Online); IPCC AR6 updates; take the PAGES Survey; application deadlines to propose new working groups or apply for workshop support; extensive working group news, products, webinar recordings, and rescheduled meeting information; ECN news; and other paleo announcements.

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Latest Magazine

PAGESmagazine 2020(2) Cover web

Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies

Editors: Chantal Camenisch, Sam White, Qing Pei, Heli Huhtamaa, and Sarah Eggleston

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PAGES OSM & YSM

The 6th PAGES Open Science Meeting and 4th Young Scientists Meeting will be held in May 2022 in Agadir, Morocco. Find out more here.

> Access all past OSM/YSM meetings

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