PAGES - Past Global Changes

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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New GEOTRACES-PAGES paper

Details: Published: Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:28

In December 2018, GEOTRACES and PAGES held the joint synthesis workshop "Trace element and isotope proxies in paleoceanography" in France.

The first resulting paper "230Th normalization: New insights on an essential tool for quantifying sedimentary fluxes in the modern and Quaternary ocean" has now been published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

Authors, led by Kassandra Costa, synthesized over 1000 sedimentary records of 230Th from across the global ocean at two time slices, the Late Holocene (0-5000 years ago, or 0-5 ka) and the Last Glacial Maximum (18.5-23.5ka), and investigated the spatial structure of 230Th-normalized mass fluxes.

Access the paper here. PAGES thanks everyone involved in the workshop and the paper.

Find out more about GEOTRACES, an international study of the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes, here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 22 January 2020 15:22

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in the first e-news for 2020.

Highlights include the deadline for new SSC member applications, the deadline for new working group and workshop support applications, extensive PAGES working group news and meeting information, recent products, ECN updates including a new survey, plus Future Earth, WCRP and WDS-Paleo information, and other opportunities.

Sustainability research paper

Details: Published: Monday, 20 January 2020 17:25

PAGES is involved in a new paper, released today in Nature Sustainability, which proposes a set of four general principles that underlie high-quality knowledge co-production for sustainability research.

"Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research" by Albert Norström et al. is a collaborative effort originally organized by Future Earth and its Global Research Projects, of which PAGES is one. PAGES Executive Director Marie-France Loutre is a co-author.

Definitions of knowledge co-production are diverse and often contradictory. The paper's authors define it as "iterative and collaborative processes involving diverse types of expertise, knowledge, and actors to produce context-specific knowledge and pathways towards a sustainable future."

Submit abstracts for EGU 2020

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 December 2019 11:16

The General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) takes place in Vienna, Austria, from 3-8 May 2020.

We encourage you to submit an abstract to one of the many PAGES sessions.

The abstract deadline is 15 January 2020.

Financial support for meetings

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:56

The next deadline for PAGES' workshop/meeting support applications is Wednesday 26 February 2020.

Applicants must contact an SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to explain the meeting plan and how it is relevant to PAGES.

The meeting or workshop should be scheduled to take place at least six months after the application deadline (i.e. preferably from September 2020 onwards).

PAGES offers meeting support under three categories of workshops:
- PAGES' working group meetings
- Educational meetings
- Open call meetings

Propose a new working group

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 December 2019 09:23

Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?

Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Wednesday 26 February 2020.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee to discuss your plans at least two weeks before you submit the proposal. Applications received without SSC member notification will not be looked upon favorably.