Our 30th anniversary
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- Published: Wednesday, 05 August 2020 12:56
Celebrations are starting for PAGES' 30th anniversary!
Since 1991, PAGES has been at the forefront of paleoscience research and collaboration, bringing together international scientists to study past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability.
PAGES is truly fortunate to have had steady scientific and financial support on which to build its contributions to global paleoenvironmental and sustainability science.
Thirty years ago, Hans Oeschger, Jack Eddy, Herman Zimmerman and others' efforts convinced the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) to create the precursors of PAGES, and to obtain funding for global scientific activities from the US and Swiss national science foundations.
Their objective – to use the past to discover complex Earth-system processes that are relevant to future dynamics, but which are difficult to access through short-term observations or experiments – was visionary.
All these years later, and through the transition of PAGES from the IGBP into a Global Research Project of Future Earth, this goal remains as relevant and motivating as ever.
PAGES co-chair Mike Evans said it is difficult to overestimate the significance of PAGES' longevity for accelerating the development of generations of scientists and of scientific advances.
