PAGES OSM/YSM postponed

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Published: Friday, 25 September 2020 19:43

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent large uncertainties on health, the travel restrictions and the economic crisis, PAGES and the Local Organizers of the OSM/YSM must unfortunately make the decision to postpone the OSM/YSM until May 2022. Moreover, the situation will be re-assessed mid-2021 before a final decision is made.

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Fire & Ice: New endorsed groups

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Published: Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:31

Two new endorsed groups launched today on the PAGES website.

The International Paleofire Network (IPN) has been created to continue the work of PAGES' Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2), which sunsetted in December 2019. IPN, which will run until 2030, is dedicated to paleofire science promotion and to paleofire open-access database management and development.

> Find out more about IPN

The other endorsed group is the H2020 Innovative Training Network on Deep icE corE Proxies to Infer past antarctiC climatE dynamics (DEEPICE). It will run from 2021 to 2025, a period of exciting times and challenges for the European ice-core community, as part of the Beyond EPICA oldest ice core project.

Participants in DEEPICE will also work on a future issue of Past Global Changes Magazine.

> Find out more about DEEPICE

Access all PAGES' endorsed and affiliated groups here.

PAGES survey 2021

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Published: Monday, 14 September 2020 16:08

Have your say!

PAGES has prepared a survey (Google doc) to collect suggestions from the paleoscience community regarding PAGES' activities in the coming years.

The survey responses will be presented and used as a basis for discussions at our 6th Open Science Meeting in Agadir, Morocco, in May 2021. (Update: The OSM has been postponed until May 2022, but we are still keen to hear your ideas and suggestions!)

There are three sections – About you, PAGES' priorities, and what PAGES can do for you.

The deadline for the survey, which takes about 10 minutes to complete, is Sunday 14 February 2021.

PAGES thanks you in advance for your feedback.

Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 09 September 2020 15:31

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

Highlights include deadline extensions for the YSM and OSM in 2021; the call for PAGES 30th anniversary memories; extensive working group news, products, and meeting updates; PAGES Early-Career Award nominations due 30 September; ECN, Future Earth and WCRP information; and many other relevant opportunities.

New OSM/YSM deadlines

Extensions have been made to several deadlines for PAGES' 6th Open Science Meeting (OSM) and 4th Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) to be held in Agadir, Morocco, from 16-22 May 2021.

YSM

The new application deadline for the YSM is 11 October (was 13 September). Approximately 80 early-career researchers will be chosen. The decision notification date for the selection of YSM attendees and those receiving grants is now 15 November.

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The YSM will be held 30km north of Agadir from 16-18 May 2021.

OSM

The deadline date for abstracts and financial support requests for the OSM has been extended to 15 October (was 1 October).

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The OSM will be held in Agadir from 18-22 May 2021.

PAGES is monitoring the coronavirus situation closely and will follow guidance from the relevant national public health authorities and global health organizations. We continue to hope that the YSM and OSM will take place, as scheduled, in person. PAGES and the Local Organizing Committee will continue to issue updates as information comes to hand.

PlioVAR marine synthesis paper

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Published: Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:17

A new paper "Lessons from a high-CO₂ world: an ocean view from  ∼ 3 million years ago" from the former PAGES' working group Pliocene climate variability over glacial-interglacial timescales (PlioVAR) was published in Climate of the Past today.

Authors, led by Erin McClymont, examine a single interglacial during the late Pliocene (KM5c, ca. 3.205±0.01 Ma) when atmospheric CO₂ exceeded pre-industrial concentrations, but were similar to today and to the lowest emission scenarios for this century.

As orbital forcing and continental configurations were almost identical to today, they are able to focus on equilibrium climate system response to modern and near-future CO₂. Using proxy data from 32 sites, they demonstrate that global mean sea-surface temperatures were warmer than pre-industrial values, by ∼2.3 degrees C for the combined proxy data (foraminifera Mg∕Ca and alkenones), or by ∼3.2–3.4 degrees C (alkenones only).

Their results demonstrate that even under low-CO₂ emission scenarios, surface ocean warming may be expected to exceed model projections and will be accentuated in the higher latitudes.

Access the paper here.

Fine out more about the work of PlioVAR here.