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.
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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.