PAGES - Past Global Changes

Sea level in the western Med

Details: Published: Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:55

A new paper on relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period was published in Nature Geoscience yesterday.

Victor J. Polyak et al. found that their sea-level record does not support the hypothesis of rapid sea-level fluctuations within MIS-5e. Instead, they suggest that melting of the polar ice sheets occurred early in the interglacial period, followed by gradual ice-sheet growth.

This paper stems from a PAGES-supported workshop held in Majorca, Spain, in April 2012.

Access the paper here.

PAGES seeks Science Officer

Details: Published: Monday, 10 September 2018 17:23

PAGES seeks a new Science Officer for our dedicated team at the International Project Office in Bern, Switzerland, to take over responsibilities for implementing and developing paleoscience activities, managing PAGES products, and networking within the international Global Change community.

Ideal start date: 1 December 2018.
Applications close: 30 September 2018.

Deadline 4 Oct - new WGs

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 September 2018 14:45

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

Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a paleoscience question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Thursday 4 October 2018 at 17:00 UTC.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee by 20 September to discuss your plans before submission. Applications received without SSC notification will not be looked upon favorably.

FWG lake sediments paper

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 September 2018 12:25

Members of PAGES' Floods Working Group (FWG) recently published an invited review in the journal Water Security.

Bruno Wilhelm et al. review major methodological and technological advancements in the study of lake sediments with the aim to showcase new, robust and continuous paleoflood series. Methodological advancements of flood archives such as tree rings and speleothems are also addressed.

Recent developments in these fields have resulted in a growing paleoflood community that opens for cross-disciplinary analysis and synthesis of large data sets to meet the pressing scientific challenges in understanding changes in flood frequency and magnitude.

Access the paper here.

Learn more about FWG and sign up to its mailing list here.

New PALSEA SI contribution

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 September 2018 10:40

palsea si romundset 18 Sediment sequences obtained from 24 isolation basins located on the Skagerrak coastline are used to develop new sea level index points for southern Norway in a new PALSEA working group special issue paper.

Anders Romundset, Thomas Lakeman and Fredrik Høgaas recently published "Quantifying variable rates of postglacial relative sea level fall from a cluster of 24 isolation basins in southern Norway" in the PALSEA special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews.

Results provide new constraints for future numerical models aimed at reducing uncertainty in century-scale relative sea-level projections for Fennoscandia.

Read the paper here. Access the full special issue here. Learn more about PALSEA here.

LandCover6k RRPs China paper

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 September 2018 12:27

Members of PAGES' LandCover6k working group published a new paper in Frontiers in Plant Science today.

Written by Furong Li et al., it is a synthesis of pollen productivity estimates (RPPs) from temperate China, and a proposal of RPPs datasets for the application of the models REVEALS and LOVE for quantitative pollen-based reconstructions of plant abundance/cover.

Access the paper "A Review of Relative Pollen Productivity Estimates From Temperate China for Pollen-Based Quantitative Reconstruction of Past Plant Cover" here.

Learn more about LandCover6k and sign up to their mailing list here.

Two new data agreements

Details: Published: Monday, 20 August 2018 11:05

To advance its goal of accelerating scientific discovery by facilitating open and verifiable global paleo science, PAGES has signed two new commitments concerning the preservation and reuse of the scientific data underlying the research it helps coordinate.