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Sea-level rise of +6m to come?

Details: Published: Thursday, 09 July 2015 20:53

bus-sea-level-revised-640px In a review paper in Science, PAGES working group PALSEA2 have analyzed sea levels during recent warm periods in Earth’s history when global average temperatures were similar to or slightly warmer than today – about 1°C above preindustrial temperatures.

They concluded that global average temperatures similar to today, but slightly higher polar temperatures, resulted in more than 6 metres of global average sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet loss.

The study confirms that our present climate is warming to a level associated with significant polar ice-sheet loss in the past and even our present temperature targets may commit Earth to at least 6 metres of sea-level rise.

Japanese film crew visits PAGES

Details: Published: Tuesday, 07 July 2015 14:12

lake-gerzensee-nhk Last week PAGES and the Oeschger Centre hosted a Japanese documentary film crew from NHK Special. They plan to feature the work of the 2k Network in their upcoming climate change documentary about, to be screened to an audience of at least 10 million people in Japan in September.

They had a full schedule when they visited us at the project office in Bern.

PAGES seeking Exec Director

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 09:40

PAGES is seeking an Executive Director to take over from our outgoing Executive Director, Thorsten Kiefer, who has just been appointed to the role of Future Earth Global Hub Director, Paris.

The new Executive Director will coordinate the PAGES project and run the International Project Office in Bern, Switzerland. Successful candidates will have a substantive research record in past global change science, possess broad interdisciplinary knowledge of past global change science and its application to sustainability research, be experienced in international scientific collaboration, and demonstrate the ability to lead an interdisciplinary, internationally distributed scientific community. Applications are due 26 July 2015.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2015 16:38

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

Classifying past land use

Details: Published: Monday, 29 June 2015 13:48

In a recent contribution to LandCover6k in Anthropocene, Kay and Kaplan synthesize the archeological record in sub-Saharan Africa to review prehistoric and historic land use systems.

They present a classification system that could be applied in a range of studies that seek to quantitatively categorize, map, and model past land use and land cover, or indeed in any study which seeks to understand how humans have transformed the planet at any point in time.

Land Use and Cover paper

Details: Published: Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:05

trondman-article-fig8 In a contribution to PAGES' Land Use and Cover Theme (the predecessor to Landcover6k) Trondman & Gaillard et al. have published a paper in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany researching the application of the REVEALS model.

This study is the most systematic test of REVEALS applications using multiple small sites instead of large site(s) and may be of particular interest to researchers using REVEALS to achieve land-cover reconstructions.

The value of paleorecords

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:44

In a new contribution to our Regional Integration Theme, John Dearing et al. present regional case studies combining paleorecords with conventional sources of historical information to show how multiple sources of data may aid the understanding of social-ecological system dynamics and thus research into sustainable management of landscapes, ecosystems, and resources.