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Details: Published: Friday, 16 January 2015 10:05

Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 23 (1): Glacial Terminations and Interglacials

This issue of PAGES Magazine highlights the cross-disciplinary work of the Past4Future project, which ended in late 2014. The project aimed to combine proxy data with climate model simulations to investigate past abrupt climate changes during warm climate periods, specifically the last two interglacials, and evaluate the risk of abrupt changes in the future.

This issue also details the launch of four new PAGES working groups.

Approaching EGU deadlines

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 December 2014 11:03

EGU2015 will be held in Vienna 12-17 April 2015. This year’s theme will be “A voyage through scales”.

Our PALSEA2 working group and 2k Network, as well as the IMAGES initiative, are all convening sessions. Abstracts are welcomed until 7 January 2015. Read more ...

EGU supports many other activities in addition to the General Assembly. Apply by 31 December to organise a topical event sponsored by the EGU. Read more ...

IGBP's Global Change now out

Details: Published: Tuesday, 09 December 2014 16:49

IGBP's latest Global Change Magazine includes a special section on carbon with articles looking at the burning of crop residues and another on the effect of La Niña on global carbon sinks.

A feature article, with contributions from the endorsed PAGES group IHOPE, outlines how past human experience could inform current and future policies.

Future Earth's research agenda

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 16:20

The Future Earth research programme has published its Strategic Research Agenda following a year-long global consultation on the priorities for global change research.

Experts have identified eight key challenges for sustainable development.

New land cover working group

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 15:56

Our new LandCover6k working group will address anthropogenic land-cover change during the Holocene (from 6000 cal yr BP, or earlier) in Europe, the Americas, Africa, eastern Asia and Oceania.

Any scientist working with questions related to land-cover change in the past is welcome to participate in the working group. Involvement is also invited from historians and archaeologists.

INQUA Exec. Committee call

Details: Published: Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:45

A call is now open for nominations for the INQUA Executive Committee for 2015-2019.

The closing date for nominations is 31st January 2015. You can download the relevant application form on the News section of the INQUA web site.

New global monsoon study

Details: Published: Monday, 24 November 2014 09:39

Our Global Monsoon Working Group has just published a paper in the open access journal Climate of the Past.

This study, the first of two major syntheses of the group, takes a global view of monsoon variability across a wide range of timescales. The paper concludes with a discussion on future monsoon shifts in a warming world.