PAGES - Past Global Changes

Financial support for meetings

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 December 2019 10:56

The next deadline for PAGES' workshop/meeting support applications is Wednesday 26 February 2020.

Applicants must contact an SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to explain the meeting plan and how it is relevant to PAGES.

The meeting or workshop should be scheduled to take place at least six months after the application deadline (i.e. preferably from September 2020 onwards).

PAGES offers meeting support under three categories of workshops:
- PAGES' working group meetings
- Educational meetings
- Open call meetings

Propose a new working group

Details: Published: Thursday, 19 December 2019 09:23

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

Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Wednesday 26 February 2020.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee to discuss your plans at least two weeks before you submit the proposal. Applications received without SSC member notification will not be looked upon favorably.

2021 OSM & YSM in Morocco

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 December 2019 18:21

Held once every four years, PAGES’ Open Science Meeting (OSM) and Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) are the premier events in PAGES’ calendar and provide an invaluable opportunity to bring the international past global change community together to share, discuss, learn, and plan for the future.

PAGES is pleased to announce the 6th OSM and 4th YSM will be held in Agadir, Morocco, in May 2021.

The dates are:
YSM – 16-18 May 2021
OSM – 18-22 May 2021
Fieldtrips – starting 23 May 2021.

PAGES and the OSM/YSM organizing committees look forward to welcoming you in Agadir in 2021.

Updates will be made to the OSM/YSM website here.

Access past OSM and YSM information here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 11 December 2019 16:22

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

Highlights include the dates and venue for PAGES 6th OSM and 4th YSM, SSC updates, IPO updates, EGU call for abstracts, extensive PAGES working group news and new meeting announcements, recent products, ECN updates, the launch of a new PAGES-endorsed group CarpClim, and Future Earth and WCRP information.

GPWG2 fire policy brief

Details: Published: Monday, 09 December 2019 18:19

2019 has been an exceptional year for highly devastating, catastrophic fires. The destructive Amazon rainforest and Australian fires have received worldwide media attention, raising debates about the causes and consequences of future wildfires in a warmer world.

Members of the PAGES Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2), together with another 30 international colleagues, recently released a Policy Brief discussing how the integration of traditional ecological knowledge and long-term ecology could better support the evidence base for future decisions on fire policy and biodiversity conservation.

This Policy Brief results from a previous PAGES workshop hosted by the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, and supported by PAGES, the Quaternary Research Association (QRA), and CNRS/Université de Franche-Comté. The workshop attracted 30 international participants from 15 countries to discuss ongoing challenges on biodiversity conservation and fire policy at a global scale.

The Global Paleofire Working Group is a network of researchers promoting data collection and analyses of sedimentary charcoal records from around the world.

For more information, contact Daniele Colombaroli.

Follow GPWG2 on Twitter: @PaleofireWG; @diverse_k

CAS now supporting PAGES

Details: Published: Wednesday, 04 December 2019 10:28

PAGES is very pleased to announce the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has joined the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) as an official supporter of PAGES' activities.

CAS Vice-President Zhang Yaping and PAGES Executive Director Marie-France Loutre recently ratified the cooperation agreement, which is valid for a minimum of eight years. CAS is classified as a special member of PAGES.

Professor Zhang hailed the agreement as "a solid step towards more proactive engagement of CAS with the international science community on tackling issues of global importance."

"I am delighted that CAS is in a position to join forces, together with the Swiss Academy of Sciences, to support PAGES," said Professor Zhang, a molecular evolutionary biologist and an expert on conservation genetics.

"The scientific activities of PAGES are focused on deepening our understanding of the past climate and environmental changes on a global scale. Obviously, such endeavors require close collaboration among scientists around the world, and we see PAGES as an excellent international and interdisciplinary platform that will continue to facilitate such efforts."

Dr Loutre said Chinese researchers have always been actively engaged in PAGES since it was formed in 1991. "The CAS-PAGES agreement is going a step further," she said. "I am therefore very excited about the new opportunities that such a collaboration will raise."