Financial support for meetings

Details: Published: Thursday, 02 March 2017 14:21

mtg-support-img One month to go! The next deadline for PAGES' workshop/meeting support applications is 3 April 2017.

Applicants must contact an SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline (by Monday 20 March) to explain the meeting plan.

The meeting or workshop should be scheduled to take place, preferably, at least six months after the application deadline (i.e. from October 2017 onwards).

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

Apply to be on our SSC

Details: Published: Thursday, 02 March 2017 09:44

PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2018.

Three positions will be filled. The deadline for consideration is 3 April 2017. Read further for details on what's involved in being an SSC member and how to apply.

Early registration by 1 March

Details: Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:17

Tomorrow is the early registration deadline for PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting (Zaragoza, Spain, 9-13 May).

Plus it's also the deadline for choosing a field trip - 13 different adventures are on offer.

Save money and secure your place now. Take a look at the list of plenary speakers, sessions and nightly social events too.

If you are attending and want to have your abstract included in the book of abstracts, you must pay by 30 March.

Online registration closes 20 April.

All information can be found on the official website here.

PALSEA2 paper in QSR

Details: Published: Monday, 27 February 2017 10:41

PAGES' PALSEA2 working group recently published a paper in Quaternary Science Reviews which uses foraminifera preserved in new and existing cores of dated salt-marsh sediment.

Andrew Kemp et al. produced ∼3000-year long relative sea-level (RSL) histories for two sites in North Carolina (USA) and propose that a period of accelerating RSL rise from ∼600 CE to 1100 CE, which differs between the two sites, is a local-to regional-scale effect of dynamic ocean and/or atmospheric circulation.

Access the paper 'Extended late Holocene relative sea-level histories for North Carolina, USA' here.

QUIGS paper in Nature

Details: Published: Thursday, 23 February 2017 15:33

Members of the PAGES-PMIP Working Group on Quaternary Interglacials (QUIGS) published their findings on how astronomical forces lead to interglacials in Nature yesterday.

"A simple rule to determine which insolation cycles lead to interglacials", written by Chronis Tzedakis et al., discusses the use of a statistical model that correctly predicts every complete deglaciation of the past million years. They propose that the appearance of larger ice sheets was a consequence of an increase in the deglaciation threshold and in the number of skipped insolation peaks.

Access the paper here.

Access the authors' press release here (in English).

Access a press release and video from Université catholique de Louvain here (in French).

SISAL working group launch

Details: Published: Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:40

SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis) is a new PAGES working group which brings together speleothem scientists, speleothem-process modelers, statisticians and climate modelers to develop a global synthesis of speleothem isotopes that can be used both to explore past climate changes and in model evaluation.

Some of SISAL's key goals are to identify the current status of speleothem-based paleoclimate reconstructions globally and to initiate the compilation of raw data and metadata needed to create a publicly available global database of speleothem δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C records.