PAGES - Past Global Changes

Sea Level Special Issue

Details: Published: Friday, 03 February 2012 16:19

The prolific PAGES PALSEA Working Group has published a special issue - Sea Level and Ice Sheet Evolution: A PALSEA Special Edition. This special issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters includes a series of papers that consider diverse approaches, data and time scales together with carefully posed questions to better understand and place in context the rate and nature of contemporary and future ice sheet and sea-level evolution.

New Interglacial Article

Details: Published: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 11:33

The Past Interglacials (PIGS) Working Group has published an article titled Determining the natural length of the current interglacial in the journal Nature Geoscience.

PAGES-CLIVAR member call

Details: Published: Thursday, 22 December 2011 11:30

The PAGES-CLIVAR Intersection Panel is looking for nominations from scientists across the CLIVAR and PAGES communities who are interested in fostering cross-cutting initiatives that involve the use of paleo-climate data in extending and contextualising modern observations, using CLIVAR-related insights and understanding to inform the interpretation of past climate data, and/or helping link modelling of past, present and future.

Ocean2k Needs You!

Details: Published: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 10:46

The recently-formed Ocean2k regional PAGES 2k synthesis project is looking for volunteers to assist in assembling a metadatabase of marine paleodata for the past 2000 years available from publicly archived databases.

PAGES @ EGU 2012

Details: Published: Monday, 07 November 2011 11:52

EGUlogo_copy European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly (22-27 Jan 2012, Vienna, Austria)

Sessions with PAGES co-sponsoring or emerging from PAGES activities include those addressing the climate of the past two millennia, interglacial climate dynamics, phenological records, sediment & carbon fluxes and geochronological techniques.

Abstract submission closes on 17 Jan 2012.

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Biodiversity Theme Workshop

Details: Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:50

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Landscape planning for the future: using fossil records to map potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments for biodiversity and ecosystem services (9-11 Jan 2012, Oxford, UK)

This first workshop of the PAGES Focus 4 Biodiversity Theme will be held in collaboration with the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Oxford. Application deadline is 30 Nov 2011.

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Quaternary Science and Society

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 September 2011 11:24

QRA_PAGES Quaternary Science and Society:The Quaternary Research Association's Annual Meeting (4-6 Jan 2012, New Forest, UK)

Limited support (max £1000) for early career researchers submitting abstracts to PAGES session “Human-climate-ecosystem interactions: learning from the past”.

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