PAGES - Past Global Changes

Nominations sought

Details: Published: Tuesday, 11 February 2014 10:18

The new ten-year research initiative, Future Earth, is seeking nominations for its inaugural Engagement Committee.

This committee will enable high-level engagement with Future Earth's stakeholders including policy-makers, business and civil society and provide leadership and creative thinking on how to bridge the gap between knowledge and solutions for sustainable development.

Deadline for applications 14 March 2014. Read more.

YSM special issue

Details: Published: Monday, 10 February 2014 16:26

Published articles are now appearing in the Climate of the Past special issue emerging from the PAGES 2nd Young Scientists Meeting.

All of the first authors are early-career researchers who attended our 2nd YSM held in Goa, India in February 2013.

View the published papers and those in the pipeline.

50 priorities in paleoecology

Details: Published: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 10:09

"Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology" in the Journal of Ecology.

This article presents the results of a two-day PAGES sponsored workshop held at Oxford University in December 2012 in which individuals were asked to identify their top priority questions in various branches of palaeoecological science through an open application and online voting process.

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INQUA 2015 call for sessions

Details: Published: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 09:31

The XIX INQUA Congress: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization to be held in Nagoya, Japan from 27th July to 2nd August 2015 is now calling for session proposals.

Guidelines and templates for submission are available on the conference website.

The final session list will be announced between May to June 2014.

Nominate for 2015 SSC

Details: Published: Friday, 15 November 2013 10:11

ssc-2013-Goa PAGES is accepting nominations of scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in 2015.

Contribute to ocean survey

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:13

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The US National Research Council is conducting a Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences (DSOS 2015) and wants to hear from ocean scientists! Give your input at the survey's virtual town hall.

Global Change's 2k article

Details: Published: Friday, 22 November 2013 12:19

The 2k Consortium's landmark synthesis of continental regional temperature histories over the last two millennia is featured in the cover story of the latest issue of IGBP's Global Change magazine ... read it