Apply to be an SSC member

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Published: Monday, 21 March 2016 09:44

PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2017.

Two positions will be filled. One position needs to be filled by a colleague from Switzerland, due to part of PAGES' funding coming from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

The deadline for consideration is 1 May 2016. Read further for details on what's involved in being an SSC member and how to apply.

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Abstract/support deadline today

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Published: Monday, 21 March 2016 09:56

Today is the deadline to submit an abstract or apply for financial support for PAGES' Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Join an impressive list of confirmed guest speakers giving presentations on a wide range of local and global topics from 23-24 May.

For in-depth details about the symposium, and to submit abstracts and apply for support, click here.

To see the first round of confirmed speakers, click on the previous homepage article.

Experts in Romania

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Published: Thursday, 17 March 2016 11:39

A wealth of global paleoscience experts will give presentations at PAGES' "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium: From Local to Global" in Romania in May.

Guest speakers from North and South America, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Finland, South Africa and Spain will join forces in Cluj-Napoca to address broad topics on local and global change.

Will you be there to hear them? The deadline for submitting abstracts and requests for financial support is 21 March 2016, and the deadline for symposium registration is 1 April 2016. See the list, below.

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Call for PAGES OSM sessions

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Published: Wednesday, 16 March 2016 09:43

PAGES' 5th Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place from 9-13 May 2017 in Zaragoza, Spain. The Scientific Program Committee has announced an open call for session suggestions. The program will be comprised of plenary, parallel and poster sessions.

The plenary sessions will host keynote talks intended to stimulate discussions on the role of past global change science in providing information about strategies for a sustainable world, on the engagement of stakeholders in active cutting-edge research, and on the added value of interdisciplinary approaches. The parallel and associated poster sessions will accommodate top-level ongoing research.

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PAGES mentioned in Eos

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Published: Wednesday, 16 March 2016 09:43

Opinion piece in Eos, titled "Embracing Open Data in Field-Driven Sciences", highlights the valuable role PAGES plays in open field data accessibility.

Access the article here.

New cold period has big impact

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Published: Tuesday, 09 February 2016 16:22

A new PAGES' Euro-Med2k paper, published yesterday in Nature Geoscience, draws connections between a "Late Antique Little Ice Age" and major world events.

Scientists, led by working group leader Ulf Büntgen, suggest links between a century-long deep freeze across Europe and central Asia with famine, large-scale migration, a plague pandemic that ripped through the Eastern Roman Empire, and the expansion of the Arab Empire.

The paper, titled "Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD", identifies an unprecedented, long-lasting cooling in the northern hemisphere 1500 years ago. Access the article here. 

Access some of the international media coverage here. Learn more about Euro-Med2k here.