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Details: Published: Thursday, 23 July 2015 10:57

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

PAGES at AGU 2015

Details: Published: Monday, 22 June 2015 15:59

Abstracts are now invited for a number of proposed AGU 2015 PAGES sessions. Our Aquatic Transitions, LandCover6k, PALSEA2, and DICE working groups have proposed sessions, as well as the 2k Network. In addition, PAGES people and groups are also convening three cross-cutting IGBP sessions.

Our parent organization IGBP is co-sponsoring these sessions, and many others, as part of its Landmark Synthesis Event, intended to mark its final year.

The abstract deadline is 5 August 2015.

Reconstructions and simulations

Details: Published: Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:20

In a Climate of the Past study, D Zanchettin et al. reconcile reconstructed and simulated features of the winter Pacific/North American (PNA) pattern in the early 19th century.

This paper stems from the PAGES 2k/PMIP 2013 workshop on integrated analyses of reconstructions and multi-model simulations for the past two millennia, held in Madrid in November 2013.

Sea-level rise of +6m to come?

Details: Published: Thursday, 09 July 2015 20:53

bus-sea-level-revised-640px In a review paper in Science, PAGES working group PALSEA2 have analyzed sea levels during recent warm periods in Earth’s history when global average temperatures were similar to or slightly warmer than today – about 1°C above preindustrial temperatures.

They concluded that global average temperatures similar to today, but slightly higher polar temperatures, resulted in more than 6 metres of global average sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet loss.

The study confirms that our present climate is warming to a level associated with significant polar ice-sheet loss in the past and even our present temperature targets may commit Earth to at least 6 metres of sea-level rise.

Japanese film crew visits PAGES

Details: Published: Tuesday, 07 July 2015 14:12

lake-gerzensee-nhk Last week PAGES and the Oeschger Centre hosted a Japanese documentary film crew from NHK Special. They plan to feature the work of the 2k Network in their upcoming climate change documentary about, to be screened to an audience of at least 10 million people in Japan in September.

They had a full schedule when they visited us at the project office in Bern.

PAGES seeking Exec Director

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 June 2015 09:40

PAGES is seeking an Executive Director to take over from our outgoing Executive Director, Thorsten Kiefer, who has just been appointed to the role of Future Earth Global Hub Director, Paris.

The new Executive Director will coordinate the PAGES project and run the International Project Office in Bern, Switzerland. Successful candidates will have a substantive research record in past global change science, possess broad interdisciplinary knowledge of past global change science and its application to sustainability research, be experienced in international scientific collaboration, and demonstrate the ability to lead an interdisciplinary, internationally distributed scientific community. Applications are due 26 July 2015.