The secretariat for the new ten-year research initiative Future Earth has been announced. Future Earth's secretariat will span three continents with five global hubs in Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Boulder, Colorado (U.S.).
This will be complemented by regional hubs representing Latin America, Europe and North Africa and the Middle East.
C-PEAT (Carbon in Peat on EArth though Time) is a new PAGES working group focusing on the climate sensitivity and contribution of peat deposits to the global carbon cycle in the past, particularly their impact on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations.
Some of C-PEAT's key goals are to inform estimations on the future change in peatlands, as well as evaluations and validations of global climate-carbon cycle models.
EarthCube is a US National Science Foundation-sponsored, long-term effort to transform geosciences research by developing cyberinfrastructure, bridging disciplines, and sharing tools, data and information.
Geoscientists will be able to rapidly discover samples, software and data relevant to their work and it will revolutionize how that data can be viewed and what can be done with it.
In the next step, the NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology will compile a catalog of paleogeoscience databases, sample repositories and software - and they need your help.
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new PAGES working group on ocean circulation and carbon cycling: OC3.
OC3 will address questions about deep ocean circulation, carbon cycling and carbon storage variations, and the subsequent effect on the climate and atmospheric CO2 during the last deglaciation by synthesizing δ13C data from both benthic and planktonic foraminifera.
Congratulations to our long-time Focus 4 leader and former SSC and EXCOM member, John Dearing, who has been awarded the prestigious Murchison Award (2014) by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).
John was chosen to receive the award in recognition of publications he led, which have "contributed to the understanding of environmental change".
The PAGES-supported meeting “Past as Prologue: Holocene Climate as Context for Future Climate Change” (13-16 Oct, 2014 in Portland, USA) will explore analogies between the Holocene and today’s climate state.
Data collectors and modelers working on reconstructions of climate, ice, atmosphere and ocean variability of the past 11,500 years are invited to submit an abstract by the 21st of June.
The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 (EGU 2014) is fast approaching - 27 April - 2 May in Vienna.
Learn more about the PAGES related activities and sessions at this year's assembly.
