PAGES - Past Global Changes

PAGES Meeting Support

Details: Published: Monday, 23 May 2011 10:27

The deadline for applying for PAGES meeting support is 5 March 2012.

PAGES offers meeting support for three categories of workshops that are relevant to PAGES Foci and Cross Cutting Themes:

1. PAGES Working Group Meetings: For workshops organized by PAGES Working Groups.
2. Educational Meetings: For workshops that have a strong educational component.
3. Open Call Meetings: For all other workshops within the scope of PAGES Science.

For application guidelines, visit the meeting support page.

Nominations Invited

Details: Published: Monday, 09 May 2011 10:51

SSC PAGES invites nominations of scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), which is responsible for overseeing PAGES activities. Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of 3 years, with the potential for renewal for an additional term.

Up to 3 new members are sought to join in 2013. Deadline for sending in nominations is 5 March 2012.

> Nomination guidelines

Young Scientists Conference

Details: Published: Friday, 29 April 2011 11:36

RussianYoung The International Young Scientists Meeting: Land-Ocean-Atmosphere interactions in the Changing World (September 5 - 10, 2011, Spit, Russia) is organized and co-sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and PAGES.

The aim of the conference is to promote our understanding of changes in all components of the geosphere-biosphere system and to assess the causes and consequences of these changes for ecosystems and humans. The conference is considered as a preparatory early career researcher meeting for the major international science conference “Planet Under Pressure 2012: New knowledge towards solutions” to be held in 2012 in London.

Glacial Ocean Atlas Endorsed

Details: Published: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:06

GOA Glacial Ocean Atlas (GOA) is the latest project to be endorsed by PAGES. The main purpose of the GOA platform is to support and document the ongoing collection and synthesis of marine paleoenvironmental data for the Last Glacial Maximum.

PAGES OSM Special Issue

Details: Published: Friday, 08 April 2011 15:12

thumbnail_OSM_CP The PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) 2009 Special Issue "Retrospective views on our planet's future" has now been published in its entirety in Climate of the Past.

Early Career Events

Details: Published: Friday, 08 April 2011 14:30

Conferences, workshops and summer schools that might be of interest to early career researchers:

PR Challenge

Details: Published: Friday, 08 April 2011 14:07

PRchallenge The last two millennia Paleoclimate Reconstruction (PR) Challenge is now "live" and available for participation. The "Challenge" is designed to engage the scientific PR community in examining its methods in a common framework for the purpose of evaluating their relative strengths and weaknesses.