The recently-formed Ocean2k regional PAGES 2k synthesis project is looking for volunteers to assist in assembling a metadatabase of marine paleodata for the past 2000 years available from publicly archived databases.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly (22-27 Jan 2012, Vienna, Austria)
Sessions with PAGES co-sponsoring or emerging from PAGES activities include those addressing the climate of the past two millennia, interglacial climate dynamics, phenological records, sediment & carbon fluxes and geochronological techniques.
Abstract submission closes on 17 Jan 2012.
Landscape planning for the future: using fossil records to map potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments for biodiversity and ecosystem services (9-11 Jan 2012, Oxford, UK)
This first workshop of the PAGES Focus 4 Biodiversity Theme will be held in collaboration with the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Oxford. Application deadline is 30 Nov 2011.
Quaternary Science and Society:The Quaternary Research Association's Annual Meeting (4-6 Jan 2012, New Forest, UK)
Limited support (max £1000) for early career researchers submitting abstracts to PAGES session “Human-climate-ecosystem interactions: learning from the past”.
Limited travel support (priority for early career researchers) is available for a PAGES co-sponsored workshop on "Assessing the History of the Greenland Ice Sheet through Ocean Drilling" scheduled for 7-9 Nov 2011 in Corvallis, Oregon.
PAGES had invited applications from groups interested in hosting the 4th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) and the associated 2nd Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) in 2013. A total of 10 exciting bids from 5 different continents were received and PAGES is delighted with this strong interest in hosting the events.
The PAGES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) decided that the 4th PAGES OSM & 2nd YSM will be held in Goa, India in Feb 2013.
Stefanie Wirth of ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Yoshimi Kubota of Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) and M.C. Manoj of NCAOR (India) were chosen as PAGES Poster Award winners by the INQUA Judging Panel at the XVIII INQUA Congress held in Bern, Switzerland (20-27 July 2011).
>View posters (pdf)
