PAGES - Past Global Changes

Antarctica 2k - EGU and BBC

Details: Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 14:11

A paper from the PAGES 2k Network Antarctica 2k project, discussed at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, today, has been featured on the BBC News website.

Presented at the EGU by 2k Network member Liz Thomas, authors use 79 ice-core snow accumulation records in their paper "Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years", published in Climate of the Past in November 2017.

Thomas said the work was undertaken to try to put current ice losses into a broader context. Read the BBC interview with Thomas here.

Read the British Antarctic Survey press release here.

Read the Antarctica 2k paper here. It is a contribution to the upcoming 2k Network Special Issue "Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses".

GPWG2 workshop report

Details: Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 13:23

A new workshop report in Wildfire Magazine from PAGES' Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2) highlights the Global Charcoal Database and the group's productive history.

Written by Kendrick Brown et al., the report, titled "Applying paleofire records in ecological management", stems from the "Paleofire knowledge for current and future ecosystem management" meeting held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2017. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the applicability of fire history data in ecosystem management.

Read the report here.

Iso2k project update in Eos

Details: Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 12:46

The Iso2k project of the PAGES 2k Network has published a project update report in Eos.

Titled "Piecing Together the Big Picture on Water and Climate", authors Bronwen Konecky et al. discuss a new database which brings together water isotope data from many sources, providing an integrated resource for studying changes in Earth’s hydroclimate over the past 2,000 years.

Measuring changes in the relative abundances of heavy oxygen and hydrogen isotopes recorded in natural archives provides a way to reconstruct local, regional, and even global climate signals.

The Iso2k effort is currently the only global hydroclimate database being constructed for the Common Era, and provides a comprehensive synthesis of heavy oxygen and hydrogen isotope records in a format suitable for regional-scale climate reconstructions or for data-model comparisons.

Read the report here.

Land-cover compositional data

Details: Published: Tuesday, 03 April 2018 16:29

Members of the LandCover6k working group have constructed a hierarchical model for spatial compositional data to reconstruct past land-cover compositions for five time periods during the past 6000 years over Europe.

Behnaz Pirzamanbein et al.'s findings were published in a recent Spatial Statistics paper, titled "Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties".

Access the paper here.

PAGES ECN blog launch

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:21

Attention early-career researchers! The new The Early Pages blog launched today.

The blog is an integral part of PAGES ECN and covers three main categories: Science Stories, Experiences, and Opinion pieces.

The first two posts are by Aleksandra Pospieszyńska and Stella Alexandroff.

Would you like to write about something close to your heart too? To contribute, contact the blog organizers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 14 March 2018 12:35

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

Highlights include the call for applications to join PAGES' Scientific Steering Committee, PAGES Early-Career Network updates and the first paper published in PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting's special issue of Climate of the Past.

First paper - YSM special issue

Details: Published: Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:38

A paper detailing the first high-resolution Lake Dojran pollen record for the last 12,500 years has been published today in Climate of the Past.

It is the first contribution to the "Global Challenges for our Common Future: a paleoscience perspective" special issue stemming from PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting in 2017.

Lake Dorjan is a transboundary lake located on the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.