Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the new Past Global Changes Magazine, the new PAGES/WDS-Paleo scientific agreement, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, ECN updates, IPCC updates and other relevant opportunities.
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Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 27 (1)
The latest issue of Past Global Changes Magazine, titled "Paleo Constraints on Sea-Level Rise" is now available to read and download.
Guest edited by Natasha Barlow, Glenn Milne and Jeremy Shakun, this issue highlights scientific advances made over the last decade of PAGES' PALSEA working group, as well as identifies new challenges for the sea-level, ice-sheet, and broader paleo communities.
The included articles summarize our current understanding of sea-level and ice-sheet changes during past warm periods and the application of this knowledge to infer future sea-level hazard.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include updates from the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee meeting held in March, new "quick links" for PAGES working groups, working group news and meeting announcements, recent products, ECN updates, the call for Earth Commission nominations, and various funding opportunities.
The PAGES PALeo constraints on SEA level rise (PALSEA) working group special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews is now complete.
The primary aim of this special issue is to use the information contained in the geological record to improve the accuracy of sea-level projections for the coming centuries to millennia.
The 12 papers focus on documenting and synthesizing data on rates, sources, and budgets of sea-level variability during Quaternary/Pliocene warm periods, including the transition into and out of such periods, and assess the ability of models to simulate these observations.
Two PAGES working groups recently published workshop reports in Eos.
Molly Patterson, Rachael Rhodes and Claire Allen reported on the Cycles of Sea Ice Dynamics in the Earth System (C-SIDE) working group meeting "Developing Data and Modeling Capacity to Understand Past Changes in Sea Ice in the Southern Ocean" held in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2018.
Access the C-SIDE workshop report "Understanding past changes in Southern Ocean sea ice" here.
Carole Adolf, Donna Hawthorne and Daniele Colombaroli reported on the Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2) meeting "Diverse knowledge systems for fire policy and biodiversity conservation" held in Egham, UK, in September 2018.
Access the GPWG2 workshop report "Ancient fires and indigenous knowledge inform fire policies" here.
Find out more about the two working groups by clicking on the links in brackets.
A new special issue stemming from a PAGES-supported meeting in Romania was recently published by Quaternary International.
Guest edited by Marcel Mindrescu, "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience: From Local to Continental Perspective" contains 19 articles which aim to bridge paleoclimatological and paleoenvironmental knowledge gaps in the region.
Read the editorial here.
Access the special issue here.
This special issue is a product of the "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium: From Local to Global" held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in May 2016.
PAGES' parent organization Future Earth has launched a call for nominations for the Earth Commission and encourages you to nominate leading scientists to take part in this important mission to achieve global sustainability.
The deadline for nominations is 23 April 2019.
Human activities are pushing the planet out of a safe operating space for humanity. Urgent action is needed to slow, and even stop, this change.
To tackle the challenge, Future Earth is convening the Earth Commission – a group of leading scientists who will define the conditions needed to maintain a stable planet, and synthesize science needed to set targets for the life support systems of Earth: land, biodiversity, freshwater, ocean.
The Commission will inform the work of a new Science Based Targets Network developing methodologies for companies and cities to set specific science-based targets.
Read more and nominate here.
