LandCover6k people

LandCover6k (LC) and LandUse6k (LU) coordinates its work and products within two groups, a coordinating group and a core group.

The latter group ensures a regular dialogue between the coordinating group and other PAGES and external groups.

Coordinating group

Marie-Jose Gaillard (main coordinator; mailing list administrator)
Kathy Morrison (LU coordinator)
Marco Madella (LU coordinator)
Nicki Whitehouse (LU coordinator)
Sandy Harrison (Co-design with PMIP)
ECR Emily Hammer (LU global database)
Marc Vander Linden (LU global database)
Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha (LU Latin America)
ECR Andria Dawson (LC N America-Canada)
ECR Esther Githumbi (LC-LU Africa)
ECR Furong Li (LC-LU China)

PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN) representative

Esther Githumbi (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Data liaison officer

Cristiano Chiessi (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Core group

ECR Anne Dallmeyer and Victor Brovkin (dynamic vegetation and climate modelling)
Boris Vannière (PAGES GPWG2)
Zicheng Yu (PAGES C-PEAT)
Erle Ellis (Global Land Programme)
Kees Klein-Goldewijk (HYDE)
Jed O. Kaplan (ALCC KK)

Activities

LandCover6k consists of five activities:

- Pollen-based land-cover reconstructions (Land Cover, LC).
Coordinator: Marie-Jose Gaillard, Furong Li, Esther Githumbi and Andria Dawson

- Archaeology/History land-use reconstructions (Land Use, LU).
Coordinators: Kathy Morrison, Marco Madella, Nicki Whitehouse, Emily Hammer, Oliver Boles, Marc Vander Linden and Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha.

- Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change (ALCC, HYDE-KK) modeling.
Coordinators: Kees Klein-Goldewijk, Jed O. Kaplan.

- Co-design of climate model experiments with the PMIP Community (Clim).
Coordinators: Sandy Harrison, ECR Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt.

- Relative pollen productivities - methods and synthese (RPP).
Coordinator: M. Jane Bunting, ECR Yiman Fung.

The five activities consist of well-defined work packages (WPs). Read more about the WPS and their coordinators here.

Learn more and participate

Subscribe to the LandCover6k mailing list here.

This group is open to anyone who is interested. To find out more about how to participate, contact Marie-José Gaillard.