Scientific Steering Committee (SSC)

Figure 1: PAGES Scientific Steering Committee 2024. Photo taken from day two of the SSC Meeting held in Marrakech (Morocco) on 1 June 2024.

Left to right: Natasha Barlow, Keely Mills, Aixue Hu, Yan Zhao, Boris Vannière, Aster Gebrekirstos, Iván Hernández Almeida (PAGES IPO), Fabrice Lambert, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Juliana Nogueira (ECN), Ilham Bouimetarhan, Liping Zhou (PAGES Co-Chair & EXCOM), Marie-France Loutre (PAGES IPO), Paul Valdes, Yair Rosenthal, Shiling Yang, Martin Grosjean (PAGES Co-Chair & EXCOM)

Missing in the picture: Pradeep Srivastava, Lukas Jonkers

The PAGES project is guided by an international Scientific Steering Committee (SSC).

The authority for all PAGES policies and activities resides with the PAGES SSC. Members are active scientists who represent the major disciplines in the paleosciences and provide geographical representation. Alongside expertise and nationalities, the SSC also aims to obtain a balance in gender and career stages.

Applications to become a member of PAGES' SSC are welcomed from the community, with open calls made generally once a year. More information here.

SSC tasks include:

– Overall responsibility for the PAGES project
– Developing and promoting PAGES' scientific agenda
– Communicating with the PAGES International Project Office
– Acting as a liaison to PAGES workshop organizers and working groups
– Representing PAGES at meetings
– As opportunities arise, SSC members may also host PAGES workshops, guest edit PAGES Magazine or journal issues, and coordinate national PAGES activities.

Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of three years, with the potential of renewal for an additional term.

> Download the Terms of Reference for SSC members (pdf, 53KB).

> Download the Selection Process document for new SSC and EXCOM members (pdf, 100KB).

Executive Committee (EXCOM)

Five SSC members also serve on an Executive Committee (EXCOM), which is in more regular contact with the International Project Office. The EXCOM is selected by serving SSC members.
PAGES' Executive Director Marie-France Loutre is also an EXCOM member.

2024 SSC members

Name	Area of expertise	Country	2023	2024	2025
Paul Valdes*(EXCOM)	Climate modeling	UK	2	2
Boris Vannière*(EXCOM)	Paleoecology, Sedimentology, Paleofire	France	2	2
Aster Gebrekirstos**	Dendrochronology	Kenya	2	2	2
Liping Zhou** (Co-Chair & EXCOM)	Eolian deposits, Chronology, Carbon cycle	China	2	2	2
M. Eugenia Ferrero	Dendrochronology, Paleoecology	Argentina	1	2	2
Aixue Hu	Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography	USA	1	2	2
Keely Mills	Paleoecology, Paleolimnology	UK	1	2	2
Pradeep Srivastava	Fluvial Geology, Paleoclimate	India	1	2	2
Ilham Bouimetarhan	Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Palynology	Morocco	1	1	2
Martin Grosjean (Co-Chair & EXCOM)	Paleolimnology	Switzerland	1	1	2
Fabrice Lambert	Paleoclimatology	Chile	1	1	2
Lukas Jonkers	Paleooceanography	Germany	1	1	1
Shiling Yang (EXCOM)	Sedimentology, Geochemistry	China	1	1	1
Yan Zhao	Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, Pollen	China		1	1
Yair Rosenthal	Paleoceanography, Paleoclimate	USA		1	1
Natasha Barlow	Paleoceanography, Sea Level, Environmental Change	UK		1	1
Juliana Nogueira (ECN)	Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnolgy, Paleoecology	Czechia	1	1

Pavel Kambersky	Future Earth liaison	France

* Rotating off the SSC at the end of 2024
** Rotating off the SSC at the end of 2025
EXCOM = Executive Committee
ECN = PAGES Early-Career Network

SSC members, in pictures

2000	Pune	2001	Amsterdam	2002	Moscow	2003	Banff
2004	Kenya	2005	Beijing	2006	Mendoza	2007	Atherton
2008	Cape Town	2009	Troutdale	2010	Nagoya	2011	Bern
2012	London	2013	Goa	2014	Paris	2015	Las Cruces
2016	Cluj Napoca	2017	Zaragoza	2018	Minneapolis	2019	Addis Ababa
2020	Online	2021	Online	2022	Bern (hybrid)	2023	Bern

Further information

> PAGES fellows

> View past meeting minutes

> Apply to become an SSC member