Scientific Steering Committee (SSC)
 PAGES Scientific Steering Committee 2022. Photo taken from day three of the Hybrid SSC Meeting held on 01 June 2022.Online (top row, left to right): Fabrice Lambert, Zhimin Jian (PAGES Co-chair), Liping Zhou
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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.
2023 SSC members
| Name | Area of expertise | Country | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
| Zhimin Jian* (Co-Chair & EXCOM) |
Paleoceanography, Marine Micropaleontology | China | 2 | 2 | ||
| Emilie Capron* | Paleoclimatology | France | 2 | 2 | ||
| Paul Valdes**(EXCOM) | Climate modeling | UK | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Boris Vannière**(EXCOM) | Paleoecology, Sedimentology, Paleofire | France | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Aster Gebrekirstos | Dendrochronology | Kenya | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Liping Zhou (EXCOM) | Eolian deposits, Chronology, Carbon cycle | China | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| M. Eugenia Ferrero | Dendrochronology, Paleoecology | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Aixue Hu | Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography | USA | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Keely Mills | Paleoecology, Paleolimnology | UK | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Pradeep Srivastava | Fluvial Geology, Paleoclimate | India | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ilham Bouimetarhan | Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Palynology | Morocco | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Martin Grosjean (Co-Chair & EXCOM) |
Paleolimnology | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fabrice Lambert | Paleoclimatology | Chile | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Lukas Jonkers | Paleooceanography | Germany | 1 | 1 | ||
| Shiling Yang | Sedimentology, Geochemistry | China | 1 | 1 | ||
| Juliana Nogueira (ECN) | Paleoclimatology, Paleolimnolgy, Paleoecology | Czechia | 1 | |||
| Gilles Marciniak | Future Earth liaison | France |
* Rotating off the SSC at the end of 2023
** Rotating off the SSC at the end of 2024
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 | TBD |
Further information
> Apply to become an SSC member