6th OSM abstract submission deadline extended to 11 February

The 6th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) will take place online from 16-20 May 2022.

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 11 February 2022. 

This event is a PAGES flagship event held approximately every four years and is a much anticipated fixture on the paleoscience calendar.

The meetings provide an invaluable opportunity to bring the Past Global Change community together from around the world to share, discuss, learn, and plan for the future. They are designed to encourage interaction between scientists from all career levels, disciplines and regions. 

PAGES working group sessions:
i. 2k Network, Session 28: Regional and transregional climate variability over the last 2000 years
ii. ACME, Session 34: Cryosphere change impacts on arctic coastal environments and ecosystems during the Holocene
iii. C-PEAT, Session 37:  Peatland ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services: How paleoscience and management can feed back to each other
iv. CRIAS, Session 22: Historical climate reconstruction and impacts utilizing written records
v. CVAS. Session 13: Climate variability across scales and climate states
vi. Floods, Session 16: Towards an improved understanding of past flood variability and examples on how such data can have a bearing on present and future flood risk management
vii. LandCover6k, Session 21: Deep histories of land-use and land-cover change in African montane regions
viii. PEOPLE3000, Session 40:  Integrating method and theory for global comparisons of human demography and climate change in the Late Holocene
ix. Joint initiative from QUIGS and PALSEA, Session 2: The last interglacial
x. SISAL, Session 3: New developments in speleothem paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental science
xi. VICS, Session 12: Volcanic impacts on climate and society

Endorsed and affiliated sessions:
i. Varves working group, Session 6: Sedimentary varves: High-resolution archives of past climate and environmental change

Integrative activities:
i. Extremes and risks integrative activity, Session 14: Past extremes and risks assessment: Linking the instrumental and the paleo record
ii. Tipping Points IA, Session 25: Tipping points in the Earth system: Can the past inform us about the future?
iii. Risk KAN, WCRP Grand Challenge Extremes, IRDR, Thresholds IA, Extremes IA, Session 20: Societal risk arising from global change: Past, present, future

If you would like to submit an abstract for any of the sessions, please keep the following guidelines in mind:

• Abstracts are limited to 500 words.
• You may only submit two abstracts.
• Abstracts should be written in English with correct spelling and good sentence structure; figures and tables should not be included.
• There is no fee associated with submitting an abstract.
• Abstracts will be reviewed.
• The session conveners will choose the oral and poster presentations.
• Accepted abstracts must be presented

> Abstract submission and registration

Financial support

A limited number of fee waivers is available. In order to apply for the fee waiver, please email PAGES2021@uiz.ac.ma, with the subject 6th PAGES-OSM grant application.
The email should include a motivation letter and the abstract of the paper to be presented at the OSM.
Deadline: 15 March 2022
Selection criteria: quality of the research, relevance of the submitted abstract to PAGES, geographic diversity, gender diversity
Notification of grant award: 10 April 2022

For more information on the OSM, to register, and view all the sessions, visit the website: www.pages-osm.org