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PAGES Newsletter April 2022

PAGES Newsletter April 2022

CONTENTS

1. OSM and YSM
2. Past Global Changes Magazine - Latest issue is available! 
3. Mobility Fellowships for African, Latin American and Caribbean early-career scientists
4. Congratulations to Dr. Aster Gebrekirstos 
5. Working group news
6. PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN)
7. Supported and endorsed workshops, and endorsed, affiliated and former working groups' news
8. Recent publications
9. Future Earth
10. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
11. Other news and opportunities

1. OSM and YSM

4th PAGES Young Scientists Meeting (YSM)
09-13 May 2022 - Online
6th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM)
16-20 May 2022 - Online
The deadline for OSM registration is 9 May.
> Register 

2. Past Global Changes Magazine (30)1: “Using Paleoecology in Restoration Ecology” 

2021 marked the beginning of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, aiming to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. Honoring this important initiative, this issue of PAGES Magazine highlights the immense, and largely untapped, potential for synergy between paleoecology and restoration ecology. Examples illustrate the importance of paleoecology in establishing restoration “baselines” or reference conditions, determining the degree of anthropogenic impact, maintaining cultural landscapes, managing fire, and restoring missing ecosystem processes such as herbivory and pollination. This issue highlights opportunities to seamlessly integrate paleoecology and neo-ecology alongside other disciplines and knowledge streams, thereby contributing to the mainstreaming of long-term data into restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation. 
> Access Magazine 
If you are interested in receiving a hard copy of the magazine, please complete this online form with your updated postal address by 10 April: https://pastglobalchanges.org/form/pages-magazine

3. Mobility Fellowships for African, Latin American and Caribbean early-career scientists

PAGES actively promotes the participation of early-career scientists and scientists from low- and middle-income countries in relevant working groups, workshops, and other activities. As part of this effort, PAGES launched two new mobility fellowships in 2021 to support early-career researchers in low- and middle-income countries. The call for applications for both the PAGES-IAI fellowship program aimed at Latin American and Caribbean early-career scientists and the Inter-Africa mobility program aimed at African early-career scientists is now open. Deadline for applications is 19 August.
> More information 

4. Congratulations to Dr. Aster Gebrekirstos 

PAGES would like to congratulate Dr. Aster Gebrekirstos, PAGES SSC member, on being selected as a featured scientist in the new book “Earth, Oceans and Skies” by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The book aims “to accord agency to the scientists and to hero their science. Thus, Earth, Oceans and Skies is autobiographical, where the scientists tell their own lives as they see themselves and their existence in the world of science. We recognize and embrace the subjectivity of autobiography; indeed it is in the biases of this approach that the strength of this book lies." > Access the publication 

5. Working group news

i. Mailing lists
Did you know all PAGES working groups have designated mailing lists? Stay up to date directly. > Details for all mailing lists

ii. Cycles of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth system (C-SIDE)
a. See point 8 for details on recent publications. 
b. The group is preparing the Climate of the Past special issue "Reconstructing Southern Ocean sea-ice dynamics on glacial-to-historical timescales". The special issue editors are Karen Kohfeld, Xavier Crosta, Alice Marzocchi, Juliane Müller, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, and Laurie Menviel. The deadline for submissions has been extended until 31 December 2022. > More information  

iii. Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS)
a. See point 8 for details on recent publications. 
b. CVAS leaders are planning a joint CVAS-PAGES2k meeting on regional variability at the centennial timescale. The group would like to implement this as a summer meeting in person (maybe incl. hybrid). Please get in touch with the CVAS leaders if you are interested in helping with the physical and/or scientific organization. > Contact leaders  
c. The group is also planning a new CVAS seminar series, with a focus of the former Paleoclimate Reanalyses, Data Assimilation and Proxy System modeling (DAPS) working group. In this series, they hope to cover all areas of proxy system modeling which have been developed up until now. If you want to help with the organization of the seminar, or have expertise in proxy system modeling and wish to contribute a discussion or talk, please get in touch with the group leaders. > Contact leaders 

iv. Human Traces
a. The recording of the last webinar held on 16 March with Dr. Jérémy Jacob (LSCE, France) on “Human traces in sewers: taking the pulse of the city” is available to watch online. > Watch recording 
b. The next webinar is scheduled to take place on 2 May at 15:00 UTC with Dr. Encarni Montoya (University of Liverpool, UK) on “Amazonia history: Contribution of palaeoecology to the scientific debate of pre-Columbian occupation and multi-proxy examples from northern South America.” > Calendar 

v. Understanding past ecological trends (PaleoEcoGen
a. The recordings of the last seminar in the seminar series is available to watch online: "Detecting change in palaeoecological time series, old and new" by Dr. Gavin Simpson on 24 March (Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Denmark) > Watch 
b. The seminar series continues on 21 April at 15:00 UTC on "Tracking abrupt ecological change in the Quaternary fossil record" with Dr. Allison Stegner (Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology & Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University, USA) > Calendar 

vi. Paleo constraints on sea level rise (PALSEA)
a. See point 8 for details on recent publications. 
b. The working group would like to bring to attention the commendable list of 32 papers that have been published in the last year acknowledging PALSEA. The full list of almost 200 PALSEA peer review articles, PAGES articles and special issues can be found on the PALSEA website here.  
c. The next PALSEA workshop "Palaeo sea level and ice sheets for Earth's future" will be in Singapore from 17-20 July, right after the WCRP conference. Abstract submission will open soon. Please subscribe to the mailing list to receive updates. > Calendar 
d. The next talk in the webinar series on "Ice Sheets, Sea Level and GIA" in the months leading up to the WCRP Sea Level Meeting is scheduled for 20:00 UTC on 12 April / 08:00 Wellington, N.Z on 13 April, with Nicholas Golledge on "Climate forced changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Evidence, inference, and speculation". > Calendar 

vii. Pliocene and Miocene climate variability over glacial-interglacial timescales (PlioMioVAR
a. The PlioVAR working group is sad to announce that we lost one of our founding members, Antoni Rosell-Mele, in December 2021. Those who attended the “Barcelona workshop” organized by Toni in 2014 will have fond memories of his hospitality and his enthusiasm for developing a collaboration and synthesis of our data and modeling approaches, sowing the seeds for the subsequent development of the PlioVAR working group. Toni had previously worked on similar themes for the MARGO synthesis of the last glacial maximum ocean, and had published extensively on biomarker reconstructions of past environmental change, including sea surface and lake temperatures, biological productivity, dust and iceberg transport of organic matter, and many proxy calibration studies. He will be missed.
b. Abstract submission for the Galileo Conference titled “The Warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modelling communities Conference (23-26 August 2022, Leeds, UK)” closes on 12 May. > Submit abstract 

viii. PAGES-PMIP Working Group on Quaternary Interglacials (QUIGS)
a. See point 8 for details on recent publications. 
b. The QUIGS working group will be hosting a workshop entitled “Interglacials of the 41kyr-world and the Middle Pleistocene Transition” from 19-21 September in New York, USA (both in-person and remote participation). There will be a limited amount of space available for the workshop. The group particularly welcomes applications from early-career researchers and from those based in developing economies working on relevant topics (partial financial support will be provided, subject to availability). Expressions of interest should be sent to Baerbel HoenischJerry McManus and Chronis Tzedakis by 29 April. > Calendar

ix. Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis (SISAL)
a. SISAL is currently accepting submissions for SISAL v3; these include: 1. new records published since SISALv2 came out; 2. speleothem trace element records; and 3. d13C records that were previously not included. Please contact the steering committee or your regional coordinators for more information or questions. > SISAL people 
b. Organizers of the PAGES-supported "Climate Change, The Karst Record (KR9 Conference)" conference taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, from 17-20 July have announced a deadline extension. Deadline for early-bird registration is 10 April, and abstract submissions is 1 May. > Calendar

6. PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN)
i. The North American (NA) PAGES ECN Regional Representatives (RRs) are pleased to announce the 5th event in the "Show and Tell" series. Dr. Robin Dawson will present her work reconstructing environmental change from cave deposits in Madagascar. The event is scheduled for 19 April at 17:00 UTC. > Calendar 
ii. A new community-driven ECR project (and product of joint PAGES-INQUA early-career workshop) on synthesizing human-climate-environment interactions has been launched. The project is entitled "The whole is not the sum of the parts: building a synthesis database of past human-environmental systems in the Global South (pSESYNTH)" and aims to test a key hypothesis i.e. whether or not cultural ‘stress’ of ecosystems is widespread across the Global South during the Holocene. Visit the website for more information and to sign up.
iii. If you have any ideas for a webinar and want to organize it for PAGES ECN, please reach out to the webinar cluster.  
iv. To receive a more comprehensive list of ECN news and announcements, sign up to the mailing list

7. Supported and endorsed workshops, endorsed, affiliated and past working groups' news

PAGES is pleased to have an association with the following groups and has provided either financial support or endorsement for the workshops and conferences.
Find out more about PAGES' endorsed and affiliated groups
Apply for workshop or conference endorsement
See PAGES former working groups

i. Ice Core Young Scientists (ICYS)
The ICYS are proud to announce that the ICYS workshop will be held on 2 October in Crans-Montana, Switzerland as part of the IPICS conference. 100 ice core early scientists are welcome for this one day workshop to talk about scientist career, ice core science history, science popularisation and much more. Registration to the workshop is made during Abstract submission. Please note that the Abstract submission deadline is 30 April. > More information  

ii. International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS
The PAGES-supported 3rd IPICS Open Science Conference on "Ice Core Science at the three Poles" will be taking place from 2-7 October in Crans Montana, Switzerland. The deadline for abstract submission is 30 April. > Calendar

iii. LandCover6k 
a. A new paper by Mariani M et al. has been published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on "Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires". See point 8 for details. 

iv. Ocean Circulation and Carbon Cycling (OC3)
The recording for the OC3 webinar "Insights into deglacial AMOC changes - a summary of the PAGES OC3 stable isotope compilation data from the North Atlantic" with Janne Repschläger, which took place on 5 April, is now available to watch online under post-meeting material. > Calendar

8. Recent publications

i. C-SIDE
Published in Climate of the Past, Jones J et al. have a new paper entitled “Sea ice changes in the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean during the last 140 000 years”. The authors acknowledge that limited data on past sea ice coverage over the last 140 ka has hindered the link between sea ice expansion to oceanic processes that affect atmospheric CO2 concentration. The authors find, however, that “winter sea ice was absent over the core site during the early glacial period until MIS 4 (∼65 ka), suggesting that sea ice may not have been a major contributor to early glacial CO2 drawdown.” However, they also find that “sea ice expansion throughout the glacial–interglacial cycle appears to coincide with observed regional reductions in Antarctic Intermediate Water production and subduction, suggesting that sea ice may have influenced intermediate ocean circulation changes.” > Article 

ii. CVAS
Procyk R et al. have published on “The fractional energy balance equation for climate projections through 2100” in Earth system Dynamics where the authors “produce climate projections through the 21st century using the fractional energy balance equation (FEBE): a generalization of the standard energy balance equation (EBE). Using specific parameters, the authors made projections to 2100 using both the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios, and compared them to the corresponding CMIP5 and CMIP6 multi-model ensembles (MMEs). Overall, the FEBE projections were 10 %–15 % lower but due to their smaller uncertainties, their 90 % CIs lie completely within the GCM 90 % CIs. This agreement means that the FEBE validates the MME, and vice versa”. > Article 
 

ii. LandCover6k (former working group)
In “Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires” by Mariani M et al. published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the authors discuss how recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad-scale questions about how the cessation of Indigenous burning practices has impacted fuel accumulation and structure. They conclude that this paper “provides new evidence for widespread changes in vegetation structure following the cessation of Indigenous cultural burning that established the foundation for the current fire crisis.” > Article 

iii. PALSEA
a. Garrett E et al. have published “Drivers of 20th century sea-level change in southern New Zealand determined from proxy and instrumental records” in the Journal of Quaternary Science. The authors present new proxy-based sea-level reconstructions for southern New Zealand spanning the last millennium and conclude that the rapid sea-level rise during the mid-20th century along the coast of southern New Zealand was primarily driven by regional thermal expansion and ocean dynamics. > Article 
b.In their paper on "Last interglacial sea-level proxies in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere" published in Earth System Science Data, the authors "synthesize sea-level proxies for the LIG in the glaciated Northern Hemisphere for inclusion in the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS) database." They find that most of the proxies suggest a higher sea level during the LIG than at present, and more importantly, that many of the sites show evidence of regression due to sea-level fall (owing to glacial isostatic uplift). The authors contend that "in addition to documenting LIG sea-level sites in a large swath of the Northern Hemisphere, this compilation is highly relevant for reconstructing the size of MIS 6 ice sheets through GIA modelling." > Article  

iv. QUIGS
Published in Communications Earth & Environment, Menviel L et al. have published a paper entitled "Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods". The authors state that "During orbital precession minima, the Sahara was humid and more vegetated, providing potential corridors for Hominins migration. Uncertainties remain over the climatic processes controlling the initiation, demise and amplitude of these African Humid Periods. Here they study these processes "using a series of transient simulations of the penultimate deglaciation and Last Interglacial period, and compare the results with a transient simulation of the last deglaciation and Holocene." > Article 

9. Future Earth

i. Read the Future Earth March Newsletter

ii. Participate in a 2-minute Exchange for Future Earth Fundraising.  
The Future Earth Global Secretariat, led by the hub in Canada, is preparing fundraising pitches to research funders, sustainability philanthropy and corporations to support the work of the entire Future Earth community. Some ideas have come in but they need the entire community to add thoughts and vote, to ensure they are capturing as much diverse intelligence as possible from across the network. Please help by answering one question: What’s unique about Future Earth and its research networks that can enable transformations for sustainability at scale by 2030? The anonymous exchange will be open until 15 April. > Answer in the Thought Exchange platform.

iii.The National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa is pleased to announce it has been selected to host the Africa Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub. The NRF serves as the adherence body to the International Science Council (ISC), and is a founding member of the Belmont Forum. The African Open Science Platform (AOSP), hosted by the NRF, will be a prominent stakeholder in this global initiative. > More information 

iv. The 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2022) deadline for scholarships is 15 April. Early Bird Registration is Now Open until 30 April. > SRI2022 website  

v. Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) > Read the March Newsletter

10. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

i. WCRP Joint Scientific Committee nominations - Deadline 15 May 2022.
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is looking for nominations for its Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) for a four-year term starting 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2026. "The JSC provides scientific guidance for all aspects of the WCRP’s work, aligned with the overall aims and interests of its sponsoring organizations. The JSC is an inclusive source of leadership for international climate research and seeks nominations of excellent scientists with a proven track record from around the globe. Future Earth and WCRP work closely together as highlighted in the Joint Statement; therefore we highly recommend relevant nominations from Future Earth's community." > Submit (self-)nominations 

ii.The WCRP sea level conference will be taking place both on-site and online from 11-15 July in Singapore. The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status of climate-related sea-level research, and will have a strong focus on application of sea-level science for adaptation and stakeholder needs. The conference will consider the future of sea-level rise research within the new structure of WCRP, including the lighthouse activities and the new “Core Projects” focusing on "Regional Information for Society" and "Earth System Modelling and Observations".The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 15 April. > Calendar 

iii. WCRP is delighted to announce that the WCRP Open Science Conference (OSC) 2023 (#WCRP2023) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda from 23-27 October 2023, at the Kigali Convention Centre. > Calendar 

iv. CLIVAR - 2022 US AMOC Science Team Meeting
After 14 years of coordinated activities, the US AMOC Science Team will convene for a final time at the 2022 US AMOC Science Team Meeting from 25 - 28 April in Woods Hole, MA, USA, and online. > Calendar 

11. Other news and opportunities

i. IAL-IPA joint meeting, “Lakes as Memories of the Territory” will be taking place in Argentina from 27 November - 01 December 2022. Deadline for early registration and abstracts is 17 June. For more information on sessions, social program and scientific program download the second circular. > Calendar 

ii. The PAGES-supported EPD meeting will take place from 1-3 June, in Prague. Registration is free and the deadline is 1 May. The aim of the meeting is to maintain and foster the community of palaeoecologists using the EPD and Neotoma for data storage and analysis. Organizers would  like to bring together palynologists and researchers using different proxies that may be archived in Neotoma (macrofossils, sedaDNA, charcoal, geochemistry, isotopes). > Calendar ​​

iii. The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) invites those interested to participate in a Request for Information. The JOIDES Resolution Facility Board (JRFB) is issuing a request for information (RFI) to understand the international scientific community’s intent to propose to the 2050 Science Framework. Responses to the RFI will be considered by the JRFB in consultation with the other Facility Boards, funding agencies, and the IODP Forum, and they will inform planning on a potential future drilling program. You may submit more than one response. > More information 

iv. The PAGES-supported workshop “A synthesis of Cenozoic paleoceanographic proxies for seawater oxygenation” will take place on 3 September in Bergen, Norway, and is intended for those working on the development and calibration of seawater oxygen proxies. The workshop goal is to facilitate a conversation around, and generate a review of, Cenozoic paleoceanographic proxies for assessing seawater oxygen concentrations (qualitative and quantitative), with in-depth discussion of potential restrictions, issues, and specific regional applications. The meeting will initiate and/or develop the writing of a planned synthesis paper through a series of break-out sessions and will also involve time to discuss key global perspectives and the potential coordination for an application for a PAGES working group. Registration is open and closes on 1 May. Limited to 30 participants. > Calendar 

v. The PAGES-supported 53rd International Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: Low Oxygen environments in marine and coastal waters: Drivers, consequences and solutions, will be taking place at Liège University, Belgium, from 16-20 May. > Calendar 

vi. 54th Annual Meeting of AASP - The Palynological Society (AASP-TPS) was founded to promote the science of palynology for and on behalf of public interest. In 2022, the annual meeting of the AASP-TSP will be held in Colombia for the first time, and for the second time in South America. The meeting will celebrate the palynological diversity of the Neotropics and will have a hybrid format (in-person/online). Abstract submission deadline is 15 April and regular registration deadline is 1 August. > Calendar

vii. The EGU General Assembly 2022 will take place in Vienna, Austria, and online, from 23-27 May. The deadline for late on-site registration is 14 April. > Calendar 

viii. ICP14: 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography
Registration for all presenters is open until Wednesday 20 April. The organizers would like to inform everyone that if the number of virtual-only conference participants stays as low as it currently is, they may be forced to shift to an exclusively on-site event. If this is the case, the virtual registered participants will be offered the choice to switch to on-site participation or get a full refund. > Calendar  

ix. Summer School on Speleothem Science - Mini S4 applications are now open. The event will be taking place from 15-16 July in Innsbruck, Austria. The Mini S4 is a small-scale, in-person summer school particularly aimed at MCs and PhD students working in speleothem science.
Applications close on 10 April. > Calendar 

x. The PAGES-supported workshop “Climate Change and Carbon Cycle- Global Change from the Deep Past to the Anthropocene” will be taking place in Pisa from 22-24 June. The workshop aims to address processes and interactions linking carbon cycle and climate at different time scales, and their impact on the Earth System, from the deep past to future projections and reconstructed with different methodological and conceptual approaches. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 30 April. > Calendar 

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