PAGES Newsletter January 2024

In the first newsletter of 2024, PAGES would like to wish everyone a peaceful and positive start to the new year. We are also thrilled to announce a new explanatory video showcasing what PAGES is about in a nutshell. If you happen to be attending the EGU24 this year, PAGES will also be hosting a Q&A session for anyone who would like to find out more about the PAGES project, or have specific questions about applying for workshop/meeting funding, upcoming events, such as as the Open Science Meeting and Young Scientists Meeting in Shanghai in 2025, or any other questions about PAGES and its activities. Both the PAGES Executive Director and Science Officer look forward to seeing/ meeting you there.

1. Happy New Year
2. New “About PAGES” video
3. PAGES Q&A session at EGU24
4. Order a hard copy of PAGES Magazine: (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami science
5. PAGES' 7th Open Science Meeting (OSM): Call for sessions open 
6. Next deadline for new working groups and workshop/meeting support
7. PAGES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) applications deadline
8. Working group news
9. PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN)
10. Supported and endorsed workshops, endorsed, affiliated and past working groups' news
11. Future Earth
12. Other news and opportunities

1. Happy New Year

The PAGES IPO would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and positive start to 2024.

2. New “About PAGES” video

The PAGES IPO is thrilled to announce that a new video explaining the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project is available to watch. We hope that you enjoy the video and share it with your network. > Watch on YouTube  

3. PAGES Q&A session at EGU24

a. The EGU24 will be taking place from 14–19 April 2024 in Vienna, Austria. PAGES Executive Director, Marie-France Loutre, and PAGES Science Officer, Iván Hernández-Almeida, will be attending the conference and invite all those interested in past global changes to attend a PAGES Q&A splinter meeting session. Participants are welcome to come and ask questions, be it about PAGES activities, how to organize one, how to attend one, or about any upcoming special events, such as the Open Science Meeting (OSM) and/ or Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) in Shanghai in 2025, or topical science meetings (TSM) . All questions about PAGES are welcome. We hope to make you more familiar with PAGES and look forward to meeting new people, and seeing “old” friends. The meeting will take place in Room 2.43 on Wednesday, 17 April 2024, from 16:15–18:00 local time. If you have any questions about this meeting, please feel free to email us: pages@pages.unibe.ch 
b. There will be a number of PAGES sponsored, endorsed and working group sessions taking place, including CVAS on "Climate Variability Across Scales", Floods WG on "Flood trends in cultural riverine landscapes. Reconstruction and simulation of temporal and spatial patterns of past floods, atmospheric variability and human action", SISAL on "Speleothem and karst records - Reconstructing terrestrial climatic and environmental change", QUIGS on "Glacial/Interglacial variability over the last 1.5 Myr", and VICS on "Volcano-climate impacts and the stratospheric aerosol layer". > Calendar

4. Order a hard copy of PAGES Magazine: (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami Science 

The next PAGES Magazine will be tackling the topic of (Paleo)-Earthquakes and -Tsunamis. Earthquakes can generate mass movements and deformation on the Earth's surface, and in some cases they also generate tsunamis in aquatic systems. The traces associated with these events are diverse and can be found in multiple environments. Understanding the formation mechanisms of past seismic events, and reconstructing magnitude and frequency of these events, are important for assessing future hazards, and helps to identify highly vulnerable regions.
The next Special Issue of the PAGES Magazine coming out in Northern Hemisphere Spring 2024 will include articles combining multiple approaches to identify (Paleo)-Earthquake and -Tsunami records, precisely dating these events, and assessing the impact on the environment, and/or human societies. If you are interested in receiving a hard copy of this issue guest edited by Katrina Kremer, Michael Strupler, Katleen Wils, Renaldo Gastineau, Tatiana Izquierdo and Iván Hernández-Almeida, please be sure to complete the online webform by 22 April 2024. Please note that this is the only way to ensure you receive a hard copy of the magazine. > Order a free hard copy 

5. PAGES' 7th Open Science Meeting (OSM): Call for sessions open

The PAGES' 7th OSM will be taking place from 21–24 May 2025 in Shanghai, China, and online. The Call for Sessions is open and the deadline to submit session proposals is 15 May 2024. > More information 

6. Next deadline for new working groups and workshop/meeting support

The deadline for new working groups, working groups wishing to apply for a next phase, meeting and/or workshop support, and Data Stewardship Scholarships (DSS) is 4 March 2024. The DSS applications are only open to PAGES working groups. Please remember to contact an SSC member at least two weeks prior to submission of applications. We also remind those wishing to apply for workshop support that applications should be received at least six months prior to the event to enable more wide spread promotion of the workshop/event. The next deadline for applications will be in Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024. > More information

7. PAGES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) applications deadline

PAGES holds an annual call for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of three years, with the potential of renewal for an additional term. The next deadline for applications will be on 11 March 2024. The SSC represents a broad spectrum of disciplines and nationalities, and includes scientists at different career stages. > More information     

8. Working group news

i. Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS)

A joint meeting on "Climate and Migration: Historical and Present Perspectives" by the Department of Geography (Faculty of Science, Masaryk University) and CRIAS will be taking place in Brno, Czech Republic, from 3–4 June 2024. The meeting aims to "initiate new research activities on mobility and climate, share viewpoints and experience, support new international collaborations among researchers, and define research goals. In addition, the meeting will plan the working group’s next activities and publications". The deadline for abstracts is 18 February 2024. > Calendar  

ii. Human Traces 

The next webinar in the Human Traces webinar series will take place on 22 February 2024 with Prof. Antony Brown (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø University Museum) on “From Lakes to Soils: Using SedaDNA to Track the Human Past”. > Calendar 

iii. Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis (SISAL) 

The Goldschmidt Conference, “the foremost annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry” will be taking place from 18–23 August 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. SISAL members encourage abstract submissions to the session ID #6194/ Theme 13f on “Reconstruction of climate and environmental changes in terrestrial archives from geochemical tracers". Abstract submissions are now open and will close on 29 March 2024. > Calendar   

9. PAGES Early-Career Network (ECN) 

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10. 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. VARVES WG 

The next online seminar series starts on Thursday, 18 January 2024. Dr. Chris Halstead will be giving a talk entitled “The new North America Varve Chronology: History, calibration, and chronological applications”. The seminar will be on MS Teams at 15:00 GMT/UTC, and the link will be sent a few days in advance. If you would like to join, please email Celia Martin-Puertas: Celia.MartinPuertas@rhul.ac.uk.

ii. Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) 

The PMIP-carbon team is organizing a 1-day hybrid workshop planned back-to-back with EGU. “The CMIP7 phase will be starting soon and there seems to be a window of opportunity for protocol papers next year. In order to extend activities associated with the multimodel comparison of coupled climate-carbon simulations during the last glacial cycle, we would like to write a GMD-type protocol paper focusing on key questions and guidelines specific to the carbon cycle. A few potential recommendations have been mentioned in Lhardy et al. Paleoceanography, 2021, and Bouttes et al. PAGES, 2021, but we think a larger community consultation is needed in order to: (1) define key scientific questions and experiments to be prioritized during the CMIP7/PMIP5 phase; (2) assess feasibility of various simulations; discuss challenges, barriers and facilitators, in view of reaching the best compromise between a shared experimental design and maximum inclusiveness for models of various complexity; (3) establish a long-term strategy to extend the PMIP-carbon project to target various periods and the role of different ESMs components (e.g. permafrost, sediments, river inputs, etc.). If you are interested in participating in this event (either in-person or online), please contact Fanny Lahrdy: fanny.lhardy@mpimet.mpg.de from the PMIP-carbon team to fill in your name and info in the table".  

11. Future Earth  

i. Read the December newsletter 

ii. Tipping points discussion series

This online series, convened by AIMES, Future Earth, Earth Commission and WCRP "aims to advance the knowledge about tipping points, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping points in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Point Modelling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP)." The next event will take place on 29 January 2024 on "Early Warning Signals" and will be moderated by Joshua Buxton and/or Chis Boulton from Exeter University. Presentations include "Climate Tipping Points: Theory, empirical evidence, uncertainties" with Niklas Boers (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) and  "The spatial signatures of dryland ecosystems resilience" by Sonia Kéfi (University of Montpellier). > Register 

iii. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Calls

There has been an extension to the deadline for the Second external review of the IPBES nexus assessment which is now closing Sunday, 21 January 2024. The additional Government review of the summary for policymakers of the nexus assessment will be open from 13 May to 2 June 2024 (3 weeks). Further information will be shared in due course. > More information 

12. Other news & opportunities

i. Mountain Research Initiative 
> Newsletter December 2023

ii. ESO - European School on Ostracoda

The PAGES-supported European School on Ostracoda (ESO) is organising a five-day course from 18–22 March 2024 in Patras, Greece. The course is designed to offer a comprehensive understanding of ostracod taxonomy, (paleo)ecology, biodiversity, geological history, and applied biostratigraphy. It is specifically aimed at young scientists and industrial professionals engaged in micropaleontology, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, biology, and environmental applications. Registration is now open. > Details 

iii. Pal(a)eoPERCS webinar series

Specifically designed to showcase the research of early-career researchers in paleontology, ecology, oceanography, climate, etc., Pal(a)eoPERCS (Pal(a)eo EaRly Career Seminar) is a virtual seminar series which is live streamed, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session. The next seminar will be taking place on 30 January 2024 with Alejandro Izquierdo López (University of Toronto) (Tbc). > Calendar 

iv. Ice Core Analysis Techniques (ICAT) PhD school-2024

The ICAT PhD school will be taking place from 23–27 September 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice-core analysis, or are users of ice-core data (glaciologists, oceanographers, climate modelers, earth scientists). ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice-core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects. Registration is now open. > Calendar  

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