Meeting Products

A short report on Ocean Acidification workshop (Ocean acidification — modern observations and past experiences) at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA, 28-30 September 2006. This workshop was the centerpiece of the Fast-Track Initiative (FTI) on Ocean Acidification of the International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).

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Report on the first IGBP–SCOR FTI Workshop: "Ocean Acidification - modern observations and past experiences” at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from September 28 – 30, 2006.

Post-meeting report from the workshop "Climate Variability in the Greater Mekong River Basin: paleo proxies, instrumental data, historical records and model projections". Archaeologists have long puzzled over the collapse of the mighty medieval Khmer kingdom in Southeast Asia best known for its resplendent capital, Angkor. New findings suggest that a decades-long drought at about the time the kingdom began fading away in the 14th century may have been a major culprit.

A contribution from three early-career scientists who attended the 2nd PAGES YSM in February 2013 in Goa, India.

This report sets priorities and recommendations for future research on the effects of explosive volcanism on global and regional climate. It resulted from the "Workshop on Climatic Impact of Explosive Volcanism" held from 1-5 December 1993 in Tokyo, Japan. The workshop was sponsored by PAGES and INQUA.

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The workshop "Continental Drilling for Paleoclimate Records" held at the GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, June 30-July 2, 1995, was sponsored by PAGES and by the GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, in conjunction with the International Continental Drilling Programme (ICDP). The impetus for the meeting was the need for long continental paleoclimate records that will fill gaps left by the marine and ice-core records and provide information on time and spatial scales that are relevant to human activities. Further impetus came from a perceived need to balance the forecasts and reconstructions of climate models with information on actual behavior of the climate system on the continents.

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Workshop reports from the PEP III project: The Pole-Equator-Pole transect through Europe and Africa

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Contain reports from the PEP III workshops:

1. Coordinating paleoenvironmental research along the PEP III transect

Bierville (France), September 12-15, 1996

Sponsored by: PAGES), the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) project, the European Lake Drilling Program (ELDP), European Science Foundation (ESF), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientififique (CNRS), France, the US National Science Foundation (US NSF), the INQUA-PAGES Paleomonsoon project and MEDIAS-FRANCE

Organized by:MEDIAS-FRANCE, Groupe de Recherche Paléohydrologie, Paléoclimatologie 

2. Continental signals of Paleomonsoon dynamics in Africa: inter-hemispheric perspectives

Siwa (Egypt), January11-22, 1997 workshop under the patronage of Théodore Monod. 

Sponsored by: PAGES, the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), the Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa project (ACACIA)

This PAGES workshop report is derived from the first ARTS science workshop, held in Kauai, Hawaii from September 26–30, 1996. The goal of this initial meeting was to review the state of our knowledge of past climate variability in the tropics and to develop a science agenda for ARTS.

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Proceedings of the third PMIP (Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project) workshop held in the southern Laurentide Mountains, at the field station of the Université du Quebec à Montréal in Canada 4-8 October 1999.

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Past Global Changes (PAGES), a core projectof the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, is using several paleoclimate transects which will eventually comprise a global network of paleoclimatological sites. PEP-I—which this article discusses—is comprised of North and South America, PEP-II covers Australia and Asia, and PEP-III includes Africa and Europe.