IGBP's Ocean Acidification Summary for Policymakers 2013 has just been released, reporting on the state of scientific knowledge on ocean acidification. It's based on the latest research presented at The Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held in Monterey, California, in September 2012, and will be presented at the COP19 ocean acidification side event in Warsaw on Mon 18 Nov 2013.
Read more here.
Abstract submission for the 4th iLEAPS Science Conference: Terrestrial ecosystems, atmosphere, and people in the Earth system, (12 - 16th May 2014 in Nanjing, China) is now open.
Sessions 1, 3, 4, 6 and 12 have scope for paleo contributions. See the session list for more information.
Abstract submission deadline 31 January 2014. Find out how to apply here.
Abstracts are due 20 October for the PAGES supported, Focus 4 workshop “Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past” (in Leuven, Belgium from the 3-7 February 2014).
This will be a forum where scientists from both environmental sciences and humanities can meet and share their data and ideas on how to quantify past human-environment interactions.
More information here.
The Sea Ice Proxies (SIP) Working Group has just published a special issue in Quaternary Science Reviews - Sea Ice in the Paleoclimate System: the Challenge of Reconstructing Sea Ice from Proxies.
This volume, an outcome of SIP's first workshop in Montreal in March 2012, addresses various sea ice proxies and their application to large scale sea ice reconstruction.
The International Marine Past Global Change Study is lining up to enter a new phase: IMAGES-2.
The revised concept is described in their new science plan.
PAGES news vol. 21 (2):
El Niño-Southern Oscillation 
Our 20th anniversary edition explores the elusive El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It also includes a mini section on data assimilation methods and a series of reports on the 2013 2nd Young Scientists Meeting held in Goa, India.
The PAGES office in Bern is busier than usual this Summer with two guest scientists, Gisela Winckler and Bernd Zolitschka, joining us on short sabbaticals from their institutions.
