Historical geographer in Bern

Details: Published: Tuesday, 18 October 2016 12:12

small asluyter photo PAGES is pleased to host guest scientist Andrew Sluyter, from the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, at the IPO in Bern for the next two months.

Sluyter's main project while in Switzerland is to advance work on his contributions to the LandCover6k working group, especially the empirical map of land use in Middle America, and related research on the historical use of rangeland burning in the Neotropics.

While in Europe, he will also collaborate with the Anthropogenic Land Cover Change modelers involved in LandCover6k - Jed Kaplan at l'Université de Lausanne and Kees Klein Goldewijk at Universiteit Utrecht - as well as our other current guest scientist, Erle Ellis.

His other roles include Executive Director of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Historical Geography.

UPDATE: Sluyter's seminar on land-use reconstruction and landscape transformations at the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, which was scheduled for 23 November, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Natural Assets KAN webinar

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:39

Future Earth invites you to a webinar on the development of the Natural Assets Knowledge-Action Network (KAN) on Monday 17 October 2016. It will be held at two different times to accommodate time zones.

Time 1: 6h00 am UTC / Hosted by the Paris-Hub (Hannah Moersberger and Edouard Michel) and chaired by Engagement Committee member, Prof Tim Payn; To join the conversation for this time zone, go to: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/569452285

Time 2: 12h00 pm UTC / Hosted by the Montreal-Hub (Anne-Hélène Prieur Richard, Alyson Surveyer and Jean-Patrick Toussaint) and chaired by Science Committee member, Prof Sandra Diaz; To join the conversation for this time zone, go to: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/679460733

The Natural Assets KAN aims to mobilize a community of researchers and practitioners interested in achieving a scientifically-based, sustainable and fair stewardship of terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets underpinning human wellbeing.

Arctic Holocene in QSR

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 15:49

The PAGES-endorsed Arctic Holocene Transitions (AHT) project recently published a linked series of three major review papers in a special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews.

These papers provide major regional summaries of Holocene climate history across the western Arctic, building on an extensive compilation of previously published proxy climate records (Sundqvist et al. 2014). They compare the Arctic Holocene dataset with other available paleoenvironmental evidence to reconstruct spatial-temporal patterns of temperature change and to quantify the most prominent trends represented by a large variety of palaeo-evidence from terrestrial and marine sites north of 58°N.

The papers focus on eastern Beringia (northwestern North America; Kaufman et al. 2016), Arctic Canada and Greenland (northeastern North America, Briner et al. 2016) and the North Atlantic - Fennoscandia region (Sejrup et al. 2016).

IPICS report in Eos

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 October 2016 13:22

A workshop report from the PAGES-supported IPICS 2016 Open Science Conference was published yesterday in Eos.

"Developments in Ice Core Research on Past Climate Change" discusses the continuing quest to find a million-year-old ice core in the Antarctic ice sheet. Conference participants presented promising locations and new drilling technologies.

Access the workshop report here.

Read more about IPICS and ICYS - two groups endorsed by PAGES.

Two deadlines 10 October

Details: Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2016 16:27

mtg support img A reminder that 1) new PAGES working group proposals and 2) applications for workshop/meeting financial support are both due 10 October.

By now, you should have contacted an SSC member to advise them of your plans. Submissions without an SSC liaison will not be looked upon favorably.

The next call for proposals will be in March 2017.

Details about new working group proposals are here.

Details about workshop/meeting support applications are here.

2k Network paper out today

Details: Published: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 11:58

A new PAGES 2k Network paper has been published in Nature Climate Change today.

Written by Julie Jones et al., "Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate" focuses on this highly complex and critically important component of the global climate system, which remains poorly understood. The consortium analyses recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region, and their trends in the context of paleoclimate records and climate model simulations.

The paper is a product of the PAGES-supported Antarctica and Southern Ocean workshop held in California in 2015.

Access the paper here.

A supporting article by Nerilie Abram et al. was also published in The Conversation. Access the article here.

YSM deadlines 1 October

Details: Published: Monday, 26 September 2016 14:55

A reminder that applications, abstract submissions and financial support requests for PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting are all due 1 October 2016.

We encourage all paleo ECRs to be involved in PAGES' flagship event, from 7-9 May 2017, in Morillo de Tou, Spain. The selection process is competitive. All details about the meeting and applications can be found here.

The YSM precedes PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting in Zaragoza, Spain, from 9-13 May 2017. Find out more about the OSM here.

If you are experiencing difficulties with the official OSM and YSM website, directly access the application forms here.