Guest scientist at PAGES IPO

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Published: Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:44

PAGES International Project Office is pleased to welcome guest scientist Professor Giri Kattel to the Bern office for the next two weeks.

Kattel is in Switzerland to continue work on various Aquatic Transitions working group projects and meet with local scientists in his field. He aims to finish the first draft of an upcoming paper on the ecological resilience of South East Asian lakes, from a paleoscience perspective, during his stay.

Currently a Visiting Professor under the CAS-PIFI program in Nanjing, China, Kattel is working on paleolimnology, resilience and climate change in upland and lowland lakes and floodplain systems in China. He will return to The University of Melbourne, Australia, in January 2018.

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YSM participants in Eos

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Published: Monday, 09 October 2017 17:19

A report from PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting (Morillo de Tou, Spain, 7-9 May 2017) was published in Earth & Space Science News (EoS) today.

YSM participants Vachel Carter, Liv Heinecke and S. Yoshi Maezumi discuss the meeting highlights, plus how the experience helped prepare the 80-strong group for the following Open Science Meeting (OSM) in Zaragoza.

Access the article here.

Propose a new working group

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Published: Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:30

Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?

Propose a new PAGES' working group by 23 October 2017 to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee to discuss your plans at least two weeks before you submit the proposal.​ Applications received without SSC member notification will not be looked upon favorably.

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Financial support for meetings

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Published: Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:21

The next round of PAGES workshop/meeting support applications is only open to current PAGES working groups. The deadline is 23 October 2017. Access the proposal form here.

Applicants must contact their SSC liaison at least two weeks before the deadline to explain the meeting plan.

The meeting or workshop should be scheduled to take place, preferably, at least six months after the application deadline (i.e. from April 2018 onwards).

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New LandCover6k products

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Published: Monday, 25 September 2017 11:40

Two journal articles have recently been published by members of the LandCover6k working group.

"Relative pollen productivity estimates for major plant taxa of cultural landscapes in central eastern China", by Li Furong et al. in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, estimate relative pollen productivity for plant taxa characteristic of human-induced vegetation in ancient cultural landscapes of the low mountain ranges of Shandong province in eastern temperate China. Access it here.

Laurent Marquer et al., in their Quaternary Science Reviews paper "Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe", present a novel approach that combines pollen-based REVEALS estimates of plant cover with climate, anthropogenic land-cover and dynamic vegetation modeling results. This is used to quantify the relative impacts of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in northern and western Europe north of the Alps. Access it here.

Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:31

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

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