PAGES is pleased to be included in the Future Earth 2017 year in review.
Products from the 2k Network and VICS working groups were chosen as highlights.
Revisit some favorite stories and announcements to appear on the Future Earth website over the past 12 months in this interactive presentation.
The PAGES Hydro2k Consortium has published its findings of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era in Climate of the Past today.
The consortium, led by Jason Smerdon, reviews the principal proxy data available for hydroclimatic reconstructions over the CE and highlights the contemporary understanding of how these proxies are interpreted as hydroclimate indicators. It also reviews the available last-millennium simulations from fully coupled climate models and discusses several outstanding challenges associated with simulating hydroclimate variability and change over the CE.
Members of the Aquatic Transitions working group have published a paper on first human impacts and responses of aquatic systems in The Anthropocene Review.
The authors review the timing and onset of human disturbance in and around inland water ecosystems as revealed through sedimentary archives from around the world. Paleolimnology provides access to a wealth of information reflecting early human activities and their corresponding aquatic ecological shifts.
Access the paper here.
The European Commission is calling for high-profile scientists to join its High Level Group of Scientific Advisors of the Scientific Advice Mechanism. The European Scientific and Research Community is invited to submit names of competent candidates.
Send PAGES Executive Director Marie-France Loutre suggestions/nominations via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 10 January 2018, in time for the 15 January deadline. The person being nominated needs to agree with the nomination and provide their full dossier.
Please read and follow the call instructions and criteria here.
Future Earth has offered to provide applicants with a support letter if they wish to emphasize their involvement in global dialogue for sustainability. Let Marie-France know if this letter is required.
PAGES' PALSEA2 working group leader Andrea Dutton continues to make a splash with her science.
The geologist from the University of Florida, USA, was recently named one of Rolling Stones Magazine’s "25 People Shaping the Future in Tech, Science, Medicine, Activism and More." Read the article here.
Plus, listen to her extended interview with Nature editor for climate science Michael White, where she discusses, among many things, using corals to reconstruct past sea level.
White has interviewed three other PAGES scientists on his popular "Forecast" podcast. You can find them here.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Five new papers have been accepted to the PAGES 2k Network phase two synthesis Climate of the Past special issue.
Barbara Stenni et al. "Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years" here.
Jasper Franke et al. "Reconstructing Late Holocene North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes using functional paleoclimate networks" here.
Simon Pendleton et al. "Episodic Neoglacial expansion and rapid 20th century retreat of a small ice cap on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, and modeled temperature change" here.
Elizabeth Thomas et al. "Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years" here.
Bronwyn Dixon et al. "Low-resolution Australasian palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years" here.
Access the entire special issue, titled "Climate of the past 2000 years: global and regional syntheses" here.
