Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the call for applications to join PAGES' Scientific Steering Committee, PAGES Early-Career Network updates and the first paper published in PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting's special issue of Climate of the Past.
A paper detailing the first high-resolution Lake Dojran pollen record for the last 12,500 years has been published today in Climate of the Past.
It is the first contribution to the "Global Challenges for our Common Future: a paleoscience perspective" special issue stemming from PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting in 2017.
Lake Dorjan is a transboundary lake located on the border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?
Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Thursday 19 April 2018 at 17:00 UTC.
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.
The next deadline for PAGES' workshop/meeting support applications is Thursday 19 April 2018 at 17:00 UTC.
Applicants must contact an SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to explain the meeting plan and how it is relevant to PAGES.
The meeting or workshop should be scheduled to take place at least six months after the application deadline (i.e. preferably from October 2018 onwards).
PAGES offers meeting support under three categories of workshops:
- PAGES' working group meetings
- Educational meetings
- Open call meetings
PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2019.
The deadline for consideration is Thursday 19 April 2018 at 17:00 UTC. Read further for details on what's involved in being an SSC member and how to apply.
The SSC is the body responsible for overseeing PAGES' activities. New members are sought to fill the places of outgoing members (see the SSC Member History List).
Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of three years, with the potential of renewing for an additional three-year term.
A fantastic announcement has been made today by the International Paleolimnology Association (IPA) regarding PAGES' former Scientific Steering Committee member and co-chair Sheri Fritz.
"Put your hands together for Prof. Sheri Fritz, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IPA! The award honors Dr. Fritz' career contributions to paleolimnology. She has accumulated a stellar record of achievement in the field of diatom taxonomy, biogeography, and paleo-environmental interpretation. Her work has had a wider impact across the fields of ecology, limnology, and paleoclimatology. She will receive the medal at the upcoming IPA meeting, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden next June. Congratulations to Sheri on this well-deserved award!"
Members of PAGES PALSEA2 working group recently published "MIS 5e relative sea-level changes in the Mediterranean Sea: Contribution of isostatic disequilibrium" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Paolo Stocchi et al. compare field data with numerical modeling to show that (i) glacio- and hydro-isostatic (GIA) adjustment is an important contributor to the spatial and temporal variability of the sea-level highstand during MIS 5e, (ii) the isostatic imbalance from the melting of the MIS 6 ice sheet can produce a >2.0 m sea-level highstand, and (iii) a two-step melting phase for the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets reduces the differences between observations and predictions.
