Propose a new working group

Details: Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 10:30

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

Propose a new PAGES' working group by 10 October 2016 to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way.

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

YSM deadlines 1 October

Details: Published: Tuesday, 06 September 2016 18:03

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.

An early start to climate change

Details: Published: Wednesday, 24 August 2016 19:19

Around 1830, just decades after the start of the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide added in small but increasing amounts started to change the chemistry of the atmosphere. Not long after, the planet’s oceans started to warm up, kicking off a trend that continues today.

That’s the message of a new study authored by the PAGES 2k Network published in Nature. Drawing on a roughly 500-year history of temperatures in the oceans and on land, the group concluded that the warming of the planet may have started early in the 1800s – and much earlier than typical climate change graphs depict. The results show that even small amounts of carbon dioxide may be able to shift how fast the planet is warming, with both positive and negative repercussions.

Access the Nature paper here.

Read more about this PAGES 2k Network contribution, including the PAGES' press release and FAQs, here.

Read a complementary article in The Conversation by 2k members Helen McGregor, Joelle Gergis, Nerilie Abram and Steven Phipps here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:29

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

Workshop report from GPWG

Details: Published: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 13:03

A workshop report from the Global Paleofire working group (GPWG) has recently been published in BAMS.

Written by Stijn Hantson et al., "Fire in the Earth System - bridging data and modelling research" is the outcome of the GPWG meeting held in Massachusetts, USA, late last year.

Access the workshop report here.

Read more about, and be involved with the new incarnation, GPWG2 here.

New Global Paleofire paper

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 July 2016 17:14

biogeosc june 16 A recent paper from PAGES' Global Paleofire Working Group, which discusses methodological issues relevant to data–model comparisons and identifies areas for future research, has been published in Biogeosciences.

Jennifer Marlon et al. present new 1000-year and 22 000-year trends and gridded biomass burning reconstructions based on the Global Charcoal Database version 3 (GCDv3), which includes 736 charcoal records (57 more than in version 2).

This research and paper was initiated during a workshop held in France in October 2013.

Access the article, titled "Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons", here.

Find out more about the current paleofire group here.