PAGES - Past Global Changes

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The PAGES (Past Global Changes) project is an international effort to coordinate and promote past global change research. The primary objective is to improve our understanding of past changes in the Earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. ... more

PAGES, a registered association for scientific research and networking, is open and inclusive to all scientists interested in past global changes. In February 2017, PAGES' parent organization Future Earth published a statement affirming its commitment to supporting international collaboration and the free movement of scientists and flow of data, information and knowledge for global sustainability. PAGES fully supports the Future Earth statement.

PAGES is funded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences, and supported in-kind by the University of Bern, Switzerland. For administrative purposes, it is part of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR). PAGES is a Global Research Project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of WCRP.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:37

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

Highlights include updates from the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee meeting held in March, new "quick links" for PAGES working groups, working group news and meeting announcements, recent products, ECN updates, the call for Earth Commission nominations, and various funding opportunities.

PALSEA QSR special issue

Details: Published: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:31

The PAGES PALeo constraints on SEA level rise (PALSEA) working group special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews is now complete.

The primary aim of this special issue is to use the information contained in the geological record to improve the accuracy of sea-level projections for the coming centuries to millennia.

The 12 papers focus on documenting and synthesizing data on rates, sources, and budgets of sea-level variability during Quaternary/Pliocene warm periods, including the transition into and out of such periods, and assess the ability of models to simulate these observations.

New workshop reports in Eos

Details: Published: Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:13

eos 19 Two PAGES working groups recently published workshop reports in Eos.

Molly Patterson, Rachael Rhodes and Claire Allen reported on the Cycles of Sea Ice Dynamics in the Earth System (C-SIDE) working group meeting "Developing Data and Modeling Capacity to Understand Past Changes in Sea Ice in the Southern Ocean" held in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2018.

Access the C-SIDE workshop report "Understanding past changes in Southern Ocean sea ice" here.

Carole Adolf, Donna Hawthorne and Daniele Colombaroli reported on the Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2) meeting "Diverse knowledge systems for fire policy and biodiversity conservation" held in Egham, UK, in September 2018.

Access the GPWG2 workshop report "Ancient fires and indigenous knowledge inform fire policies" here.

Find out more about the two working groups by clicking on the links in brackets.

New Central, Eastern Europe SI

Details: Published: Monday, 08 April 2019 13:01

A new special issue stemming from a PAGES-supported meeting in Romania was recently published by Quaternary International.

Guest edited by Marcel Mindrescu, "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience: From Local to Continental Perspective" contains 19 articles which aim to bridge paleoclimatological and paleoenvironmental knowledge gaps in the region.

Read the editorial here.

Access the special issue here.

This special issue is a product of the "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium: From Local to Global" held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in May 2016.

Future Earth Earth Commission

Details: Published: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 09:50

PAGES' parent organization Future Earth has launched a call for nominations for the Earth Commission and encourages you to nominate leading scientists to take part in this important mission to achieve global sustainability.

The deadline for nominations is 23 April 2019.

Human activities are pushing the planet out of a safe operating space for humanity. Urgent action is needed to slow, and even stop, this change.

To tackle the challenge, Future Earth is convening the Earth Commission – a group of leading scientists who will define the conditions needed to maintain a stable planet, and synthesize science needed to set targets for the life support systems of Earth: land, biodiversity, freshwater, ocean.

The Commission will inform the work of a new Science Based Targets Network developing methodologies for companies and cities to set specific science-based targets.

2k Network data in Nature

Details: Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 17:24

A new article published in Nature shows that Arctic warming is associated with drying over the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

Authors, led by Cody Routson, compiled a large network of multi-proxy climate records extending back through the Holocene, and used the recent PAGES 2k paleotemperature dataset to bridge to the instrumental period.

The paleoclimate reconstructions agree with simulations by global climate models showing that Arctic warming is associated with reduced mid-latitude storms and rainfall.

This June, the authors will join the PAGES-endorsed CLIMATE-12k workshop, "How hot was the Holocene?" to combine the new proxy dataset with similar data from the Southern Hemisphere to develop a global perspective.

Access the paper, titled "Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene", here.

Access the Press Release about the paper from North Arizona University here.

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