About PAGES
PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research which aims to understand the Earth’s past environment in order to obtain better predictions of future climate and environment, and inform strategies for sustainability. We encourage international and interdisciplinary collaborations and seek to promote the involvement of scientists from developing countries in the global paleo-community discourse.
PAGES' scope of interest includes the physical climate system, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem processes, biodiversity, and human dimensions, on different time scales - from the Pliocene to the recent past.
Over 5000 scientists from more than 125 countries currently subscribe to PAGES. We encourage all interested scientists to get involved and contribute to our initiatives, participate in the workshops we support, and publish PAGES-relevant products. PAGES also organizes travel stipends for Guest Scientists.
Our science structure addresses key components of the Earth system: in particular, phenomena and processes that link the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, land surface, biosphere and society.
PAGES itself is not a research institution. Research activities are not prescribed by PAGES committees nor by the International Project Office (IPO). Rather, we maintain the required flexibility in our budget and structure to respond to 'bottom-up' initiatives that arise from the community.
The agreed-upon PAGES' vision is implemented primarily through community-devised working groups. In addition, integrative activities bring together working group members and researchers from the broader environment to collaborate on specific issues.
Supporters and Partners
Founded in 1991, PAGES was funded by the US and Swiss National Science Foundations until 2016. From 2017-2018, it was funded by the US National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Sciences. From 2019, it is funded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences. It is supported in-kind by the University of Bern, Switzerland.
PAGES is a Global Research Network of the global sustainability science program Future Earth, and was previously a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) until its closure at the end of 2015. PAGES also has a scientific partnership with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), WDS-Paleo, and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Read more ...
Stakeholders
PAGES aims to engage relevant stakeholders in its activities at a number of levels. Increasing stakeholder engagement is a critical goal of our parent organization, Future Earth, as it works to ensure knowledge is generated in partnership with society and the users of science. Read more ...
Organizational structure
PAGES is overseen by a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) comprised of members chosen to be representative of the major techniques, disciplines and geographic regions that contribute to paleoscience.
Under the direction of the SSC, the staff at the small International Project Office (IPO) in Bern, Switzerland, carry out the day-to-day running of the PAGES program. Read more ...
Be involved
There are many ways you can learn more and be involved!
Create a profile in our People Database and subscribe to receive free copies of PAGES Magazines and other updates.
Subscribe to the mailing list of any of our working groups to receive updates on the group's activities. The mailing list links are on their webpages.
Read the Be involved webpage for other opportunities to be active in the PAGES community.