PAGES - Past Global Changes

Welcome to PAGES

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 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 US National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Sciences, and supported in-kind by the University of Bern, Switzerland. It is a Global Research Project of Future Earth and a scientific partner of WCRP.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:45

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

Highlights include the call for Expressions of Interest to host PAGES 2021 Open Science and Young Scientists meetings, the call for nominations for our Scientific Steering Committee, new working group and workshop financial support deadlines, ECN updates, recent products, IPCC updates and PAGES at the EGU General Assembly 2019 and INQUA Congress 2019.

SISAL database assessment

Details: Published: Monday, 10 December 2018 17:43

Members of PAGES SISAL working group have a new paper in Quaternary which reviews published Western Europe speleothem records in light of the recent publication of the SISAL database.

Franziska Lechleitner et al. investigate how representative the spatial and temporal distribution of the available records is for climate in Western Europe and review potential sites and strategies for future studies.

Access the paper "The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: A Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database" here.

Access the SISAL database and published paper here.

Find out more about SISAL and sign up to the mailing list here.

Host PAGES 2021 OSM & YSM

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 December 2018 12:32

Held every four years, PAGES’ Open Science Meeting (OSM) and Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) provide an invaluable opportunity to bring the past global change community together from around the world to share, discuss, learn, and plan for the future.

Would you and your institution like to be an integral part of these premier events in the international paleoscience calendar? The call is now open to host the next meetings in 2021, preferably in the first half of the year.

The bidding process will take place in two stages with Expressions of Interest due 28 February 2019. PAGES' Scientific Steering Committee will then invite a shortlist of selected potential hosts to submit a full bid by early September 2019.

Learn more about our past OSMs and YSMs and watch a short summary video from the successful 2017 events, held in Spain, on PAGES' YouTube Channel.

Innovative online meetings

Details: Published: Monday, 03 December 2018 16:50

The Iso2k project of the PAGES 2k Network has set a new benchmark in how to conduct a successful online meeting.

Group leader Bronwen Konecky has organized four mini-retreats, focusing on writing and data clean-up.

"Both the science and the technicality/practicality are going well," said Konecky. "In fact, we were far more productive (in the first session) than I had anticipated.

"No one was jet lagged, everyone could eat whatever type of food they like, people brought their own coffee/tea/beer/wine etc, and all of that makes for a successful meeting."

ECN work-life balance

Details: Published: Monday, 03 December 2018 16:27

A new contribution to the PAGES Early-Career Network blog "The Early Pages" will get you thinking!

Maintaining a healthy and fulfilling work-life balance in academia can be hard, and many scientists might need some help to achieve it. The Early Pages asked three researchers to share their advice on how they keep up with their private life while being productive and busy in academia.

Read about what Tomi, Maya and Elizabeth think, plus contribute your own experiences in the article comments.

Latest PAGES Magazine

Details: Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2018 17:00

Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 26 (2)

The latest issue of Past Global Changes Magazine, titled "Building and Harnessing Open Paleodata" is now available to read and download.

Guest edited by John W. Williams, Alicia J. Newton and Darrell S. Kaufman, this issue showcases the ongoing growth of a rich variety of openly available, globally distributed paleodata. It highlights new scientific, software, funding, and outreach initiatives that harness these open-data resources.

Open-data systems are fueling new scientific frontiers, empowering early-career scientists, and enabling the intelligent reuse of data, while encouraging the stewardship of valued data assets. The ultimate goal is to power the next generation of scientists and scientific discovery with an open architecture of scientific data as complex, deep, and interlinked as the Earth system itself.