Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the PAGES IPO job announcement for a Science Officer, 4 October deadline for new working group proposals, PAGES' working group and ECN updates and meeting announcements, and news from Future Earth, WCRP and our endorsed and affiliated groups.
The International Relations Office at the University of Bern, Switzerland, has profiled the PAGES 2k Network Temperature Database and interviewed some of its contributors. Read their article here.
The Temperature Database paper was published in Scientific Data in 2017. Access the paper, with links to frequently asked questions, the international media coverage and the actual database, here.
Find out more about PAGES 2k Network and join their mailing list here.
A new paper from members of PAGES' C-PEAT working group was published in Nature Climate Change on Monday.
Led by Angela Gallego-Sala, "Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming" examines how the peatland carbon sink is likely to behave under future climate warming scenarios.
Access the paper here.
Find out more about C-PEAT and sign up to their mailing list here.
A new paper on relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period was published in Nature Geoscience yesterday.
Victor J. Polyak et al. found that their sea-level record does not support the hypothesis of rapid sea-level fluctuations within MIS-5e. Instead, they suggest that melting of the polar ice sheets occurred early in the interglacial period, followed by gradual ice-sheet growth.
This paper stems from a PAGES-supported workshop held in Majorca, Spain, in April 2012.
Access the paper here.
PAGES seeks a new Science Officer for our dedicated team at the International Project Office in Bern, Switzerland, to take over responsibilities for implementing and developing paleoscience activities, managing PAGES products, and networking within the international Global Change community.
Ideal start date: 1 December 2018.
Applications close: 30 September 2018.
Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?
Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a paleoscience question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Thursday 4 October 2018 at 17:00 UTC.
You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee by 20 September to discuss your plans before submission. Applications received without SSC notification will not be looked upon favorably.
Members of PAGES' Floods Working Group (FWG) recently published an invited review in the journal Water Security.
Bruno Wilhelm et al. review major methodological and technological advancements in the study of lake sediments with the aim to showcase new, robust and continuous paleoflood series. Methodological advancements of flood archives such as tree rings and speleothems are also addressed.
Recent developments in these fields have resulted in a growing paleoflood community that opens for cross-disciplinary analysis and synthesis of large data sets to meet the pressing scientific challenges in understanding changes in flood frequency and magnitude.
Access the paper here.
Learn more about FWG and sign up to its mailing list here.
