Two weeks until OSM deadline

Details: Published: Monday, 06 February 2017 12:38

Two weeks until early registration for PAGES 5th Open Science Meeting closes! Register and pay before 20 February 2017 to save!

The 5th OSM will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, from 9-13 May 2017.

The registration price for the duration of the event increases from 350 Euros to 450 Euros after the February deadline. On-site registration costs 600 Euros. Discount rates are offered for students (with proof) - 200/260/340 Euros. Day passes are 200 Euros for everyone.

The OSM and associated Young Scientists Meeting (Morillo de Tou, Spain, 7-9 May) are the flagship events on PAGES scientific calendar and are held every four years.

All information for both events can be accessed here.

Statement from Future Earth

PAGES is open and inclusive to all scientists interested in past global changes.

PAGES' parent organization Future Earth recently wrote 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, which you can access here.

Tinner new PAGES co-chair

Details: Published: Wednesday, 01 February 2017 10:20

PAGES welcomes Willy Tinner as the new co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC).

Tinner is a Professor at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) and the Head of Paleoecology at the Institute of Plant Sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

He is a leading ecologist and environmental scientist, specializing in terrestrial paleoecology, with a focus on fire history and past climate-change impacts on vegetation and land use. Recently he became interested in using paleo-validated dynamic models to anticipate future vegetation changes, predominantly in the Mediterranean and Alp regions, and now leads several projects focusing on charcoal/fire and pollen/vegetation, studying the long-term interactions among climate, the biosphere and society.

His first term with PAGES began on 1 January this year.

“I’m most excited to be with PAGES,” Tinner said. “It’s a very good occasion to work for an organization of people interested in applying paleo records to get insights into the future. It reflects my way of doing science. In the past five to 10 years, I have moved to looking at the past to solve the future. That’s my main motivation. To focus on the past for the benefit of the present and future is most exciting.”

Abram and PAGES 2k in podcast

Details: Published: Wednesday, 01 February 2017 10:02

PAGES 2k coordinator Nerilie Abram was recently interviewed on Forecast, a podcast about climate science and climate scientists by Michael White, Nature's editor for climate science.

Abram, an associate professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, talks about her career, the PAGES 2k project (from 37mins 43secs) and the Nature paper she co-authored last year (from 44mins).

Access the podcast here.

2k/Euro-Med2k in Rev. Geophys

Details: Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:11

A new PAGES 2k Network/Euro-Med2k working group paper discussing the problems with large-scale, multiproxy temperature reconstructions was recently published in Reviews of Geophysics.

Authors Bo Christiansen and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist critically assess the many challenges, including the trade-off between using a larger number of proxy records with a weaker temperature signal and fewer proxy records with a stronger temperature signal, and how the different sources of noise and the complicated covariance structure of the temperature field limit reconstruction skills.

The focus is on single-index reconstructions but some of the observations are also relevant for field reconstructions.

Ljungqvist hopes the paper will illuminate some of the problems related to making large-scale temperature reconstructions from proxy data.

Access the paper here.

Learn more about the 2k Network here.

Apply to be an SSC member

Details: Published: Thursday, 26 January 2017 09:44

PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2018.

Three positions will be filled. The deadline for consideration is 3 April 2017. Read further for details on what's involved in being an SSC member and how to apply.