One of PAGES' sister projects, the Global Land Project, is seeking a host for its International Project Office (IPO) from 2016.
The ideal institute will have an international reputation for cutting-edge sustainability research with a focus on human-environment interactions.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 25 October 2014.
The Varves Working Group (VWG) is now welcoming contributions to its online Varve Image Portal, which summarizes existing varve images around the world.
The portal includes examples of seasonal sedimentary successions, specific sediment components, and structures of varved sediments. Different varve types from all continents are visualised by macroscopic, microscopic, and X-radiographic images with corresponding metadata.
Members of the C-PEAT working group have published a special issue in The Holocene on peatland carbon dynamics in the circum-Arctic region during the Holocene.
The articles provide a regional syntheses of major peatland regions, case studies at individual sites, novel approaches to investigating peatland carbon dynamics, and address important peatland processes. Some of this work emerged from a PAGES-supported meeting in Pennsylvania in 2013.
The US National Science Foundation has confirmed it will support PAGES' activities until mid-2018. And the Swiss NSF, until the end of 2015 with an invitation to re-submit a proposal under Future Earth.
We thank the NSFs for their vote of confidence that means we can continue to deliver good things for the paleo-community over the next few years.
In a recent Global Environmental Change paper, members of PAGES' Regional Integration Theme use paleoecological data to propose a framework that integrates social wellbeing and environmental boundaries to define safe and just operating spaces at the regional scale.
This approach provides clear visual images for making comparisons between different regions, and can provide a practical basis for policy makers to raise the standards of social conditions in a region while reducing the likelihood of crossing ecological boundaries.
The EarthCube initiative is now transitioning into a new and important phase that will require active input from geoscience researchers.
Volunteers are sought to serve on a number of committees and teams from October 2014 to September 2015.
The Arctic2k working group have just published an Arctic proxy temperature database for the past 2,000 years.
This is an extended and revised version of the database used to reconstruct Arctic temperatures in the 2k Consortium study in Nature Geoscience in 2013.
