CLIVAR is seeking nominations or self-nominations for new members to serve in all CLIVAR panels from January 2015.
New members will play a key role in driving CLIVAR’s scientific agenda over the next decade.
Deadline 31st March. For more information and the nomination form visit CLIVAR's website.
The European Geosciences Union has announced that PAGES SSC member, Sherilyn Fritz, will receive the 2014 Hans Oeschger Medal in recognition of her outstanding contribution in reconstructing and understanding past periods of drought in North America, past hydrological changes in tropical and mid-latitude regions from lake sediments, and for her thorough approach to deciphering natural climate impact from human-induced landscape changes.
Sheri will give a lecture and accept the award at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2014 in Vienna from 27 Apr - 2 May.
A recent Climate of the Past paper by Gavin Schmidt et al. uses the CMIP5 & PMIP3 model outputs from both past and future simulations to explore the connections between model skill and model predictions, and has the potential to greatly improve assessments of future climate change.
GEOTRACES, an international programme aiming to increase understanding of biogeochemical cycles and the large-scale distribution of trace elements and their isotopes in the marine environment, will release its first public data product at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 25th February 2014.
This intermediate data product will feature a public on-line database and a set of visual components (on-line interactive maps and 3D animations of GEOTRACES sections).
Read more: http://www.geotraces.org
The new ten-year research initiative, Future Earth, is seeking nominations for its inaugural Engagement Committee.
This committee will enable high-level engagement with Future Earth's stakeholders including policy-makers, business and civil society and provide leadership and creative thinking on how to bridge the gap between knowledge and solutions for sustainable development.
Deadline for applications 14 March 2014. Read more.
Published articles are now appearing in the Climate of the Past special issue emerging from the PAGES 2nd Young Scientists Meeting.
All of the first authors are early-career researchers who attended our 2nd YSM held in Goa, India in February 2013.
View the published papers and those in the pipeline.
"Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology" in the Journal of Ecology.
This article presents the results of a two-day PAGES sponsored workshop held at Oxford University in December 2012 in which individuals were asked to identify their top priority questions in various branches of palaeoecological science through an open application and online voting process.
