Limited travel support (priority for early career researchers) is available for a PAGES co-sponsored workshop on "Assessing the History of the Greenland Ice Sheet through Ocean Drilling" scheduled for 7-9 Nov 2011 in Corvallis, Oregon.
PAGES had invited applications from groups interested in hosting the 4th PAGES Open Science Meeting (OSM) and the associated 2nd Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) in 2013. A total of 10 exciting bids from 5 different continents were received and PAGES is delighted with this strong interest in hosting the events.
The PAGES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) decided that the 4th PAGES OSM & 2nd YSM will be held in Goa, India in Feb 2013.
Stefanie Wirth of ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Yoshimi Kubota of Univ. of Tokyo (Japan) and M.C. Manoj of NCAOR (India) were chosen as PAGES Poster Award winners by the INQUA Judging Panel at the XVIII INQUA Congress held in Bern, Switzerland (20-27 July 2011).
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The PAGES Scientific Steering Committee approved 2 proposals for new PAGES Working Groups at their meeting in July 2011.
The new Sea Ice Proxies and Solar Forcing Working Groups will help reinforce PAGES Focus 1.
The call for sessions for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2012 (22-27 April, Vienna) is open until 16 Sept 2011.
The organizers welcome both: (i) new sessions with conveners and description and (ii) modifications to the skeleton programme sessions. For more information and to submit a session proposal, visit the conference website.
Integrative Paleoscience for Sustainable Management: This PAGES Focus 4 newsletter focuses on the important perspective offered by paleoenvironmental records in ascertaining the complexity of modern landscape management decisions.
NEW! For the first time, PAGES news is also available in the visually-appealing issuu™ digital publishing format.
PAGES Focus 4 leader, John Dearing, stresses the importance of learning from the past to ascertain the complexity of environment management decisions for the IGBP newsletter, Global Change (Issue 77).
