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Published: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 16:45

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the call for Expressions of Interest to host PAGES 2021 Open Science and Young Scientists meetings, the call for nominations for our Scientific Steering Committee, new working group and workshop financial support deadlines, ECN updates, recent products and IPCC AR6 updates.
 

Paleo in IPCC WG1 AR6

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Published: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:02

Announcement: Input to paleoclimate content of IPCC Working Group 1 Assessment Report (AR6).

Paleoclimatology is fundamental to understanding the climate system, and is an important part of the IPCC’s assessment of climate science. Likewise, the IPCC’s assessment provides an avenue for the paleo-science community to highlight its essential role in climate science. This announcement is to inform paleoclimate scientists about a developing summary of large-scale paleoclimate indicators, and to solicit input to this product for AR6.

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Published: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 16:45

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the call for Expressions of Interest to host PAGES 2021 Open Science and Young Scientists meetings, the call for nominations for our Scientific Steering Committee, new working group and workshop financial support deadlines, ECN updates, recent products, IPCC updates and PAGES at the EGU General Assembly 2019 and INQUA Congress 2019.
 

SISAL database assessment

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Published: Monday, 10 December 2018 17:43

Members of PAGES SISAL working group have a new paper in Quaternary which reviews published Western Europe speleothem records in light of the recent publication of the SISAL database.

Franziska Lechleitner et al. investigate how representative the spatial and temporal distribution of the available records is for climate in Western Europe and review potential sites and strategies for future studies.

Access the paper "The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: A Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database" here.

Access the SISAL database and published paper here.

Find out more about SISAL and sign up to the mailing list here.

Host PAGES 2021 OSM & YSM

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Published: Wednesday, 05 December 2018 12:32

Held every four years, PAGES’ Open Science Meeting (OSM) and Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) provide an invaluable opportunity to bring the past global change community together from around the world to share, discuss, learn, and plan for the future.

Would you and your institution like to be an integral part of these premier events in the international paleoscience calendar? The call is now open to host the next meetings in 2021, preferably in the first half of the year.

The bidding process will take place in two stages with Expressions of Interest due 28 February 2019. PAGES' Scientific Steering Committee will then invite a shortlist of selected potential hosts to submit a full bid by early September 2019.

Learn more about our past OSMs and YSMs and watch a short summary video from the successful 2017 events, held in Spain, on PAGES' YouTube Channel.

Innovative online meetings

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Published: Monday, 03 December 2018 16:50

The Iso2k project of the PAGES 2k Network has set a new benchmark in how to conduct a successful online meeting.

Group leader Bronwen Konecky has organized four mini-retreats, focusing on writing and data clean-up.

"Both the science and the technicality/practicality are going well," said Konecky. "In fact, we were far more productive (in the first session) than I had anticipated.

"No one was jet lagged, everyone could eat whatever type of food they like, people brought their own coffee/tea/beer/wine etc, and all of that makes for a successful meeting."

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