The paleoscience community is invited to join a teleconference presenting the current status of the PAGES 2k Network initiative and its projects.
Anyone interested in past global changes of the last 2000 years is welcome to join. No prior registration or participation in 2k activities is necessary.
Two identical teleconferences are offered to encourage worldwide participation. Choose which one suits best.
A paper published yesterday in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which resulted from a PAGES-supported workshop, investigates the effects of bark beetle outbreaks.
Titled "Bark beetles as agents of change in social–ecological systems", Jesse Morris and co-authors synthesize experiences from recent outbreaks to encourage knowledge transfer from previously impacted communities to potentially vulnerable locations.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
PAGES LandCover6k working group published a paper yesterday in Nature's Scientific Reports which helps establish the origin of Europe’s current land-cover mosaic via pollen analysis.
Led by Neil Roberts, the authors utilise and compare three numerical approaches to transforming pollen data into past forest cover, drawing on >1000 14C-dated site records. All reconstructions highlight the different histories of the mixed temperate and the northern boreal forests, with the former declining progressively since ~6000 years ago.
The next phase of PAGES' 2k Network continues to grow with the launch of three new projects today. Be involved! Sign up to their mailing lists to stay informed.
ARAMATE focuses on the reconstruction of ecosystem and climate variability in the north Atlantic region using annually resolved archives of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Read more.
CLIM-ARCH-DATE deals with integration of high resolution climate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events. Read more.
PALEOLINK aims to evaluate and develop new downscaling strategies that allows linking coarse Earth System Model simulations with climate reconstructions. Read more.
New 2k Network projects can be proposed at any time. Do you have a project idea focusing on past global changes of the last 2000 years? Read more here.
Members of the LandCover6k working group recently published a study on Anthropogenic land-cover change (ALCC) in Land.
Jed Kaplan et al. perform a systematic evaluation of two widely-used ALCC scenarios (KK10 and HYDE3.1) in northern and part of central Europe using an independent, pollen-based reconstruction of Holocene land cover (REVEALS).
Access the article, titled "Constraining the Deforestation History of Europe: Evaluation of Historical Land Use Scenarios with Pollen-Based Land Cover Reconstructions" here.
Learn more about the LandCover6k working group and sign up to the mailing list here.
Have you seen all the amazing PAGES working group sessions at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018?
Abstracts are due 10 January!
Find out more about all the PAGES sessions and splinter meeting here.
The EGU will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 8-13 April 2018.
