New QI special issue

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Published: Wednesday, 21 September 2016 12:45

A special issue of Quaternary International, resulting from a PAGES-supported conference, has recently been published.

Edited by Marcel Mindrescu and Daniel Veres, "Climate change in the Balkan-Carpathian region during Late Pleistocene and Holocene" contains over 25 papers concerning the Carpathian and Balkan ranges, which act as a boundary between two major climatic influences within the European continent.

The research articles published in this volume present the most valuable contributions to Central Eastern European paleoscience presented at CBW2014 and suggest that investigation topics, tackled by both locally established researchers and scientists for the larger palaeoclimate community, are very diverse.

Access the special issue here.

Condensed PAGES overview

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Published: Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:07

Short on time but keen to understand more about what PAGES does?

Read the latest PAGES pocketguide, explaining our science structure, themes and initiatives here.

Guest seeks volunteers

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Published: Monday, 19 September 2016 11:55

PAGES welcomes guest scientist Dr Erle Ellis to our office in Bern.

Ellis, on leave for one year from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA, is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.

A long-time collaborator with PAGES, he will work with the LandCover6k working group and GLP on his GLOBE project. He is also working on a special issue of the Journal: Land on Anthromes 12k, and writing a book.

GLOBE currently supports real-time global geospatial analysis. The plan is to build a prototype for real-time geo-temporal analysis and visualization over the past 50,000 years. Ellis aims to show how both can connect in deep time, using online interactive tools.

Volunteers are being sought. People involved in paleodata archives, geostatistics and visualization are encouraged to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 30.

Call for nomination of experts

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Published: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:08

At the 43rd Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 11-13 April 2016, the Panel approved the preparation of a Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

To develop the scope and outline of this Special Report, a Scoping Meeting will be held in the week of 13 February 2017 (venue to be confirmed). The Scoping Meeting would result in a draft Scoping Paper describing the objectives and an annotated outline of the Special Report as well as the process and timeline for its preparation. During its 45th Session, in April 2017, the Panel will review the draft Scoping Paper and decide on further IPCC work on this Special Report.
 
Future Earth, as an observer organization to the IPCC, is invited to nominate experts to participate in the Scoping Meeting of this Special Report. Members of the Future Earth Committees, Secretariat, leaders of Core Projects and Knowledge-Action Networks are invited to propose themselves or colleagues from the Future Earth network.

Nominations due Thursday 29 September 2016 (6pm CEST).

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Apply for meeting support

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Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 14:46

The next deadline for PAGES' meeting support applications is 10 October 2016.

Applicants must contact an SSC member at least two weeks before the deadline to explain the meeting plan.

PAGES offers meeting support under three categories of workshops:
- PAGES' working group meetings
- Educational meetings
- Open call meetings

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Propose a new working group

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Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 10:30

Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?

Propose a new PAGES' working group by 10 October 2016 to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee, discussing your plans, at least two weeks before you submit the proposal.​ Applications received without SSC member notification will not be looked upon favorably.

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