PAGES - Past Global Changes

SISAL database paper in ESSD

Details: Published: Monday, 01 October 2018 13:26

The Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis (SISAL) working group recently published the first overview of its database's contents and structure.

"The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems" by Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt et al. is published in Earth System Science Data and the compiled data are available here.

The database, currently in its first version, contains oxygen and carbon isotope measurements from 371 individual speleothem records and 10 composite records from 174 cave systems from around the world.

Energy-consumption paper

Details: Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:15

Members of the PEOPLE 3000 working group published a paper in PNAS yesterday which looks at human energy consumption reaching back 10,000 years and across four continents.

The paper, led by Jacob Freeman and titled "Synchronization of energy consumption by human societies throughout the Holocene", pulls together, for the first time, radiocarbon dates analyzed in recent decades into a single model.

Historical records provided information on energy consumption in eight countries since 1880, while radiocarbon records provided estimates of energy consumption in societies from four continents over the past 10,000 years. The authors believe their research highlights the importance of long-term perspectives that can lead to novel insights for today’s societies and help prepare us for changing global environments.

Access the paper here.

Learn more about PEOPLE 3000 and join their mailing list here.

Read the latest e-news

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 16:29

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

Highlights include the PAGES IPO job announcement for a Science Officer, 4 October deadline for new working group proposals, PAGES' working group and ECN updates and meeting announcements, and news from Future Earth, WCRP and our endorsed and affiliated groups.

2k Network Database profile

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 11:18

The International Relations Office at the University of Bern, Switzerland, has profiled the PAGES 2k Network Temperature Database and interviewed some of its contributors. Read their article here.

The Temperature Database paper was published in Scientific Data in 2017. Access the paper, with links to frequently asked questions, the international media coverage and the actual database, here.

Find out more about PAGES 2k Network and join their mailing list here.

Peatland carbon sink paper

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 11:07

A new paper from members of PAGES' C-PEAT working group was published in Nature Climate Change on Monday.

Led by Angela Gallego-Sala, "Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming" examines how the peatland carbon sink is likely to behave under future climate warming scenarios.

Access the paper here.

Find out more about C-PEAT and sign up to their mailing list here.

Sea level in the western Med

Details: Published: Tuesday, 11 September 2018 15:55

A new paper on relative sea level in the western Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period was published in Nature Geoscience yesterday.

Victor J. Polyak et al. found that their sea-level record does not support the hypothesis of rapid sea-level fluctuations within MIS-5e. Instead, they suggest that melting of the polar ice sheets occurred early in the interglacial period, followed by gradual ice-sheet growth.

This paper stems from a PAGES-supported workshop held in Majorca, Spain, in April 2012.

Access the paper here.

PAGES seeks Science Officer

Details: Published: Monday, 10 September 2018 17:23

PAGES seeks a new Science Officer for our dedicated team at the International Project Office in Bern, Switzerland, to take over responsibilities for implementing and developing paleoscience activities, managing PAGES products, and networking within the international Global Change community.