The General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) takes place in Vienna, Austria, from 3-8 May 2020.
We encourage you to submit an abstract to one of the many PAGES sessions.
The abstract deadline for financial support applications is 1 December 2019 and the main abstract deadline is 15 January 2020.
PAGES is calling for applications from scientists to serve on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from January 2021.
The deadline for consideration is Monday 24 February 2020 at 17:00 CET.
The SSC is the body responsible for overseeing PAGES' activities. New members are sought to fill the places of outgoing members (see the SSC Member History List).
Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of three years, with the potential of renewing for an additional three-year term. Read more for details on what's involved in being an SSC member and how to apply.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the new Past Global Changes Magazine, the open call for SSC members, PAGES at the AGU Fall Meeting, EGU call for abstracts, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, recent products, ECN updates including pre-registration for the 2020 workshop, Future Earth and WCRP information, and other relevant opportunities.
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Past Global Changes Magazine vol. 27 (2)
The new Past Global Changes Magazine, titled "Ocean Circulation and Carbon Cycling" is now available to read and download.
Guest edited by Julia Gottschalk, Xu Zhang and Andrea Burke, this issue highlights the paleoceanographic proxies and Earth system modeling studies used to reconstruct and understand changes in these processes over a range of climate states, and the recent progress and ongoing challenges in reconstructing these changes, with an aim to inspire further research.
It is a contribution to the PAGES OC3 working group.
A new contribution to the PAGES C-PEAT working group analyzes testate amoeba-derived hydrological reconstructions from 31 peatlands across Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and Continental Europe to examine changes in peatland surface wetness during the last 2,000 years.
"Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries", written by Graeme Swindles et al. and published in Nature Geoscience, shows that European peatlands have undergone substantial, widespread drying during the last ~300 years.
This marked recent transition in the hydrology of European peatlands is concurrent with compound pressures including climatic drying, warming and direct human impacts on peatlands, although these factors vary among regions and individual sites. Read the paper here.
Find out more about the C-PEAT working group and sign up to its mailing list here.
The recently formed Arctic Cryosphere Change and Coastal Marine Ecosystems (ACME) working group is collecting community perspectives on the current state and future directions of Arctic coastal paleoceanography via an online survey.
ACME strongly encourages community members and paleoceanographers of all career stages and backgrounds to respond to the short questionnaire by 15 November.
The results of the survey will provide a basis for outlining priority research questions and directions, and give an overview of spatial, methodological, and ecological knowledge gaps identified by the community.
The questionnaire is anonymous and will take about 10 minutes to complete. All details at the bottom of the group's home page.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the deadlines for new working group and workshop financial support applications, PAGES at the AGU Fall Meeting, our new sustainable workshops page, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, recent products, ECN updates including the link to the latest webinar, Future Earth and WCRP information, and other relevant opportunities.
