Find out what happened at the PAGES 2k Network CoralHydro2k project meeting in September 2017 in their recent Eos report.
Jens Zinke et al. discuss why corals are a key archive for understanding variability over seasons, years and decades in "Reconstructing climate and environment from coral archives".
The project's future plans are also highlighted.
Read more about the project and join the mailing list to be involved!
A paper from the PAGES 2k Network Antarctica 2k project, discussed at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, today, has been featured on the BBC News website.
Presented at the EGU by 2k Network member Liz Thomas, authors use 79 ice-core snow accumulation records in their paper "Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years", published in Climate of the Past in November 2017.
Thomas said the work was undertaken to try to put current ice losses into a broader context. Read the BBC interview with Thomas here.
Read the British Antarctic Survey press release here.
Read the Antarctica 2k paper here. It is a contribution to the upcoming 2k Network Special Issue "Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses".
A new workshop report in Wildfire Magazine from PAGES' Global Paleofire Working Group 2 (GPWG2) highlights the Global Charcoal Database and the group's productive history.
Written by Kendrick Brown et al., the report, titled "Applying paleofire records in ecological management", stems from the "Paleofire knowledge for current and future ecosystem management" meeting held in Montreal, Canada, in October 2017. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the applicability of fire history data in ecosystem management.
Read the report here.
The Iso2k project of the PAGES 2k Network has published a project update report in Eos.
Titled "Piecing Together the Big Picture on Water and Climate", authors Bronwen Konecky et al. discuss a new database which brings together water isotope data from many sources, providing an integrated resource for studying changes in Earth’s hydroclimate over the past 2,000 years.
Measuring changes in the relative abundances of heavy oxygen and hydrogen isotopes recorded in natural archives provides a way to reconstruct local, regional, and even global climate signals.
The Iso2k effort is currently the only global hydroclimate database being constructed for the Common Era, and provides a comprehensive synthesis of heavy oxygen and hydrogen isotope records in a format suitable for regional-scale climate reconstructions or for data-model comparisons.
Read the report here.
Members of the LandCover6k working group have constructed a hierarchical model for spatial compositional data to reconstruct past land-cover compositions for five time periods during the past 6000 years over Europe.
Behnaz Pirzamanbein et al.'s findings were published in a recent Spatial Statistics paper, titled "Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties".
Access the paper here.
Attention early-career researchers! The new The Early Pages blog launched today.
The blog is an integral part of PAGES ECN and covers three main categories: Science Stories, Experiences, and Opinion pieces.
The first two posts are by Aleksandra Pospieszyńska and Stella Alexandroff.
Would you like to write about something close to your heart too? To contribute, contact the blog organizers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the call for applications to join PAGES' Scientific Steering Committee, PAGES Early-Career Network updates and the first paper published in PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting's special issue of Climate of the Past.
