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Past Global Changes Magazine, Volume 23, No. 1, January 2015

Emilie Capron, Didier M. Roche, and Paul Vallelonga

Contents: News -- Editorial -- Past4Future: European interdisciplinary research on past warm climate periods -- Science Highlights: Glacial Terminations and Interglacials -- A new Last Interglacial temperature data synthesis as an improved benchmark for climate modeling -- Widespread salinification of the North Pacific Ocean during the last glacial termination --Freshwater release and volcanic eruptions as drivers of abrupt changes during interglacial climate -- Multi-decadal temperature changes off Iberia over the last two deglaciations and interglacials and their connection with the polar climate -- Ice core-based isotopic constraints on past carbon cycle changes -- Two thousand years of boreal biomass burning recorded in the NEEM ice cores -- How to compare modeled fire dynamics with charcoal records? -- Modeling deep ocean flow speeds and δ13C during the Last Interglacial: Towards a more direct model-data comparison -- Deep Atlantic variability during the last interglacial period -- The Agulhas Leakage: the missing link in the interhemispheric climate seesaw? -- Sea-ice variability off West Greenland over the last five millennia derived from diatom assemblages -- The Past4Future project: outreach and dissemination of results -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene climate change and its context for the future -- Multiproxy approach to reconstruct the Pliocene climate -- Deglacial Ocean Circulation and Carbon Cycling -- Documenting past sea level and ice-sheet extent, and building databases -- Climate Change and human impact in Central and South America over the last 2000 years -- Indicators to address climate change impacts on marine ecosystems -- Towards a spatiotemporal expansion of temperature and hydroclimatic proxy archives Program News -- The online Varve Image Portal: A new tool for studying annually laminated sediments -- Aquatic Transitions Working Group -- Global Soil and Sediment transfers in the Anthropocene -- LandCover6k: Global anthropogenic land-cover change and its role in past climate
Past Global Changes Magazine, Volume 22, No. 2, October 2014

Ute Merkel, Denis-Didier Rousseau, and Jan-Berend Stuut

Contents: Announcements – News -- Editorial -- Present and past mineral dust variations – a cross-disciplinary challenge for research – Science Highlights: Dust -- Mineral dust: Meteorological controls and climate impacts -- Dust deposition rates derived from optical satellite observations -- Including dust dynamics in paleoclimate modeling -- Characterizing the temporal and spatial variability of African dust over the Atlantic -- The significance of particle size of long-range transported mineral dust -- A 10,000 km dust highway between the Taklamakan Desert and Greenland -- The enigma of dust provenance: where else does Antarctic dust come from? --Evidence that local dust sources supply low-elevation Antarctic regions -- South American dust signature in geological archives of the Southern Hemisphere -- Fingerprinting aeolian dust in marine sediment: examples from Australia -- Iron fertilization in the glacial ocean -- Loess as a Quaternary paleoenvironmental indicator -- Abrupt climate changes recorded in loess sequences -- Extracting paleodust information from peat geochemistry – Program News -- DICE: Dust impact on climate and environment -- DIRTMAP: development of a web-based dust archive -- Share your geoscience resources in EarthCube's Paleogeoscience Catalog -- Carbon in Peat on EArth through Time (C-PEAT) -- The quest for temperature and hydroclimate records -- Millennial-scale climate variability in the American tropics and subtropics -- Ice Core Young Scientists -- Workshop Reports -- Past sea ice reconstruction - proxy data and modeling -- PAGES2k: Advances in climate field reconstructions -- Understanding and reconstructing the Asian climate of the last 2000 years -- A novel multiproxy approach: The PAGES North America 2k working group -- Australasia’s climate variability: clues drawn from paleoclimate and model data -- Paleovariability: Data Model Comparisons -- Third general meeting of PMIP3 -- Age models, chronologies, and databases workshop -- “Paleoecological data analysis with R” course for Latin American researchers -- Towards more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past -- Ramsar Wetlands: Understanding Change in Ecological Character -- Dendrochronology heats up Down Under -- Cast, cut, sample and analyze: A practical approach to processing speleothems -- Mediterranean Holocene climate and human societies -- Modeling and data perspectives on reconstructing Late Pleistocene ice sheets -- Constraining Holocene solar forcing by “detection and attribution” – Scientific Interview -- Tom Crowley (1948-2014)
Past Global Changes Magazine, Volume 22, No. 1, April 2014

Bernd Zolitschka, Jennifer Pike, and Lucien von Gunten

Contents: News – Pages restructured -- Editorial -- Maximizing the information yield from annually resolving natural archives – Science Highlights: Annual Recorders of the Past -- Layers within layers: quantifying seasonal versus event processes in varved sediments --Understanding varve formation from sediment trapping and limnological monitoring -- Hyperspectral imaging: investigating sediment structures and composition -- High-precision sampling of laminated sediments: Strategies from Lake Suigetsu -- Seasonal laminae in marine sediments: applications and potential -- The global network of tree-ring widths and its applications to paleoclimatology -- The potential of tree rings in Terra Australis -- Bivalve shells: ultra high-resolution paleoclimate archives -- Annually laminated speleothems in paleoclimate studies -- Seasonality in speleothems -- State of the art of ice core annual layer dating -- Annually resolved climate signals in high-alpine ice cores -- Mini Section: Human Impact on Soils and Sediments in Asia -- PAGES’ Focus 4 Theme on Soils and Sediments: an Asian perspective -- Social upheaval in Angkor from fluvial response to land use and climate variability -- Sediment load and carbon burial in the Yellow River during the Holocene -- Tectonic and volcanic forcing on fluvial systems: two case studies from Japan – Workshop Reports -- Hydroclimatic reconstructions over Europe and the Mediterranean -- 12th International Workshop on Subfossil Chironomids -- Multi-Scale Analyses of Fire-Climate-Vegetation Interactions on Millennial Scales -- Holocene circum-Arctic peatland carbon dynamics -- Estimating rates and sources of sea level change during past warm periods -- Compare 2013: Constraining tropical ocean cooling during the last glacial -- Integrated analyses of reconstructions and multi-model simulations for the past 2k -- PMIP Ocean - Understanding changes since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Quaternary paleoecology: Reconstructing past environments -- Long-term perspectives on ocean and climate dynamics – Three decades of ICP -- 4th Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop -- Isotopes of carbon, water and geotracers in paleoclimate research -- Reconstructing past sea ice -- 1st Summer School on Speleothem Science -- 1st Workshop on Paleoecological Databases in South America -- Eastern African Quaternary Climate change and variability -- African climate-vegetation interaction since the last glacial period -- SynTraCE-21 Workshop
PAGES News, Volume 21, No. 2, August 2013

Pascale Braconnot, Chris Brierley, and Sandy P. Harrison

Contents: Inside PAGES -- 20 years of PAGES news -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: El Niño-Southern Oscillation -- Editorial -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation - observation and modeling -- Myanmar monsoon drought variability over the past 300 years: linkages to ENSO -- Coral microatoll reconstructions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation -- Giant clam recorders of ENSO variability -- Reconstructing ENSO in the Eastern Tropical Pacific from short-lived marine mollusks -- Challenges in understanding and modeling ENSO -- Coral-model comparison highlighting the role of salinity in long-term trends -- The response of pseudo-corals to ENSO in an isotope enabled climate model -- ENSO and changes in the mean state in Holocene simulations -- A controversial insight into Southwest Pacific mid-Holocene seasonality -- Interannual variability in the Tropical Pacific during the last glacial period -- ENSO behavior before the Pleistocene -- Mini Section: Data assimilation methods -- Overview of data assimilation methods -- Transient state estimation in paleoclimatology using data assimilation -- Best-of-both-worlds estimates for timeslices in the past -- Parameter estimation using paleo-data assimilation -- Workshop Reports -- Impact of climate and sea level change on coastal evolution -- Holocene land-cover change in Eastern Asia for climate modeling -- Palaeo50: The priority research questions in paleoecology -- The Agulhas System: its role in ocean circulation, climate, and marine ecosystems -- IPICS First Open Science conference -- Analyzing paleolimnological data with R -- The Sun and its role in climate change -- Program News -- The backbone of PAGES 2k: data management and archiving -- Updated Latin American Pollen Database -- Young Scientists Meeting 2013 -- A brief report on the 2nd PAGES Young Scientists Meeting -- The Art of Communicating Science -- The Art of Reviewing -- The Art of Data Sharing -- Reports from the YSM breakout groups
PAGES News, Volume 21, No. 1, March 2013

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Emilie Capron, and Emma Stone

Contents: Inside PAGES -- Special Section: Investigating past interglacials: An integrative approach -- Editorial -- Past4Future - learning from interglacials -- Past4Future: Behind the Scenes -- Past4Future stakeholder survey -- Lifting the veil on speleothem sampling -- Drilling a deep ice core at the NEEM site (Greenland) -- Sampling marine sediment -- Insights into paleoclimate modeling -- Science Highlights -- Using marine sediment archives to reconstruct past outlet glacier variability -- Data assimilation to estimate the consistency between proxies and model results -- Increasing fire activity in a warming climate? -- Antarctic interglacial climate and changes in ice sheet topography -- Land biosphere dynamics during the present and the last interglacials -- Reconstruction of the last interglacial period from the NEEM ice core -- Speleothem records over the last interglacial -- Dating and synchronizing paleoclimatic records over the last interglacial -- Sea surface temperature controls on water isotopes in Greenland ice cores -- Reconstruction of past sea ice extent -- A climate model inter-comparison of last interglacial peak warmth -- Continuous in-field measurements of gas concentration from ice cores -- Sea level variations during the last interglacial -- Workshop Reports -- Paleofire workshop -- Sea level changes into MIS 5: From observations to predictions -- Ice sheet climate interactions: Implications for coastal engineering -- Modes of variability in the climate system: Past-Present-Future -- The 4th PAGES past interglacials workshop -- Sea ice in the paleoclimate system
PAGES News, Volume 20, No. 2, December 2012

Takeshi Nakatsuka, Ryuji Tada, and Kenji Kawamura

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: Japanese Paleoscience Editorial -- Japanese paleoscience on past climate and environmental changes -- Science Highlights -- Ocean circulation in the North Pacific during the last glacial termination -- North Pacific - North Atlantic linkages during the Last Glacial Termination -- Teleconnection between Asian Monsoon and the North Atlantic -- Latent 1500-year climate oscillation in the Holocene -- The history of Lake Biwa drilling -- Lake Suigetsu 2006 Varved Sediment Core Project -- Monsoon in subtropical Asia from oxygen isotope ratios of tree-ring cellulose -- Hydroclimate reconstruction in Indonesia by stalagmite isotopic analyses -- River runoff over 2000 years in the Heihe River Basin, northwestern China -- Climate events in coral records from Ishigaki and Ogasawara Islands, Japan -- Tracing the response of climate to galactic cosmic rays -- Document-based reconstruction of past climate in Japan -- Human-environment interaction and climate in the Japanese Archipelago -- Open Section -- Science Highlights -- An 800-year reconstruction of annual temperature for North America -- A pollen based North America temperature reconstruction back to 480 AD -- Program News -- Future Earth – Research for global sustainability -- Sea Ice Proxy Working Group (SIP) -- Solar Forcing – a new PAGES Working Group -- Workshop Reports -- Arctic2k: Spatiotemporal temperature reconstruction -- 2nd Workshop of the PAGES Asia2k Working Group -- Paleoclimatic data to reconstruct European/Mediterranean temperature change -- Climatic and environmental signals from varved sediments -- A strategic plan for scientific drilling in the East African rift lakes -- Assessing the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet through ocean drilling -- Dust dynamics: low-latitude records and global implications -- Human-climate-ecosystem interactions: learning from the past -- Report on the PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel Meeting -- Using paleo-climate model/data comparisons to constrain future projections -- The Paleo-ocean challenge: data meet models -- Paleoclimate modeling: an integrated component of climate change science -- Second International Cave Monitoring Workshop -- Climate Refugia: Joint Inference from Fossils, Genetics and Models -- Landscape Planning for the Future -- Geoarchaeological Workshop, Poland and Czech Republic
PAGES News, Volume 20, No. 1, February 2012

Ninad R. Bondre, Thorsten Kiefer, and Lucien von Gunten

Contents: Inside PAGES -- Eulogy: Mohammed Umer Mohammed -- PAGES calendar -- Program News -- Ocean2k Working group – Call for participation -- Scientific Ocean Drilling: Voyage of Discovery beyond 2013 -- New SCOR/IGBP working group on modern planktonic foraminifera kicked off -- Special Section: Paired Perspectives on Global Change – Editorial -- Harnessing the past and the present in the service of the future -- Science Highlights -- Earth System models: How well do Earth system models simulate global change? -- Climate sensitivity: How sensitive is Earth’s climate to CO2 ? -- Carbon cycle: How are C sinks and sources varying with global change? -- Ocean circulation: Does large-scale circulation vary with climate change? -- Marine nutrient cycling: How will the ocean’s capacity of carbon pumping vary? -- Arctic sea ice: When will the Arctic Ocean become ice-free? -- Aerosols and climate: How sensitive is earth’s climate to atmospheric aerosols? -- Land cover change: How does human land cover dynamics affect climate change? -- Fire: Are we facing an increase in wildfires? -- Monsoon climate: Will summer rain increase or decrease in monsoon regions? -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation: What is the outlook for ENSO? -- Sea level rise: How much and how fast will sea level rise over the coming centuries? -- Hurricanes/Typhoons: Will tropical cyclones become stronger and more frequent? -- Coastlines: How do environmental changes affect coastlines and river deltas? -- Ocean Acidification: How will ongoing ocean acidification affect marine life? -- Water resources: How severe will freshwater shortages be on a regional scale? -- Ecosystem: How do ecosystems respond to climate change? -- Abrupt changes: Are tipping points a concern in coping with global change? -- Open Section -- Science Highlights -- Is there a global Holocene climate mode? -- Workshop Reports -- 2nd PAGES 2k Network Meeting: Review of current status -- The 1st Workshop of the PAGES Antarctica2k Working Group -- The nitrogen cycle in the ocean, past and present -- Sediment and carbon fluxes under human impact and climate change -- Ice sheet modeling, sea level and isostasy -- PMIP3: Tropical Climate Variability -- NAM2k: North American Dendroclimatic Data -- 3rd Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop -- Climate change in the Carpathian-Balkan region -- International conference of young scientists
PAGES News, Volume 19, No. 2, July 2011

John Dearing, Markus Dotterwelch, and Thomas Foster

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: Integrative Paleoscience for Sustainable Management -- Editorial -- Integrative paleoscience for sustainable management -- Workshop Report -- Regional integration of past records for management of modern resources -- Science Highlights -- Conservation and habitat restoration of moorland and bog in the UK uplands -- Spatial and temporal controls on hydro-geomorphic processes in French Prealps -- Past land use and soil erosion processes in central Europe -- Long-term perspectives on an iconic landscape: Origins and future trajectories -- Grazing activities and biodiversity history in the Pyrenees -- Managing biodiversity using long-term regional data in the SE USA -- Assessing environmental response and recovery of a Great Lakes watershed -- Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil: An integrated historical perspective -- Regional wetland response typology: Murray-Darling Basin, Australia -- Open Section -- Science Highlights -- Evidence for bias in C/N, δ13C and δ15N values due to acid pre-treatment methods -- Extending glacier monitoring into the Little Ice Age and beyond -- Proximal trigger for late glacial Antarctic circulation and CO2 changes -- Program News -- Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge: Available for participation -- Workshop Reports -- Arctic2k: Synthesizing paleoclimate data to assess Arctic climate change -- 2nd Australasia 2k Network workshop: Data synthesis and research planning -- Euro-Med2k workshop: Current knowledge, available data, multiproxy integration -- Advancing N. American climate field reconstructions -- Reconstructing climate variations in S. America and the Antarctic Peninsula -- Bayesian hierarchical models for climate field reconstruction -- Synthesis of transient climate evolution of the last 21 ka workshop -- The 3rd PAGES Past Interglacials workshop -- Reconstruction of Holocene environmental conditions in northern Poland -- PMIP3 workshop -- The 3rd Eastern Africa Quaternary Research Association workshop -- Multidecadal and centennial ENSO variability -- Linking monsoon systems across timescales -- Relative sea level, ice sheets and isostasy past, present and future -- Learning from other communities: Towards more robust varve chronologies -- Land-cover reconstructions: Pollen modeling approach and data synthesis -- 2010 international workshop on XRF core scanning
PAGES News, Volume 19, No. 1, March 2011

Elena Xoplaki, Dominik Fleltmann, and Henry Diaz

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Special Section: Medieval Climate Anomaly -- Editorial -- Medieval Climate Anomaly -- Science Highlights -- Solar activity – the past 1200 years -- Medieval Climate Anomaly to Little Ice Age transition in current climate models -- Evidence for global climate reorganization during medieval times -- Medieval hydroclimate revisited -- The Medieval Climate Anomaly in Europe in simulations with data assimilation -- European tree-ring data and the Medieval Climate Anomaly -- Hydrological pattern in the Iberian Peninsula region -- Medieval drought in No. America: The role of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation -- Reconstructed and simulated Medieval Climate Anomaly in South America -- Blocking circulation anomalies in the Tasman Sea region -- Climate during the Medieval Climate Anomaly in China -- The Medieval Climate Anomaly in Greenland ice core data -- The Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Middle East: Arabic documentary sources -- Nile flood discharge during the Medieval Climate Anomaly -- Workshop Reports -- The Medieval Warm Period redux: where and when was it warm? -- Workshop Reports -- Active Tephra 2010: International field conference on tephrochronology -- Paleochronology building workshop -- Paleo-ocean acidification and carbon cycle perturbation events -- Lakes, rivers and floodplains: evolving relations -- Holocene climate variability at high-southern latitudes (HOLOCLIP) -- The first Asia2k regional workshop -- South American climatology and quantitative climate reconstructions
PAGES News, Volume 18, No. 2, August 2010

Cathy Whitlock, Willy Tinner, and Louise Newman

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: Fire in the Earth System: A Paleoperspective -- Editorial -- Fire in the Earth System -- Science Highlights -- Recent advances in the analysis and interpretation of sediment-charcoal records -- Molecular markers in ice cores provide large-scale patterns in biomass burning -- Global patterns of biomass burning during the last glacial period -- A fire paradox in ecosystems around the Mediterranean -- Tropical fire ecology across the African continent: A paleoecological perspective -- Holocene fires in eastern Canada: Towards forest management -- Fire and climate variation in western North America -- Paleofire activity in tropical America during the last 21 ka -- Paleofires in southern South America since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Paleofire in the wet tropics of northeast Queensland, Australia -- Humans and fire: Consequences of anthropogenic burning during the past 2 ka -- Pyrogeography: Understanding the ecological niche of fire -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- Proxy evidence for coherent failures of the summer monsoons of Asia -- An emerging paradigm: Process-based climate reconstructions -- Workshop Reports - Workshop on modeling Holocene climate evolution -- Advances in varved sediment studies during the last 10 years -- The 1st Australasia 2k regional workshop: Towards data synthesis -- The nitrogen cycle in the ocean, past and present -- The first Africa 2k regional workshop -- PAGES regional workshop in Japan
PAGES News, Volume 18, No. 1, April 2010

Stephen T. Jackson, Dan Charman, and Louise Newman

Contents: Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES bookshelf -- PAGES calendar -- A taste of the YSM proceedings issue -- National PAGES -- Special Section: Peatlands: Paleoenvironments and Carbon Dynamics – Editorial -- Peatlands: Paleoenvironments and Carbon Dynamics -- Science Highlights -- Peatland archives of late-Holocene climate change in northern Europe -- Using peatland archives to test paleoclimate hypotheses -- Peatlands as a model system for exploring and reconciling chronologies -- Peatland records of solar activity -- A multi-proxy high-resolution approach to reconstructing environmental change -- Stable isotopes and organic geochemistry in peat -- Peat cellulose isotopes as indicators of Asian monsoon variability -- Peat as an archive of atmospheric pollution and environmental change -- The northern peatland carbon pool and the Holocene carbon cycle -- Past and present carbon accumulation and loss in Southeast Asian peatlands -- Inception, history and development of peatlands in the Amazon Basin -- Peatland exchanges of CO2 and CH4 : The importance of permafrost -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- El Niño/Southern Oscillation and SST changes over the last 1.2 ka -- Modes of eastern equatorial Pacific thermocline variability: Implications for ENSO -- Southern Hemisphere intermediate water formation and the bi-polar seesaw -- Workshop Reports -- The 2nd PAGES past interglacials (PIGS) workshop -- Understanding future sea level rise: The challenges of dating past interglacials -- High- to mid-latitude northern atmospheric circulation changes -- The West African Quaternary Research Association inaugural workshop
PAGES News, Volume 17, No. 3, October 2009

Reinhard Plenltz, Andre Lotter, and Louise Newman

Contents: Inside PAGES -- Eulogy - John Eddy -- PAGES calendar -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Tales from the "football" Field -- Special Section: Advances in Paleolimnology -- Editorial: Advances in Paleolimnology -- Science Highlights -- The potential of high-resolution X-ray fluorescence core scanning -- The potential of varves in high-resolution paleolimnological studies -- FTIRS: Rapid, quantitative analysis of biogeochemical properties of lake sediments -- Stable isotopes in chitinous fossils of aquatic invertebrates -- Microbial membrane lipids in lake sediments as a paleothermometer -- Ancient DNA in lake sediment records -- Tracking the effects of “aquatic osteoporosis” using paleolimnology -- Calibration-in-time: From biogeochem. proxies to quantitative climate variables -- Environmental and climatic changes inferred from lake deposits in China -- Paleolimnology of African lakes: Beyond the exploration phase -- South American lake paleo-records across the Pampean Region -- Results of recent sediment drilling activities in deep crater lakes -- Program News: - Paleolimnology and the restoration of aquatic systems -- Program News -- The PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection: Vision for the future -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- Younger Dryas Larix in eastern Siberia: A migrant or survivor? -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene Climate Change in the Asian Region -- The East African Quaternary: Lessons from the past for the future -- Data-assimilation techniques for paleoclimate data -- Peatland archives of Holocene climate variability -- Climate variability, forcings, feedbacks and responses -- Mechanisms of Quaternary climate change: Stability of warm phases -- Towards a global synthesis of the climate of the last 2 ka -- PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting -- PAGES 3rd OSM: Retrospective views on our planet's future
PAGES News, Volume 17, No. 2, June 2009

Mark Siddall, William G. Thompson, and Claire Waelbroeck

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Tales from the field -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Special Section: Understanding sea level: Ways forward from the past -- Editorial: Past ice sheet dynamics and sea level—placing the future in context -- Science Highlights -- Recent Antarctic and Greenland ice-mass fluxes from satellite observations -- U-series dating of fossil coral reefs: Consensus and controversy -- Using models to inform the field community: Far-field sea level data applications -- PLIOMAX: Pliocene maximum sea level project -- The dimensions of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Extending the U-series dating of fossil coral reefs back to MIS 15 -- Ice sheet retreat and sea level rise during the last deglaciation -- A new chronology of sea level highstands for the penultimate interglacial -- Tempo of global deglaciation during the early Holocene: A sea level perspective -- Coastal vegetation evidence for sea level changes associated with Heinrich Events -- Ice sheet climate interactions during the ice age cycle -- Program News -- ADOM - Atmospheric circulation dynamics during the last glacial cycle -- Science Highlights: Polar Paleoscience Addendum -- Termination of the MWP: Linking N. Atlantic circulation changes to ENSO -- Reading the first early Cenozoic central Arctic sediment record -- Science Highlights: Open section -- Imprint of changes in multidecadal climate variability on temperature reconstructions -- Workshop Reports -- Global monsoon in observations, simulations and geological records -- First international cave monitoring field workshop -- Integrated analysis of interglacial climate dynamics -- Compiling records of Holocene erosion and sediment transport -- Sustainable water and land management in semi-arid regions
PAGES News, Volume 17, No. 1, January 2009

Julie Brigham-Grette, Ross Powell, and Louise Newman

Contents: Editorial: Change at the Poles: A Paleoscience Perspective -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- PAGES OSM and YSM announcement -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- Data portal for transient paleoclimate simulations covering the last 21 kyr -- Teleconnections during glacial terminations associated with ENSO-like variability -- Accurate dating of Gallipoli Terrace sediments: Historical eruptions and climate -- Special Section: Change at the Poles: A Paleoscience Perspective -- Science Highlights -- 2000 years of climate variability inferred from Arctic lake sediments -- Holocene paleoclimate of the Canadian Arctic Islands: The ACVAST project -- Stable isotopes in tree rings from the Russian Arctic - a winter precipitation proxy? -- Arctic thermokarst lakes and the carbon cycle -- Initial results of HOTRAX address a wide range of Arctic paleoclimate issues -- Lake El’gygytgyn’s emerging IPY record of Pliocene to recent Arctic change -- Antarctic Paleobiology: Constraining reconstructions of past ice-sheet extent -- Sea-ice proxies in Antarctic ice cores -- Accurate chronology for Antarctic ice cores on orbital timescales -- Antarctic Ice Sheet and climate history since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Change in the Southern Ocean: Responding to Antarctica -- New records of the role of Antarctic ice sheets in late Cenozoic climate -- Workshop Reports: -- Cenozoic bi-polar connections over millennia -- Recent change in the climate and atmospheric chemistry over Antarctica -- Ninth International Conference on Permafrost -- Workshop Reports - What causes glacial-interglacial cycles? -- CLIVAR-PAGES-WCRP summer school on El Niño -- PAGES Focus 4: Past Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions (PHAROS) -- Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase 2 -- Oxygen isotopes as tracers of Mediterranean climate variability -- Past climate variability in the Altai -- Climate extremes and their impact on Mediterranean societies
PAGES News, Volume 16, No. 3, August 2008

Dominik Fleltmann, Christoph Spotl, and Louise Newman

Contents: Editorial: Advances in Speleothem Research -- Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- PAGES OSM and YSM announcement -- National PAGES: Serbia -- Science Highlight: Open Section -- Absolute chronologies from the ocean -- On the abyssal circulation in the Atlantic basin at the Last Glacial -- Special Section: Advances in Speleothem Research -- Science Highlights: - Climate variability recorded in tropical and sub-tropical speleothems -- Paleotemperature reconstruction using noble gas concentrations -- Paleotemperatures from fluid inclusion liquid-vapor homogenization -- Cave monitoring and calibration of a δ18O-climate transfer function -- Understanding climate proxies in southwest-Australian speleothems -- Temperature and precipitation from stalagmites under disequilibrium conditions -- The origin of lamination in Austrian stalagmites: Towards a seasonality proxy -- Ethiopian precipitation reconstructed from annual growth-rate parameters -- Using stalagmite geochemistry to detect past volcanic eruptions -- Monitoring environmental pollution using a stalagmite from Hungary -- Timing of the 8.2-kyr event in a stalagmite from Northern Oman -- Millennial-scale climate variability recorded in Brazilian speleothems -- Workshop Reports: -- Climate Change: The Karst Record (KR5) -- Workshop Reports - Establishing a Northern Eurasian paleoecological database: The pollen data -- International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) -- ESF EuroCLIMATE Spring School: Late Quaternary timescales and chronology -- New PAGES Working Group: Arctic2k - Arctic climate during the last 2 millennia
PAGES News, Volume 16, No. 2, April 2008

Gerrlt Lohmann, Louise Newman, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Professor Tungsheng Liu: Obituary -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- National PAGES: Poland -- Special Section: Data-Model Comparison -- Introduction from the Guest Editor -- Linking data and models -- Science Highlights -- N. hemisphere atmospheric blocking in ice core accumulation records -- Reconstruction of Quaternary temperature fields and model-data comparison -- Maunder Minimum climate variability -- Little Ice Age in southern Patagonia -- 3-D 14C modeling: Last Glacial ocean circulation and 14C chronologies -- Data assimilation over the last millennium using ensemble techniques -- Facilitating proxy data interpretation of abrupt climate events using modeling -- PMIP2 climate model proxy data intercomparisons for the LGM -- Are paleo-proxy data helpful for constraining future climate change? -- Volcanism and the Little Ice Age -- PRISM Model/Data Cooperative: Mid-Pliocene data model comparisons -- How unusual was autumn 2006 in Europe? -- Risk prediction of Canadian wildfires -- Program News -- Data management in paleoclimatology -- Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) -- Overview of some current CLIVAR modeling activities -- Program News -- Towards an Australasian climate reconstruction for the past two millennia -- Workshop Reports -- Understanding the marine biotic response to anthropogenic CO2 emissions -- Oceanography and climate change: Past, present and future scenarios
PAGES News, Volume 16, No. 1, January 2008

Markus Klenast, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, and Louise Newman

Contents: Editorial: Paleoceanography -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- Paleo Reconstruction Challenge -- Bipolar Climate Machinery -- Special Section: Paleoceanography -- Program News -- IGBP Ocean Programs -- IMAGES -- Science Highlights -- Carbon burp and transient global warming during the PETM -- Pleistocene records of marine carbonate chemistry -- An increase in ventilation of the abyssal N. Pacific -- Evidence for rapid ice sheet growth during the last glacial -- Control on the W. African monsoon precipitation: Insights from the past -- East-West seesaw of SST variation in N. Pacific during the last 2 cycles -- Last glacial SST changes in the SE Pacific: A Bipolar seesaw perspective -- N. Atlantic salinity oscillations linked to atmospheric and ocean circulation -- Bipolar seesaw on the Iberian Margin over the past 420 kyr -- Reconstructing the AMO from cross basin density estimates -- Reconstructing MOC using sedimentary 231Pa/230Th -- Deep ocean flow speed linked to NAO through Labrador Sea convection --Workshop Reports -- 9th International Conference on Paleoceanography -- Intra- and interhemispheric variability of SST and the hydrological cycle -- Workshop Reports -- 3rd von Humboldt International Conference: East Asian Monsoon -- International workshop on methods in paleoecology -- Fire in the Earth System: Global Paleofire Working Group -- Mangrove paleoecology and environmental change meeting -- Environmental change and sustainable development in arid/semi arid regions -- 1st Asian dendrochronology conference
PAGES News, Volume 15, No. 1, April 2007

John Dearing, Louise Cromer, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Editorial: Past human-climate-ecosystem interactions -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- PAGES session at INQUA -- Broecker awarded the 2006 Crafoord Prize -- New on the PAGES bookshelf -- National Page -- United Kingdom -- Program News -- IMAGES - The hydrological cycle and ocean temperature - A paleo-perspective -- RESOLuTION - Rapid climatic and environmental shifts during Oxygen Isotope Stage 2 and 3 -- Special Section: Past Human Climate Ecosystem Interactions -- Program News -- PHAROS - Past Human- Climate Ecosystem Interactions -- IHOPE - Integrated History and future Of People on Earth -- Science Highlights -- The desiccation of southern Africa's Okavango Delta -- The sensitivity of wetlands in SE Australia to climate and catchment changes -- The rise and fall of atmospheric pollution: The paleolimnological perspective -- Reconstruction of Holocene land-use and sediment budgets in the Rhine -- Global and regional reconstruction of Holocene vegetation, fire and land-use -- The challenge of reconstructing human impact on large river systems -- A meta-database for recent paleolimnological studies -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- MIS 11 rocks! The "smoking gun" of a catastrophic +20 m eustatic sea-level rise -- Workshop Reports -- Establishing a northern Eurasian paleoecological database -- Fire Central African PAGES Workshop -- Maritime Connectivity Symposium -- Circum-Iberia paleoceanography and paleoclimate -- Salinity, climate change and salinization: LIMPACS Workshop
PAGES News, Volume 14, No. 3, December 2006

Irka Hajdas, Christoph Kull, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Editorial: 14C-Chronology -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES bookshelf -- Program News -- The Millennium project: European climate of the last millennium -- Paleoenvironments in south India: Monsoon records from rainfed reservoirs -- Science Highlights: 14C - Chronology -- Cosmogenic isotope 14C: Production and carbon cycle -- Assuring measurement quality: The international 14C laboratory inter-comparison -- IntCal and the future of radiocarbon calibration --- The potential for extending Intcal04 using OIS-3 New Zealand sub-fossil Kauri -- Marine reservoir corrections and the calibration curve -- New approaches to constructing age models:OxCal4 -- 21st century suck-in or smear: Testing the timing of events between archives -- High resolution radiocarbon chronologies and synchronization of records -- Marine 14C reservoir ages oscillate -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- Are insolation and sunspot activity the primary drivers of Holocene glacier fluctuations? -- Holocene trends in tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation -- Long term climatic variations in central Asia and the deVries solar cycle -- Workshop Reports -- Regional climate variations in south America over the late Holocene -- Past hurricanes -- The 8.2 kyr event -- Ocean acidification - modern obersvations and past experiences -- Unexplored sources of high resolution data in historic time
PAGES News, Volume 14, No. 2, August 2006

Julie Brigham-Grette, Christoph Kull, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Editorial: U.S. Earth System History Program - Inside PAGES -- PAGES-LOTRED-SA Meeting in Argentina -- Program News DAYACLIM: A Sahara climate program -- National Page -- Indonesia -- ESH Science Highlights -- East Pacific production during the last deglaciation -- Holocene IRD in the North Atlantic -- Dendrochronology and the Asian Monsoon -- Tropical Pacific climate, solar forcing and the last millennium -- The mystery interval 17.5 - 14.5 kyr ago -- South America Monsoon and the LGM -- U.S. lake drilling projects -- Post glacial oaks in North America -- Consolidating high and low frequency information for climate reconstructions -- Models and abrupt climate change -- Late Holocene hydrologic variability in North America peatlands -- Science Highlights (open section) -- San Valentin Glacier ice core (Chile) -- Holocene climate change (Yemen) -- Climate and human evolution (Africa) -- Surface temperatures over the past two millennia -- Workshop Reports HOLIVAR open science meeting - UK -- PAGES/CLIVAR workshop - Switzerland -- ICDP workshop PASADO - Argentina -- Climate change challenge - Sweden -- LUCIFS workshop - Germany -- Ocean-Land INQUA workshop - Spain -- Indonesian throughflow - Germany -- Last Page -- Calendar -- New on the PAGES bookshelf
PAGES News, Volume 14, No. 1, April 2006

Hubertus Fischer, Christoph Kull, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Editorial: The future of ice core research -- Inside PAGES -- New on the bookshelf -- Tales from the field -- In memory of Nick Shackleton -- Programs News -- The IPICS Initiative -- New sea-floor drilling equipment -- Relaunch of the PAGES Databoard -- National Page -- Chile -- Science Highlights -- NGT and PARCA ice cores - Greenland -- NorthGRIP ice core - Greenland -- Reconstructions from Alpine ice cores -- Tropical ice cores from the Andes -- Dating of ice cores -- Coastal ice cores - Antarctica -- WAIS Divide ice core - Antarctica -- ITASE project - Antarctica -- New Dome Fuji ice core - Antarctica -- Vostok ice drilling project - Antarctica -- EPICA ice cores - Antarctica -- 425 year precipitation history from Italy -- Sea-level changes: Black and Caspian Seas -- Quaternary climate change in Arabia -- Workshop Reports -- 2nd Southern Deserts Conference - Chile -- Climate change and tree rings - Russia -- Global climate during MIS 11 - Greece -- Last Page -- Calendar -- PAGES Guest Scientist Program
PAGES News, Volume 13, No. 2

Pinxian Wang, Yucheng Chai, and Zhengtang Guo

Contents: Editorial: PAGES in China -- Inside PAGES -- New on the bookshelf -- Program News -- Intimate -- Regional Variability South America -- National Page -- China -- Science Highlights -- Holocene Climatic Variability -- Record of Past Mu Us Desert Expansion -- Changes in Soil Carbon Storage - China -- Cycles in the Ocean Carbon Reservoir -- Precipitation History from Qilian Juniper -- Stalagmite Isotopes and NH-Temperature -- A CH4 Record from a Himalayan Ice Core -- Climate Reconstructions from Coral Reefs -- Chinese Documentary Data - Synthesis -- What Drives the Climate: Man or Nature? -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene Catastrophes-Argentina -- Exposed Continental Shelves - Honk Kong -- Last Page -- Calendar -- PAGES Guest Scientist Program
PAGES News, Volume 13, No. 1, April 2005

Christoph Kull, Leah Christen, and Thorsten Kiefer

Contents: Editorial: Future PAGES -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf: PEP III -- Tales from the Field -- In Memory of Geoffrey O. Seltzer -- Program News -- IGBP Phase II and PAGES -- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection -- Recoring Lynch's Crater (Australia) -- National Page -- Japan -- Science Highlights -- Radiocarbon in Tree Rings -- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene Fluvial Record from Northern Tunisia -- Paleoclimate and Fossil Woods in Tropical India -- An Upwelling Seesaw in the Atlantic -- Why Study Past Regional Variability? -- Workshop Reports -- Chapman Conference - USA -- Swiss HITE Workshop - Switzerland -- Focus 5 Gordon Conference - USA -- Last Page -- Calendar -- Upcoming PAGES OSM Meeting Beijing
PAGES News, Volume 13, No. 3, March 2005

Valerie Masson-Delmotte and Jurg Beer

Contents: CLIVAR/PAGES Intersection Panel: Understanding natural climate variability through integrating the climate dynamics and paleoclimate communities -- Editorial -- Paleoreconstruction of volcanic history inferred from glacio-chemical ice core analyses-- Secular variability and 2-- year diploar oscillations in an atmospheric circulation over East Antarctica during the Holocene -- Climate response to major volcanic eruptions -- Radiative forcing and the ice core greenhouse gas record -- Solar forcing of climate change: Current status -- Aerosol effects on clouds and climate -- Mineral dust records from Greenland ice cores -- A new insight into the climatic impact of volcanic explosion: A less from the sulfure stable isotopes -- Land-surface changes: feedbacks and climate forcing -- MedCLIVAR: Mediterranean Climate VARiability and predictability project -- Inside PAGES: -- LOTRED-SA Long-Term REconstruction and Dynamics of (southern) South America: A collaborative, high-resolution multi-proxy approach -- From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: Climate of the last 1,000 years -- PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting - Beijing, China - 10 - 12 August 2005 -- New Book -- PAGES Calendar -- News from CLIVAR -- Report of the International Repeat Hydrography Workshop -- Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data -- Report of the CLIVAR/OOPC/GOOS/Argo/CPPS Workshop on the South Pacific -- CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel: 7th session
PAGES News, Volume 12, No. 3, December 2004

Valerie Hall and Brent Alloway

Contents: Editorial: Tephra -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- National Page -- Kenya -- Science Highlights -- Dating Polynesian Settlement with Tephra -- Onshore-Offshore Tephra Correlations -- Tephra and Greenland Ice Cores -- Tephra Geochemistry-Analyzing Single Volcanic Events -- LGM Sea-Level Reconstructions -- Developing Regional Tephrachronological Frameworks -- Workshop Reports -- 8th ICP Conference - France -- HOLIVAR Workshop - Switzerland -- Last Page -- Calendar -- National PAGES