The eight OSM poster sessions are organized into groups based on PAGES science structure. Each of the poster sessions covers science highlighted by one Focus or one Cross Cutting Theme (CCT).

Foci sessions will be further sub-divided into clusters based on Foci Themes and Working Groups. Anyone interested in suggesting a poster cluster should contact Thorsten Kiefer.

Poster Session 1 & 2 – Wednesday, 8 July

Session 1: Climate Forcings (PAGES Focus 1)
This session invites contributions towards a quantitative understanding of the nature, causes and impacts of variations in climate forcings, including primary and secondary as well as natural and anthropogenic (e.g., including solar insolation and irradiance intensity, volcanic activity, land cover, sea ice, and greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations). Research presented in this session provides either improved, extended, and consistent time series of climate forcing parameters or concepts or model results on the causes and impacts of forcings and feedbacks.

Session 2: Chronology (PAGES CCT 1)
Chronology is crucial to paleoresearch and often constrains the strength of conclusions based on paleo-reconstructions. This session invites contributions that improve tools for absolute and relative dating, enhances the reliability of reference timescales, and explores creative new approaches to solving chronology issues.


Poster Session 3 & 4 – Thursday, 9 July

Session 3: Regional Climate Dynamics (PAGES Focus 2)
This session seeks contributions towards a better understanding of past regional climatic and environmental dynamics, modes of climate variability and teleconnections between regions. Studies presented in this session provide high-resolution, well-dated records of paleoenvironmental change and climatic extremes, regional to global-scale reconstructions of climate-state parameters (e.g., temperature, precipitation, atmospheric pressure fields), and regional-scale simulations of past changes. The timescales covered encompass the last 130 kyr, in particular the last glacial-interglacial cycle, the Holocene, and the last 2 kyr.

Session 4: Proxy Development, Calibration & Validation (PAGES CCT 2)
This session invites contributions that improve the precision and accuracy of paleo-proxies as a basis for high-quality records and reconstructions of past global change to complement instrumental data. It includes efforts on proxy interpretation and development, analytical innovation, inter-laboratory comparisons, and calibration refinement, which lead to uncertainty reduction in proxy-based reconstructions.


Poster Session 5 & 6 – Friday, 10 July

Session 5: Global-Scale Earth System Dynamics (PAGES Focus 3)
This session looks at interactions between components of the Earth System (atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere) and at the links between regional- and global-scale changes. It addresses the processes underlying global-scale changes, including the response to changes in forcings, internal feedbacks and teleconnections. Activities aim to synthesize records of the hydrological cycle, ocean biogeochemistry, interglacial variability or major rapid climate change at a global scale.

Session 6: Modeling (PAGES CCT 3)
Numerical models provide a comprehensive framework for exploring couplings and feedbacks between the various components of the Earth System, and as such, modeling is a key element in paleoresearch. This session hosts efforts that improve model components specific for paleoscientific applications, which are generally not as relevant to the communities developing Earth System models for future projections.


Poster Session 7 & 8 – Saturday, 11 July

Session 7: Human-Climate-Ecosystem (PAGES Focus 4)
This session addresses the long-term interactions among past climate conditions, ecological processes and human activities. It calls for data and modeling studies that aim to better understand the nature of these interactions, to quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change, and to examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system. Emphasis lies in comparing regional-scale studies of environmental and climatic processes using or combining computer models and natural archives, documentary and instrumental data.

Session 8: Data Management (PAGES CCT 4)
This session invites presentations on activities and institutions that support availability and access to paleoscience data, as well as creative ways for their scientifically fruitful utilization. Contributions can cover a wide range of topics, including database structures, data compilation projects, data visualization tools, etc.