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Published: Friday, 11 November 2016 10:22
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A workshop report from the first meeting of PAGES' Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society Working Group (VICS) working group was published yesterday in Eos.
"How Did Climate and Humans Respond to Past Volcanic Eruptions?" discusses how the strongest volcanic eruptions of the past are powerful test cases to predict and prepare for future climate change.
Access the workshop report here.
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Published: Tuesday, 01 November 2016 16:26
Paleoclimatology is a data-driven science, so being able to share your data, or re-use your colleague’s, is essential. Unfortunately, data standards are currently lacking - a study shows that searching and formatting data takes up to 80% of the time spent analyzing it. PAGES is pleased to collaborate on a grassroots effort to fix this and encourages your involvement.
The EarthCube-supported LinkedEarth project, which contributes to PAGES’ Data Stewardship initiative, is creating a publicly-accessible online database platform, curated by paleoclimate experts, to:
1. foster the development of community standards;
2. enable cutting-edge data-analytic tools to be built and applied to a wider array of datasets than ever before; and
3. support next-generation paleoclimate research.
A discussion about community data standards for paleoclimatology started in June 2016 at the Workshop on Paleoclimate Data Standards and is now continuing online via the LinkedEarth wiki. Interested members of the paleoclimate community are encouraged to join the discussion, participate in the associated polls, and be involved in data standard Working Groups (WGs), centered around paleoclimate archives such as sediment cores, trees, coral, speleothem, etc, in addition to cross-cutting topics like chronologies and uncertainties. The central idea of wikis is that “many hands make light work”, so even 15 minutes of your time can go a long way.
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