Advancing community-led research into the climate of the Common Era
- 1Past Global Changes, Bern, Switzerland (sarah.eggleston@gmail.com)
- 2Ikigai Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- 3Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- 4University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- 5Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain
- 6University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 7Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
- 8The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- 9University of Minnesota, Department of Geography, Minneapolis, MN, United States
The past two thousand years is a key interval for climate science. This period encompasses both the era of human-induced global warming and a much longer interval when changes in Earth’s climate were governed principally by natural drivers and unforced variability. Since 2009, the Past Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Network has brought together hundreds of scientists from around the world to reconstruct and understand the climate of the Common Era using open and collaborative approaches to palaeoclimate science, including virtual meetings. The third phase of the network will end in December 2021. Here we highlight some key outputs of PAGES 2k and present the major themes and scientific questions emerging from recent surveys of the community. We explore how these might boost a new phase of PAGES 2k or a successor project(s). This year we will further reach out to the community through Town Hall consultations, vEGU and other meetings, and a PAGES 2k global webinar series. The aim of these activities is to foster development of post-2021 community-led PAGES initiatives that connect past and present climate.
How to cite: Eggleston, S. S., Phipps, S., Bothe, O., McGregor, H. V., Martrat, B., Linderholm, H., Konecky, B., Abram, N., and St. George, S.: Advancing community-led research into the climate of the Common Era, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10979, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10979, 2021.
