Thank you Patricia for the kind words, and yes agree that it brings
great recognition in what CETAF can do and demonstrate how the WG's can
collaborate.

Best

Laura

On 2024-05-31 16:47, Patricia Mergen wrote:
> That's great news, to highlight to our members as soon as it is public
> to show how CETAF can channel such successes.
>
> Thanks for all your efforts. Also a nice collaboration between a WG
> and the EPAG.
>
> Have a nice time off
>
> Pat
>
> Op vr 31 mei 2024 om 16:22 schreef <laura.tilley@cetaf.org>:
>
>> Dear ESG members,
>>
>> This message is for internal circulation only, since the office
>> grant agreement has not been signed yet, there is still some process
>> to go. But it is great news!
>>
>> Thanks to the efforts of the CETAF Earth Science Group and General
>> Secretariat, CETAF will join this exciting endeavor led by the
>> University of Utrecht.
>>
>> The CETAF Secretariat received this fantastic news yesterday (30th
>> May) via an unexpected email from the EU Commission Portal. It
>> continues the high note from the successful CETAF 55 meeting in
>> Oslo. The Past-to-Future (P2F) project will be a very impactful
>> project in addressing future climate projections and impacts by
>> studying the Paleoclimate record. It brings together 24 cutting-edge
>> Universities and Research institutions, including our members LUMOUS
>> and Senkenberg, in the realms of paleoclimate modeling and data
>> analysis (e.g. ice cores, geochemistry, palynology, paleobotany and
>> anthropology). More specifically, the overarching goal of the
>> project will be “to create a framework that uses new knowledge of
>> past climatic conditions to project future climate change on
>> spatio-temporal scales relevant for societies, ecosystems and the
>> planet as a whole, and to advance our ability to understand and
>> anticipate the main climatic and societal impacts of the ongoing
>> climate crisis”. What makes the project special is that it will
>> heavily rely on compiling high resolution and well dated climate
>> data from existing geological/paleontology archives rather than
>> collecting new material, and will focus on geological time periods
>> with boundary conditions that resemble present day (e.g. geography,
>> biosphere), but represent times of climate variability
>> (glacial-interglacial cycles), orbital variability, abrupt change
>> and CO2 levels outside those of current. It will also bring together
>> the work of paleoclimate modelers and data providers more closely to
>> unravel result discrepancies between the two approaches when
>> reconstructing past climate and predicting future scenarios.
>>
>> I am extremely proud of the efforts of Earth Science Group and the
>> support of the General Secretariat in being a part of this new
>> project and community. CETAF, through the University of
>> Helsinki/Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUMOUS), will be
>> involved in providing a Synthesis of emerging and existing Northern
>> Fennoscandian tree-ring proxies for the last 7500 years’ and the
>> CETAF Secretariat  will be involved in the Communication and
>> Dissemination work package. For the CETAF Earth Science group, it
>> will be a great opportunity in showcasing how Earth Science
>> Collection’s and expertise can play a  role in understanding and
>> tackling global challenges like climate change. Furthermore, this
>> achievement demonstrates that if the community is committed to
>> participating in such funded endeavours, it can be accomplished with
>> effort and determination, supported by a capable and effective
>> Secretariat. There are still some passages to be cleared before we
>> are 100% sure the proposal will get the funding, but the high score
>> (14,5/15) makes us optimistic.  If successful, indeed, the proposal
>> will be financed with almost 15 million Euros, under the Horizon
>> Europe CL5.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> P.S. I will be out of office from the 3rd – 14th June.
>>
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