Our Oceanography and Climate Change (OC2) research group made a remarkable impact at one of the most prestigious international events in climate science – the 2025 Past Global Changes (PAGES) Open Science Meeting (OSM) and Young Scientists Meeting (YSM), held in Shanghai, China.
PAGES brings together researchers from around the world to better understand how Earth’s climate has changed through time - knowledge that is crucial to understanding today’s challenges. The OSM and YSM, held every four years, are PAGES’ flagship events, and this year’s edition was hosted by Tongji University.
OC2’s involvement was visible from the start. Team members Lélia Matos, Isabelle Gil, and Nazik Ogretmen played key roles in organizing two scientific sessions focused on ocean circulation and new tools for reconstructing past climates. During the meetings, the group presented a total of four talks and six posters across six different sessions - an impressive contribution to the event’s scientific program.
The OC2 team’s early-career researchers — Coralie Zorzi, Giulia Molina, and Mónica Duque Castaño — were also selected to attend the Young Scientists Meeting, a space designed to empower the next generation of climate scientists. Over two days, they presented their work through posters and flash talks, and joined dynamic discussions on professional challenges, including how to navigate impostor syndrome and identify new opportunities in the field.
Beyond the shared science, the event fostered international collaboration, critical feedback, and new partnerships — essential ingredients for advancing global climate and ocean research.
Take a look at the gallery and get to know our researchers and their work:
Coralie Zorzi presenting at the 7th OSM - Credit - PAGES OSM 2025 LOC
Giulia Molina presenting her poster at the 5th YSM
Giulia Molina presenting to a full room at the 7th OSM
Giulia, Mónica and Coralie at the 5th YSM
Lélia Matos presenting her poster at the 7th OSM
Lívia Gebara Cordeiro presenting at the 7th OSM
Mónica Duque-Castaño presenting her poster at the 7th OSM
Participants of session 27 convened on site by Lélia Matos
Teresa Rodrigues presenting at the 7th OSM
Dulce Oliveira presenting her poster at the 7th OSM
OC2 group participants at the PAGES 7th OSM
Coralie Zorzi - Researcher - Presented a talk on: Orbital variability and climatic drivers modulating the East and South Asian monsoons during the last 70 krys: New insights from the Korean vegetation
Dulce Oliveira - Researcher - Presented two posters: (1) Complex interplay of forcings drives Indian vegetation and summer monsoon variability during MIS 11; (2) Indian hydroclimate and vegetation during glacial MIS 16: Disentangling high- and low-latitude forcings
Giulia Molina - PhD student - presented a talk on: Multiproxy reconstructions for bottom water oxygenation dynamics in the Gulf of Cadiz during Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition
Lélia Matos - Researcher - Atlantic intermediate circulation and heat transfer during the last glacial period: A cold-water coral record (poster)
Lívia Gebara Cordeiro - Researcher - Presented a talk on: What lipid biomarkers and sedaDNA signatures tell us about the marine primary production variations on the Iberian Margin over the last millennium?
Mónica Duque-Castaño - PhD student - Presented a poster on: Planktonic foraminifera and temperature records highlight climate changes on the southern Portuguese margin during the Early-to-Middle Pleistocene (1.54-0.75 Ma)
Nazik Ogretmen - Researcher - Presented a poster on: Best practice to extract Na/Ca data from epibenthic foraminifers for paleoceanographic reconstructions – a cleaning reagent comparison
Teresa Rodrigues - Researcher - Presented a talk on: North Atlantic SST Gradients and their Influence on Hydroclimate Shifts (poster); The shift to the 100-kyr world: Insights from 1.5 Ma Iberian margin SST record
