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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP200100203
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Reconstructing Australia’s fire history from cave stalagmites. Fire represents a major natural hazard, and its impact on Australian communities and ecosystems is increasing. Representing a world first, this project aims to calibrate the paleofire signal from stalagmites in shallow caves, and to construct annually resolved stalagmite records of paleofire frequency and intensity for the last millennia. The project aims to use stalagmites from south west Australia to determine the relationship between fire and climate and assess the robustness of stalagmite hydroclimate proxies in fire-prone regions. This project expects to establish a new research field for speleothem science, enhancing capacity for the Australian Quaternary and speleothem research communities, as well as benefits to land managers.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2020
End Date: 07-2024
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $472,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Quaternary Environments | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Natural Hazards in Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) |
