Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0451565

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0451565

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Drought, El Niño and Climate Change in Queensland over the last 200,000 years: the Lynch's Crater lake record. Lynch's Crater (Queensland) provides the longest, most sensitive terrestrial record of vegetation and climate change in the low altitude tropics. A multidisciplinary approach will exploit the potential of a core collected in 2003 through high-resolution multiproxy (sedimentology, geochemistry, stable and radiogenic isotopes, pollen, charcoal and diatoms) studies. The results will contribute substantially to the resolution of current debates on the role of the tropics in global climate forcing at a variety of temporal scales, including that of the El Niño phenomenon. The reconstruction of temperature and precipitation over the past 200,000 years will improve global climate databases and prediction models.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $245,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostratigraphy | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Palynology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Climate change | Global climate change adaptation measures

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