Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0345625

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0345625

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Impact of Changing Climatic Conditions inferred from the Isotope Abundances of Trace Metals in Global Ice Sheets and Glaciers. In this project Greenland and Antarctic ice-cores more than 3 km long will be used to investigate climatic variation extending back more that 4 complete glacial cycles. Some of these ice-cores include sections of refrozen water formed from sub-glacial Antarctic lake water. This project will use naturally occurring lead and strontium isotopic tracers to fingerprint impurities in the ice, because they have the potential to simultaneously signal the timing and location of past episodes of climate change. This will lead to an improvement in our understanding of the processes that cause these changes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 10-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $575,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Analytical Spectrometry | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Glaciology | Geochemistry |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Other

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