Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0557499

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0557499

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Reconstruction of anoxic and toxic conditions in Australian lakes and ancient oceans. Sustainable water quality is a critically important issue for Australia's economic and social development. To be able to predict and plan the future of Australia's lakes and estuaries, it is crucial to understand their ecological past and to determine their state prior to and post-European settlement. This project develops and applies novel methodologies to reconstruct the history of cyanobacterial blooms, eutrophication and anoxia in Australian waterways. It will help to identify human impact on water quality. The new methodologies, applied to ancient sedimentary rocks, will also yield information about the effect of environmental changes on early life on Earth, enforcing Australia's position in the study of global geochemical cycles.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-03-2005

End Date: 31-12-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $665,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Geochemistry | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical and chemical conditions | Physical and chemical conditions | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Earth sciences | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) | Geochemistry | Organic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Palaeoecology | Physical and chemical conditions

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