Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0770820

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0770820

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Southern Ocean nutrients and their links to climate change: insights from the isotope and elemental signature of diatoms and sponges. It is not possible to respond effectively to climate change and variability associated with increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide without understanding the role that marine phytoplankton play in the uptake and sequestering of carbon dioxide. The proposed research will lead to a greater understanding of how nutrients such as silica have limited phytoplankton growth, and ultimately the role the ocean plays in the sequestration of carbon dioxide over time. Such knowledge will benefit possible ocean-based carbon dioxide mitigation strategies, i.e. ocean fertilisation to stimulate ocean productivity and carbon dioxide drawdown.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2007

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $390,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Chemical Oceanography | Oceanography | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) |

Other Keywords

Chemical Oceanography | Climate change | Environmental Chemistry (Incl. Atmospheric Chemistry) | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Oceanography

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