Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1096184

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1096184

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Environmental stress indicators in coral skeletons. Coral reefs are critical for Australia's tourism and fisheries industries, cultural heritage and international conservation responsibilities. The proposed research will test and document two newly identified stress indicators in corals, one of which will allow stress to be documented by visual inspection on living reef flats. Both new techniques will allow documentation of historical records of stress events, thus improving understanding of reef dynamics through intervals of climate change, and importantly, they also may help detect 'early warning signs' of poor health in living reef corals. Thus, the research will inform both palaeoclimate studies and current reef management strategies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 30-06-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $120,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Sedimentology | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Geology | Sedimentology

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