Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103567

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140103567

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bubble, Bubble CO2 is the trouble: A Natural Ocean Acidification Experiment in a coral reef setting. Carbon dioxide seep sites expose shallow coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to volcanic carbon dioxide resulting in gradients of seawater ranging from pH 8.0 (normal) to a more acidic pH of 7.5. Some areas of these reefs experience carbon dioxide exposure equivalent to IPCC predictions for 2050 and 2100. This project will reconstruct seawater pH using radiocarbon as a novel tracer of carbon dioxide input at a coral reef site that has been exposed to high carbon dioxide due to volcanic seeps (seep carbon dioxide has no carbon-14) for an unknown period of time (at least many decades, but possibly centuries). These results will help to understand the time it takes to change calcifying organisms into “winners” or “losers” as an analog for Ocean Acidification due to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide input.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Chemical Oceanography | Ecological Applications

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Marine Environments |

Other Keywords

Chemical Oceanography | Ecological Applications | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Marine Environments

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