ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT180100524

Funded Activity Summary

Climate extremes and landscape responses across continental Australia. This project aims to determine the magnitude, frequency and duration of dry and wet extremes across the Australian continent over the last thousand years and examine landscape responses to such climate extremes. Using terrestrial records from key lake locations, the project expects to construct a record of mega-lakes and mega-droughts and determine whether such climatic phenomena are becoming more frequent or severe through time. The project will develop palaeoclimatic data at sub-centennial resolution, examining the spatial coherence of the climate extremes. The project will integrate this with both the historical record and global climate modelling, allowing us to assess the dominant oceanographic and atmospheric conditions that lead to such extremes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 04-02-2019

End Date: 03-02-2024

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $849,125.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoclimatology | Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution | Geochronology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Understanding Australia's Past | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) |

Other Keywords

Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Geochronology | Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution | Palaeoclimatology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Understanding Australia's Past

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