Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0989969

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0989969

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Environmental change in northern Cenozoic Australia: a multidisciplinary approach. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that by 2020 to 2050, Australia will suffer significant biodiversity loss and water shortages. Our research will document and date the evolution of Australia's biota through three cycles of climate change over the last 25 million years to quantify and thereby better anticipate the nature and dimension of threats facing our natural and cultural communities. We will develop innovative techniques to date prehistoric biotic and climatic events and, using a range of tracers, characterize ancient environments and groundwater. This project will assist rural and regional Australia through education and job creation in geotourism and natural resource interpretation and provide a mechanism to combat generational skill shortage.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 23-06-2009

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $900,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Conservation And Biodiversity | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Palaeontology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmental education and awareness | Climate change |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental education and awareness | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geology | Palaeontology | Understanding Australia'S Past

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