Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Seasonality on Benthic Foraminifers as Paleoenvironmental Proxies.

合作研究：测试季节性对底栖有孔虫作为古环境指标的影响。

• 批准号: 0635531
• 负责人: Scott Ishman
• 金额: $ 8.54万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0635531&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Testing; Impact; Seasonality

This project studies seasonal variation in the abundance and shell composition of foraminifera from the northern Gerlache-southern Bransfield Straits region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Its goal is to improve interpretation of microfaunal and geochemical proxies for reconstruction of ancient ocean currents, climate, and ecologies. Since seasonal variation may greatly affect interpretation, this project focuses on the Antarctic region, where intense seasonality should generate a more obvious signal than at the less extreme mid-latitudes. The results should allow a better understanding of the coupling to seasonal productivity, as well as improve regional reconstructions.The broader impacts are graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral student education; as well as outreach to both the English and Spanish-speaking public. The work will also improve society's understanding of past climate change as an analogue to the future.

该项目研究了南极半岛西部杰拉什北部-布兰斯菲尔德海峡南部地区有孔虫丰度和贝壳组成的季节变化。其目标是改善对微型动物和地球化学指标的解释，以重建古代洋流、气候和生态。由于季节变化可能会极大地影响解释，因此该项目重点关注南极地区，那里强烈的季节性应该比不太极端的中纬度地区产生更明显的信号。研究结果应该有助于更好地理解与季节性生产力的耦合，并改善区域重建。更广泛的影响是研究生、本科生和博士后教育；以及对英语和西班牙语公众的宣传。这项工作还将提高社会对过去气候变化与未来气候变化的理解。