EAR-PF: Insect Damage on Leaves Through the Cenozoic in East Africa: The Impact of Geologic and Climatic Change at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales

EAR-PF：东非新生代昆虫对叶子的损害：多时空尺度的地质和气候变化的影响

• 批准号: 0814115
• 负责人: Ellen Currano
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Currano Ellen D
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0814115&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAR; PF; Insect; Damage; Leaves

Dr. Ellen Currano is awarded an NSF Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Currano will study the co-evolution of plants and herbivorous insects in the African tropics during the Cenozoic. The research goals will be accomplished by examining the extent of damage caused by insects in fossil leaves. The fossil samples will be collected from two localities in northwestern Ethiopia that represent the Late Oligocene period (28 to 23 million years ago). The information from the fossil record will be compared with modern leaves to understand how the plant-insect interactions were affected by physical processes like droughts. In addition, Dr. Currano will contribute to the education of two different audiences. First, undergraduate students, from America and Africa, will assist in the collection of samples in Ethiopia. Second, a lesson plan on paleo-botany for 8th grade will be developed and distributed to school teachers in Texas.

Ellen Currano 博士获得美国国家科学基金会地球科学博士后奖学金，在南卫理公会大学开展研究和教育项目。 Currano 博士将研究非洲热带地区新生代植物和食草昆虫的共同进化。研究目标将通过检查昆虫对叶子化石造成的损害程度来实现。化石样本将从埃塞俄比亚西北部的两个代表渐新世晚期（28 至 2300 万年前）的地点采集。 化石记录中的信息将与现代叶子进行比较，以了解干旱等物理过程如何影响植物与昆虫的相互作用。此外，库拉诺博士还将为两种不同受众的教育做出贡献。首先，来自美洲和非洲的本科生将协助埃塞俄比亚采集样本。其次，将制定八年级古植物学课程计划并将其分发给德克萨斯州的学校教师。