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博士被授予NSF地球科学博士后研究金，以在南方卫理公会大学进行研究和教育计划。 Currano博士将研究库综合学期间非洲热带地区植物和草食昆虫的共同进化。研究目标将通过检查化石叶中昆虫造成的损害程度来实现。化石样品将从埃塞俄比亚西北部的两个地区收集，这些地区代表了渐新世晚期（28至2300万年前）。 从化石记录中的信息将与现代叶子进行比较，以了解植物渗透的相互作用如何受到干旱等物理过程的影响。此外，Currano博士将为两种不同受众的教育做出贡献。首先，来自美国和非洲的本科生将协助在埃塞俄比亚收集样品。其次，将制定关于8年级古植物的课程计划，并分发给德克萨斯州的学校教师。