Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B502944/1
Spatial and temporal palaeoclimatic records from Late Quaternary speleothems in Iran.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor J Andrews, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Kendall, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PF Dennis, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor A Baker, University of New South Wales, Sch of Biol, Earth & Env Sciences (BEES)
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr RC Preece, University of Cambridge, Zoology
- Grant held at:
- University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Quaternary Science
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- We intend to recover quantitative information on the past variability of climate from an area of the Middle East that constitutes a geographic link between two contrasting climatic regions: the Atlantic-dominated Eastern Mediterranean and the Monsoonal-dominated Southern Arabian Peninsular. We hope to recover this information for the past 200-300 thousand years. We do this by measuring changes in a range of physical and chemical parameters that respond to climatic events, such as temperature and relative wetness/dryness, in cave deposits such as stalactites and stalagmites. We use these deposits not only because of their ability to record changes, but also because we can date them, using chemical techniques, very accurately. The limestone Zagros mountains on the western side of Iran contain numerous caves and we intend to sample the cave deposits along a north-south transect from the Turkish border to the Straits of Hormuz. The climatic information we recover will inform us, not only about the way climate has varied in the past, and the relative influence of the various climatic systems, but also give us important clues about possible future changes. For example, current aridity in the region is unprecedented in modern times. However, it is possible this type of event has happened before, in the recent geological past. The records we produce might thus be used to predict the likely length and magnitude of climatic events such as aridity that have a huge impact on human agriculture and water supply.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B502944/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £279,502
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £11,416 | £145,221 | £56,064 | £66,801 |
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