Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/Z000270/1
From salt to sea, how does life recolonize a marine basin?
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor DN Schmidt, University of Bristol, Faculty of Science
- Grant held at:
- University of Bristol, Faculty of Science
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Atmospheric carbon cycle
- Deep ocean circulation
- Ecosystem impacts
- Isotopic record
- Marine ecosystem services
- Ocean acidification
- Ocean atmosphere interaction
- Ocean drilling
- Palaeoclimate observation
- Regional climate
- Sea level rise
- Sea surface temperature
- Surface ocean circulation
- Climate & Climate Change
- Anoxic events
- Cenozoic climate change
- Climate change
- Dating - isotopic
- Deep water circulation
- Evolutionary history
- Fossil record
- Marine carbonates
- Marine sediments
- Mass extinctions
- Ocean acidification
- Ocean drilling
- Palaeo proxies
- Palaeoclimatology
- Palaeoecology
- Sea level history
- Palaeoenvironments
- Anoxic events
- Biodiversity
- Carbon cycling
- Coastal margins
- Isotopic analysis
- Marine sediments
- Primary production
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Carbon cycle
- Meridional circulation
- Ocean circulation
- Particulate organics
- Phytoplankton
- Shelf ocean dynamics
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Benthic foraminifera
- Carbon cycle
- Climate transitions
- Data assimilation
- Deep ocean circulation
- Marine biogeochemistry
- Marine carbonates
- Ocean drilling
- Organic matter
- Palaeo-ocean circulation
- Sea level
- Sedimentary record
- Shelf ocean dynamics
- Ocean Circulation
- Abstract:
- During shipboard operations whilst sailing on IODP Expedition 398 in the Aegean Sea, a complete section of the transition from the Miocene to the Pliocene was recovered. This interval marks the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the time when closure of the Gibraltar Strait may have caused much of the Mediterranean Sea to become drawn down and inhospitable to many aquatic organisms. Not only is this the first sediment core recovered from the Messinian Salinity Crisis since 1996, but it also the most complete record ever recovered in all 55 years of scientific ocean drilling. To investigate this interval, I propose to acquire funding from IODP to perform preliminary analyses at the University of Bristol. These sediments and the fossil remains they contain represent a unique opportunity to study the ecological response of marine communities within an ecosystem transitioning back to fully marine. The study has implications not only for understanding the potential effects of future climate change as marine environments become more hostile, but also for analogues of ancient Earth scenarios when marine ecosystems exhibited a significantly different chemical state to the modern ocean.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/Z000270/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Start Confirmation
- Scheme:
- Directed (RP) - NR1
- Grant Status:
- Accepted
- Programme:
- UK IODP Phase4
This grant award has a total value of £25,426
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Estate Costs | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,264 | £11,492 | £9,300 | £3,275 | £95 |
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