Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2001/01106
High-resolution holocene ocean and climate change from the east Antarctic margin.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr J Pike, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Marine
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Ocean Circulation
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Palaeoenvironments
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Antarctica plays a major role in global ocean and atmosphere circulation as one side of the oceanic thermohaline bipolar seesaw that regulates glacial-interglacial cycles. Continental shelves of East Antarctica are of great importance to this mechanism. This project aims to investigate the Holocene climate record from East Antarctica using a suite of laminated sediment cores recovered from the most sensitive regions on the shelf to climate change. SEM-led analyses will provide high-resolution data to elucidate the history of the East Antarctic margin in terms of sedimentation-ice margin interactions, diatom production and strength of upwelling at the Antarctic Divergence. Past ocean/climate cyclicity around East Antarctica will be used to study circum-Antarctic and inter-hemispheric linkages between proxy climate records.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2001/01106
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £167,389
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £98,173 | £6,651 | £17,405 | £45,160 |
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