Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2001/00885
The Holocene palaeoclimate record of eastern Newfoundland: developing a high-resolution terrestrial climatic response model from raised peat bogs.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor P Hughes, University of Southampton, School of Geography
- Grant held at:
- University of Southampton, School of Geography
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Palaeoenvironments
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- This research proposal aims to investigate the millennial-scale variability of the climate of eastern Newfoundland using high resolution records of plant macrofossils and testate amoebae from raised peat bogs. Newfoundland lies at the boundary between the Labrador current and the Gulf Stream and climate archives from this area are critical to the understanding of climate variability in the whole of the North Atlantic basin. Few palaeoclimatic records exist for Newfoundland, those that do exist are based on pollen data from lakes. The proposed project will address the lack of terrestrial evidence from Newfoundland by producing the first multi-proxy Climate archives from peat. The records will be compared with ocean sediment records and European terrestrial data sets to examine transatlantic climatic teleconnections and evidence of cyclic behaviour.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2001/00885
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,700
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £3,775 | £18,216 | £330 | £8,379 |
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