Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2002/00268
Processes controlling the proxy shell chemistry of planktonic foraminifera.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor EJ Rohling, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr C German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Geology and Geophysics
- Grant held at:
- University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Palaeobiology
- Quaternary Science
- Palaeoenvironments
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Verifiable quantitative reconstructions form the ultimate goal in palaeoenvironmental studies. Foraminiferal shell chemistry proxies hold great potential for the marine domain, but - to deliver - must account for the often ignored influences of ecological processes that confuse the signals of actual environmental change. We propose an unprecedented high (~15 year) resolution case study that quantifies such ecological overprints by characterising all major niches in a past planktonic foraminiferal ecosystem. It concerns a whole-fauna stable O&C-isotope investigation of a unique, laminated Mediterranean anoxic sapropel (S5; 124-119 ka). Parallel Mg/Ca and B-isotope profiles, together with alkenone analyses and foraminiferal census counts, will constrain temperature/alkalinity effects on isotope fractionation and offer complementary ecological insight.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2002/00268
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £22,672
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|
| £1,316 | £21,355 |
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