U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research: High Resolution Paleoceanographic Records in Laminated Sediments, Gulf of California, Mexico

9908773道格拉斯这一美国-墨西哥奖项将支持南加州大学的罗伯特·道格拉斯教授和唐恩·戈尔斯莱恩与CICIMAR/IPN的Enrique Nava-Sanchez博士和Janette Murillo-Jimenez博士以及墨西哥国立自治大学的Adolfo Monia-Cruz博士合作进行研究。研究人员打算在其他研究人员和南加州大学团队之前工作的基础上，检查保存在加利福尼亚州西部从圣罗萨利亚南部到拉巴斯的斜坡和边缘盆地中保存的沉积物沉积中记录的每年到千年的周期。这项研究倡议源于过去20年来对全球气候变化的日益增长的兴趣和对这种变化的高分辨率记录的寻找。通过研究生产力或水团特征和位置的变化，调查者旨在确定主要生产力梯度之后整个墨西哥湾和墨西哥湾轴线上的主要因素的影响。这些记录对于确定海洋-气候相互作用的变化和测试气候预测模型至关重要。除了研究人员之间的协作工作外，该项目还将支持来自墨西哥和美国的学生的论文和论文工作。

9908773DouglasThis US-Mexico award will support Professor Robert Douglas and Donn Gorsline of the University of Southern California (USC) in a research collaboration with Drs. Enrique Nava-Sanchez and Janette Murillo-Jimenez at CICIMAR/IPN and Dr. Adolfo Monia-Cruz at the National Autonoma University of Mexico. The researchers intend to build on previous work by other investigators and the group at USC to examine annual to millennial cycles recorded in dysaerobic to anaerobic sediment deposits preserved in slope and margin basins of the western Gulf of California from Santa Rosalia south to La Paz. This research initiative arises from the increasing interest of the past two decades in global climate change and the search for high-resolution records of such changes.By studying change in productivity or in water mass characteristics and position, the investigator aims to define the effects of the major factors both across the Gulf and along the Gulf axis following the major productivity gradients. These records are critical in defining the variations in ocean-climate interactive and to test models for climate prediction. In addition to the collaborative work between the investigators, this project will support thesis and dissertation work by students from Mexico and the United States.***