U.S.-Chile Program Planning Visit: Neogene Climate-driven Changes in the Terrestrial and Marine Paleoenvironments of Western South America

0520939 Anderson这个规划访问奖将支持南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校的Ken B.Anderson博士和Scott E.Ishman博士与康塞普西翁大学的Sonia Helle教授和Guillermo Alfaro教授会面，讨论一个拟议的项目，采用创新的方法调查新近纪气候变化，将海洋沉积物的微古生物学调查与陆地沉积物的有机地球化学分析相结合。由于德雷克航道(在合恩角和南极洲之间)的开放产生了交错的海洋和有机陆地沉积物，跨越了该地区据信经历了重大气候变化的时间段，因此该研究区域非常适合进行这项调查。Helle和Alfaro教授对该项目主要涉及的海洋和沉积物序列具有广泛的经验和知识。他们与正在开采的地雷建立了关系，并与其他具有马格兰盆地及周边地区经验的智利地球科学专业人员进行了现有的合作。

0520939AndersonThis planning visit award will support Dr. Ken B. Anderson and Scott E. Ishman, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, to meet with counterparts, Prof. Sonia Helle and Prof. Guillermo Alfaro at the Universidad de Concepcion, on a proposed project to employ an innovative approach to investigating Neogene climate change, combining micropaleontological investigations of marine sediments with organic geochemical analyses of terrestrial sediments. This study area is uniquely suited for this investigation due to the presence of interleaved marine and organic terrestrial sediments arising from the opening of the Drake Passage (between Cape Horn and Antarctica), spanning the time period over which the region is believed to have undergone major climatic changes.Professors Helle and Alfaro have extensive experience with and knowledge of thecoal and sediment sequences with which this project is chiefly concerned. They haveestablished relationships with, and access to working mines, and existing collaborations with other Chilean earth science professionals with experience of the Magallanes Basin and surrounding areas.