Intermediate Water Corals as High-Resolution Climatic Archives from the California Margin

PI将尝试校准加利福尼亚近海250-2200米水深的竹珊瑚，目的是开发一个在十年到百年时间尺度上反映中间水性质变化的指标。这项工作将测试几个关于控制珊瑚地球化学的假设，这些假设将导致替代发展，以破译中等水深的环境变化。高分辨率古环境研究新的潜在替代物的开发、研究生和本科生暑期实习生的支持以及博物馆展品的开发被认为是重要的更广泛的影响。

The PI will attempt to calibrate bamboo corals from 250-2200 m water depth offshore California with the objective of developing a proxy for changes in the intermediate water properties on decadal to centennial time scales. The work will test several hypotheses about controls on coral geochemistry that will lead to proxy development for deciphering environmental changes in intermediate water depth. The development of a new potential proxy for high resolution paleoenvironmental studies, support of a graduate and undergraduate summer intern, and development of museum exhibits are considered important broader impacts.