Testing New Paradigms: The Sea Level Record of Past Interglacials

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-2）资助的。该奖项将支持一位年轻的研究人员，他将对气候变化的一个重要方面采用新的方法，即，建立过去海平面的定量估计，与晚更新世的海平面高点有关。PI将联合收割机结合详细的地层学方法和对来自各个地层单位的大量样品的分析。这将延长PI？他利用巴巴多斯岛的隆起珊瑚研究了过去间冰期的海平面。U-Th测年技术的改进将使测年技术得到改进，并能够区分以前无法获得的间冰期海平面记录的特征。更广泛的影响包括使用过去的间冰期海平面记录来模拟未来的气候变化。还包括对研究生和本科生培训的支持。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-2). The award will support a young investigator who will apply a new approach to an important aspect of climate change, i.e., establishing quantitative estimates of past sea levels, associated with sea-level highstands of the late Pleistocene. The PI will combine a detailed stratigraphic approach with the analysis of a very large number of samples from individual stratigraphic units. This will extend The PI?s work on past interglacial sea levels using uplifted reef corals from Barbados. Refinements in U-Th dating techniques will enable improved age-dating and to distinguish features of the interglacial sea-level record not attainable earlier. Broader impacts include the use of past interglacial sea-level records in modeling climate change for the future. Support of a graduate student and undergraduate training is also included.