Testing New Paradigms: The Sea Level Record of Past Interglacials

测试新范式：过去间冰期的海平面记录

• 批准号: 0902849
• 负责人: William Thompson
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0902849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Testing; New; Paradigms; Sea; Level

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.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-2)提供资金的。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，即建立与晚更新世海平面高位有关的过去海平面的定量估计。PI将结合详细的地层学方法和对来自各个地层单位的大量样本的分析。这将是皮奥多·S利用巴巴多斯抬升的珊瑚礁研究过去间冰期海平面的工作的延伸。U-Th测年技术的改进将使年龄测定得到改进，并区分早些时候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。