SGER: The Chesapeake Bay Region's Response to Late-Cenozoic Isostatic Uplift, Subsidence, and Tectonism

该项目由探索性研究小额赠款（SGER）项目资助，是对波托马克河深古河谷海布拉河谷沉积岩芯的探索。这项调查旨在确定该地点和岩心是否保存了该地区冰川引起的海平面变化的记录。这项研究是明尼苏达大学德卢斯分校和美国地质调查局的科学家合作进行的，他们将对岩心进行X射线荧光分析。这项研究可能会对更广泛的科学界产生广泛的影响，并通过为围绕海平面变化的古老而棘手的科学问题提供新的视角，促进围绕气候问题的新思维。这些活动非常适合SGER计划的潜在变革性、高风险性和探索性。

This project, funded under the auspices of the Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) program, is an exploration of sediment cores extracted from the Hybla Valley, a deep paleo-valley of the Potomac River. This investigation is intended to determine if the site and the cores preserve a record of glacial-induced sea level change in the region. This research is a collaboration among scientists from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the U.S. Geological Survey who will conduct x-ray fluorescence analyses on the cores. The research could have broad impact on the wider science community and catalyze new thinking in issues surrounding climate by offering a new perspective on old and knotty scientific problems surrounding sea level variability. The activities fit well into the potentially transformative, high risk, and exploratory nature of the SGER program.