Environmental change in northern Cenozoic Australia: a multidisciplinary approach

澳大利亚北部新生代的环境变化：多学科方法

• 批准号: LP0989969
• 负责人: Em/Prof Suzanne Hand
• 金额: $ 62.8万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-06-23 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0989969
• 关键词: Environmental; change; northern; Cenozoic; Australia

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that by 2020 to 2050, Australia will suffer significant biodiversity loss and water shortages. Our research will document and date the evolution of Australia's biota through three cycles of climate change over the last 25 million years to quantify and thereby better anticipate the nature and dimension of threats facing our natural and cultural communities. We will develop innovative techniques to date prehistoric biotic and climatic events and, using a range of tracers, characterize ancient environments and groundwater. This project will assist rural and regional Australia through education and job creation in geotourism and natural resource interpretation and provide a mechanism to combat generational skill shortage.

政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）警告说，到2020年至2050年，澳大利亚将遭受严重的生物多样性丧失和水资源短缺。我们的研究将通过过去2500万年的三个气候变化周期来记录和确定澳大利亚生物群的演变，从而量化并更好地预测我们的自然和文化社区面临的威胁的性质和规模。我们将开发创新技术来确定史前生物和气候事件的年代，并使用一系列示踪剂来表征古代环境和地下水。该项目将通过地理旅游和自然资源解释方面的教育和创造就业机会，帮助澳大利亚农村和地区，并提供解决世代技能短缺问题的机制。