NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) for FY 2013 in Australia

2013 财年 NSF 东亚及太平洋地区暑期学院 (EAPSI) 在澳大利亚举行

• 批准号: 1311002
• 负责人: Page Quinton
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Quinton Page C
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1311002&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; East; Asia; Pacific; Summer

This action funds Page Quinton of The University of Missouri to conduct a research project in Geoscience during the summer of 2013 at the Geological Survey of New South Wales in Sydney. The project title is "Constraining Global Sea Surface Temperatures Trends during the Late Ordovician Period in New South Wales Australia." The host scientist is Dr. Ian Percival.This project establishes the first high-resolution sea surface temperature record of the Australian continent during the Late Ordovician (a time period from 454 to 443 million years ago) using conodont elements (the teeth-like structures located in the gills of a small marine animal, referred to as conodonts) collected from New South Wales, Australia. Previous work along these lines has largely been conducted on rocks from North America making it difficult to determine if observed patterns were global or regional. These results have implications for the role atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate evolution, the timing of Ordovician glaciation, and the relationship between glaciation and the mass extinction event at the end of the Ordovician Period. Furthermore, knowledge of the global climate has societal relevance. Mechanism which governed past changes in global climate, continue to do so today. A better understanding of them will contribute to better predictions of possible changes going forward especially on a long time scale.Broader impacts of an EAPSI fellowship include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce. In addition, the knowledge and experience gained by the Fellow will inform and enrich educational experience of the students in the courses she teaches with an emphasis on uprooting misconceptions and misunderstandings about the behavior of climatic systems.

这一行动资助密苏里州大学的佩奇·昆顿在2013年夏天在悉尼新南威尔士州地质调查局进行一个地球科学研究项目。 该项目的标题是“澳大利亚新南威尔士州晚奥陶世期间制约全球海表温度趋势”。“主持科学家Ian Percival博士是该项目的第一个高分辨率海洋表面温度记录的澳大利亚大陆在晚奥陶纪（一个时间段从4.54亿至4.43亿年前）使用牙形石元素（牙齿状结构位于鳃的一种小型海洋动物，被称为牙形石）收集从新南威尔士州，澳大利亚。以前的工作沿着这些线主要是在来自北美的岩石上进行的，因此很难确定观察到的模式是全球性的还是区域性的。这些结果对大气二氧化碳在气候演化中的作用、奥陶纪冰川作用的时间以及冰川作用与奥陶纪末期生物大灭绝事件之间的关系具有重要意义。此外，对全球气候的了解具有社会意义。过去控制全球气候变化的机制今天仍然如此。更好地了解它们将有助于更好地预测未来可能发生的变化，特别是在很长一段时间内。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛影响包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验;介绍各自所在地的科学，科学政策和科学基础设施;以及社会，文化和语言的方向。这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在科学家，工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期进行国际合作教育，从而确保具有全球意识的美国科学工作者。此外，研究员获得的知识和经验将在她教授的课程中为学生提供信息和丰富教育经验，重点是根除对气候系统行为的误解和误解。