Ice sheet collapse, sea-level rise and Australian coastal response

该项目旨在回答气候变化中的重要问题：哪个极地冰盖最容易受到气候变暖的影响？海平面上升的速度有多快？21世纪对全球海岸的影响是什么？极地冰盖对全球气温温和上升和未来海平面上升速度的反应仍然高度不确定。该项目计划在最后一个温暖的间冰期检查极地冰盖的退缩，以及澳大利亚沿海沉积物和形态中记录的海平面。它计划利用这种独特的海平面信号来确定冰盖的指纹，这些冰盖为海洋提供了多余的融水，并绘制出比现在海平面更高的澳大利亚南部海岸的分布图。

The project is designed to contribute to answering important questions in climate change: Which polar ice sheets are the most vulnerable to warming? How fast will sea levels rise? What will be the impact on global coasts during the 21st century? The response of polar ice sheets to modest increases in global temperature and the rate of future sea-level rise remains highly uncertain. The project plans to examine the retreat of the polar ice sheets during the last warm interglacial period and the sea-level record archived in the Australian coastal sediments and morphology. It plans to use this unique sea-level signal to fingerprint the ice sheets that contributed the excess meltwater to the oceans and to map the configuration of the southern Australian coast under higher sea levels than present.