A regional optical dating facility in Australia

澳大利亚的一个区域性光学测年机构

• 批准号: LE170100177
• 负责人: A/Prof Lee Arnold
• 金额: $ 19.34万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LE170100177
• 关键词: regional; optical; dating; facility; Australia

This project aims to establish an open access, end-user friendly optical dating facility in Australia. This will address shortcomings in the capacity and geographical coverage of the existing national geochronology infrastructure and enable Australian researchers to reconstruct past records of climate change, human evolution, ecological vulnerabilities, natural and man-made hazards and environmental disturbance over historical to near-million-year timeframes. This project is expected to increase commercial demand for geoscience services and lead to better understanding of Australia’s natural heritage and its long-term vulnerabilities.

该项目的目的是在澳大利亚建立一个开放获取、方便最终用户的光学测年设施。这将解决现有国家地质年代学基础设施在能力和地理覆盖面方面的缺陷，并使澳大利亚研究人员能够重建历史上近百万年时间范围内的气候变化、人类进化、生态脆弱性、自然和人为危害以及环境扰动的过去记录。预计该项目将增加对地球科学服务的商业需求，并使人们更好地了解澳大利亚的自然遗产及其长期脆弱性。