U.S.-Australian Cooperative Research: Australian History of Marine Upwelling and Continental Paleoclimates

该奖项将支持图森亚利桑那大学的朱迪思·帕里什博士和堪培拉矿产资源局的P·J·库克博士之间的合作研究。研究人员将把古气候模型的预测与煤炭和磷酸盐等具有气候意义的自然沉积物的实际分布进行比较，以更好地了解南太平洋/印度洋地区的古气候学。该项目结合了两位调查人员的专业知识。这位美国研究员是构建古气候模型的专家，而她的澳大利亚研究员在收集和分析自然发生的数据方面经验丰富。如果这些模型被证明是成功的，它们可用于促进矿物学勘探和历史研究，例如区域季风强度和纬向大气环流的周期性变化。最后，由于古气候对许多岩石类型的分布施加了强有力的控制，将古气候模型应用于古地理和岩性数据库将提供一个额外的框架，在其中可以解释数据。

This award will support collaborative research between Dr. Judith Parrish of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Dr. P.J.Cook of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra. The investigators will compare the predictions of paleoclimatic models with the actual distribution of such climatically significant natural deposits as coal and phosphates in order to better understand the paleoclimatology of the southern Pacific/Indian Ocean region. The project combines the expertise of the two investigators. The U.S. investigator is an expert in the construction of paleoclimatic models, while her Australian counterpart is experienced in the collection and analysis of naturally occurring data. If the models prove to be successful, they can be used to facilitate mineralogical exploration and also historical examination, e.g., that of the strength of the regional monsoons, and of periodic variations in the zonal atmospheric circulation. Finally, because paleoclimates have exerted strong controls on the distribution of many rock types, application of paleoclimatic models to the paleogeographic and lithologic data bases will provide an additional framework in which the data can be interpreted.