Uncovering ancient landscapes with emerging technologies: integrating complex geospatial and fossil data to explore late Cenozoic environmental change

该项目旨在利用新兴技术来解开史前气候变化与澳大利亚北方环境影响之间的关系。鉴于目前关于当代气候变化对我们生物群影响的不确定性，记录过去气候变化的结果，特别是1500万至500万年前塑造现代澳大利亚环境的全球关键时期，是很重要的。位于北方昆士兰州的里弗斯利世界遗产区的丰富化石沉积物就跨越了这一时期。对它们的影响和变化的精细记录的解释将提高我们预测的能力，从而更好地管理未来气候变化对我们独特的国家自然遗产的影响。

This project aims to use emerging technologies to unravel relationships between prehistoric climate changes and environmental impacts in northern Australia. Given current uncertainty about impacts of contemporary climate change on our biota, it is important to document the outcomes of past climatic changes and, in particular, the globally critical period between 15 and five million years ago that shaped modern Australian environments. Fossil-rich deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of northern Queensland span this period. Interpretation of their fine-grained record of impact and change will improve our ability to predict and hence better manage impacts of future climate change on our unique national natural heritage.