Collaborative Research: Late Holocene Climate Archives Preserved in Archaeological Shells

该奖项旨在利用从考古沉积物中保存的文石软体动物壳和鱼耳石中产生的氧同位素数据，重建过去2000年间佛罗里达西南沿海地区的水温和盐度。该研究采用了一种新颖的方法，从生物、同位素和考古档案中重建工业化前的低纬度气候。该项目将支持新的研究人员和他们的研究生，包括佛罗里达自然历史博物馆在内的大力推广工作。

This award aims to reconstruct water temperatures and salinity in the coastal SW Florida region during the past 2,000 years using oxygen isotope data generated from dated aragonitic mollusk shells and fish otoliths preserved in archaeological deposits. The research employs a novel approach to reconstruct pre-industrial, low-latitude climate from biotic, isotopic, and archaeological archives. The project will support new relatively investigators and their graduate students in a strong outreach effort involving the Florida Museum of Natural History.