Collaborative Research: Testing the Impact of Seasonality on Benthic Foraminifers as Paleoenvironmental Proxies.

该项目研究了南极半岛西部Gerlache-South Bransfield海峡地区有孔虫丰度和贝壳组成的季节变化。其目标是改进对微型动物和地球化学指标的解释，以重建古代洋流、气候和生态。由于季节变化可能会对解释产生很大影响，该项目将重点放在南极地区，那里强烈的季节性应该会产生比不那么极端的中纬度地区更明显的信号。结果应该能让我们更好地理解与季节性生产力的耦合，以及改善地区重建。更广泛的影响是研究生、本科生和博士后教育；以及向说英语和西班牙语的公众推广。这项工作还将提高社会对过去气候变化的理解，将其作为未来的类比。

This project studies seasonal variation in the abundance and shell composition of foraminifera from the northern Gerlache-southern Bransfield Straits region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Its goal is to improve interpretation of microfaunal and geochemical proxies for reconstruction of ancient ocean currents, climate, and ecologies. Since seasonal variation may greatly affect interpretation, this project focuses on the Antarctic region, where intense seasonality should generate a more obvious signal than at the less extreme mid-latitudes. The results should allow a better understanding of the coupling to seasonal productivity, as well as improve regional reconstructions.The broader impacts are graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral student education; as well as outreach to both the English and Spanish-speaking public. The work will also improve society's understanding of past climate change as an analogue to the future.