Reconstruction of anoxic and toxic conditions in Australian lakes and ancient oceans

可持续的水质对澳大利亚的经济和社会发展至关重要。为了能够预测和规划澳大利亚湖泊和河口的未来，了解它们的生态历史并确定它们在欧洲定居之前和之后的状态是至关重要的。该项目开发和应用新的方法来重建澳大利亚水道蓝藻水华、富营养化和缺氧的历史。这将有助于确定人类对水质的影响。应用于古代沉积岩的新方法还将提供有关环境变化对地球早期生命影响的信息，加强澳大利亚在全球地球化学循环研究中的地位。

Sustainable water quality is a critically important issue for Australia's economic and social development. To be able to predict and plan the future of Australia's lakes and estuaries, it is crucial to understand their ecological past and to determine their state prior to and post-European settlement. This project develops and applies novel methodologies to reconstruct the history of cyanobacterial blooms, eutrophication and anoxia in Australian waterways. It will help to identify human impact on water quality. The new methodologies, applied to ancient sedimentary rocks, will also yield information about the effect of environmental changes on early life on Earth, enforcing Australia's position in the study of global geochemical cycles.