Maximising accuracy and reliability of carbonate climate proxy archives

该项目汇集了不同学科的专门知识和尖端方法，以确定对海洋生物贝壳和骨骼成分的控制。在现代气候记录开始之前，这些材料的成分是重建环境条件的重要工具。然而，最近对它们如何形成的洞察使它们变得极其复杂，并影响了它们的解释。 这一结果将使我们能够开发出新的、现实的模型来研究这些材料中化学元素的行为。这将大大改善古气候解释，并为未来保护澳大利亚的海洋资源提供至关重要的好处。

This project brings together expertise and cutting-edge methodology from different disciplines to identify the controls on the compositions of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms. The compositions of these materials are essential tools to reconstruct environmental conditions before modern climate records began. However, recent insights into how they form profoundly complicate and affect their interpretations. The results will enable us to develop new, realistic models for the behaviour of chemical elements in these materials. This will significantly improve paleoclimate interpretations and provide critical benefit for protecting Australia’s marine resources in the future.