A regional optical dating facility in Australia

该项目旨在在澳大利亚建立一个开放获取、终端用户友好的光学测年设施。这将解决现有国家地质年代学基础设施在能力和地理覆盖方面的不足，使澳大利亚的研究人员能够重建过去的气候变化、人类进化、生态脆弱性、自然和人为危害以及近百万年时间框架内的环境干扰的记录。该项目预计将增加对地球科学服务的商业需求，并使人们更好地了解澳大利亚的自然遗产及其长期脆弱性。

This project aims to establish an open access, end-user friendly optical dating facility in Australia. This will address shortcomings in the capacity and geographical coverage of the existing national geochronology infrastructure and enable Australian researchers to reconstruct past records of climate change, human evolution, ecological vulnerabilities, natural and man-made hazards and environmental disturbance over historical to near-million-year timeframes. This project is expected to increase commercial demand for geoscience services and lead to better understanding of Australia’s natural heritage and its long-term vulnerabilities.