EAGER: Investigating Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Central Asia Paleo-Hydroclimate

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项目编号	1546298
	EAGER: Investigating Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Central Asia Paleo-Hydroclimate
	Syee Weldeab
主持机构	University of California-Santa Barbara
项目开始年	2015
	2015-07-01
项目结束日期	2016-06-30
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	55237(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	This award uses funds, under the auspices of the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program, for a project aimed at establishing a Uranium-Thorium based age model for stalagmites from Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, generating preliminary proxy data, and calibrating environmental proxies against drip water chemistry from caves. The overall science goal is to use the results of this research to help improve the understanding of mid-latitude hydroclimate response to rapid climate changes on a variety of timescales. The project also has an educational goal of providing training for two Hispanic-American undergraduate students who are already working in the researcher's lab as research assistants. Specifically, project funds will support several analyses such as cave drip water chemistry, trace elements, fluorescence emission and intensity, delta 18-Oxygen and delta 13-Carbon, and stalagmite carbonate mineralogy as well as development of a U-Th based age model and the collection of cave drip waters. The project activities fit well into the potentially transformative, high-risk, and exploratory nature of the EAGER program because they are inherently interdisciplinary and rely on untested ideas and techniques. The analytical activities of the study are novel and thus would likely not fare well in the regular merit review process, especially without some preliminary data. If successful, this project could have a significant impact on the field of paleoclimatology by providing a chronology and time series from a new natural data archive in an area sensitive to hydrologic change on varying timescales. The project could lead to novel and transformative ways to explore hydroclimate studies in collaboration with other science disciplines.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/68104
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Syee Weldeab.EAGER: Investigating Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Central Asia Paleo-Hydroclimate.2015.