Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101513 [ 2015-02-09 - 2019-12-24 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Graziela Miot da Silva (Chief Investigator) ,  Honorary Professor Jamie Shulmeister (Chief Investigator) ,  Joshua Larsen (Chief Investigator) ,  Kevin Welsh (Chief Investigator) ,  Patrick Hesp (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Climate and environmental history of SE Queensland dunefields. This project aims to generate fundamental information about the timing and mode of formation of sand dunes in the world's largest downdrift sand system, Cooloola and Fraser Island, Queensland. The project aims to provide a world class record of climate variability, sea-level change and long term climate change from the sub-tropics of Australia, an area critical to understanding global climate links and sea-level change but where high quality long-term records are sparse and little investigated. This project will also underpin the outstanding universal value of the Fraser Island World Heritage Area which is based on the area being the world's largest sand island, but for which scientific understanding of the sand dunes is remarkably poor.

Funding Amount $364,900

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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