Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102561]Researchers: Ian Goodwin (Chief Investigator) , Michael J O'Leary (Chief Investigator) , Shari Gallop (Chief Investigator) , ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985 (Funded by) , Prof Jerry Mitrovica (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Ice sheet collapse, sea-level rise and Australian coastal response. The project is designed to contribute to answering important questions in climate change: Which polar ice sheets are the most vulnerable to warming? How fast will sea levels rise? What will be the impact on global coasts during the 21st century? The response of polar ice sheets to modest increases in global temperature and the rate of future sea-level rise remains highly uncertain. The project plans to examine the retreat of the polar ice sheets during the last warm interglacial period and the sea-level record archived in the Australian coastal sediments and morphology. It plans to use this unique sea-level signal to fingerprint the ice sheets that contributed the excess meltwater to the oceans and to map the configuration of the southern Australian coast under higher sea levels than present.
Funding Amount $332,900
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102561
- ARC : DP160102561