Simulating the evolution of the Southern Ocean and Australia's Palaeo-environment over 40 million years [ 2005-05-11 - 2008-10-09 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dietmar Muller (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Joachim Ribbe (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Yuzhu You (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Christopher Poulsen (Partner Investigator) ,  Professor Dietmar Müller

Brief description Simulating the evolution of the Southern Ocean and Australia's Palaeo-environment over 40 million years. Our project falls in the first national research priority: an environmentally sustainable Australia and meets two of its primary goals, understanding environmental change and the evolution of biodiversity, and responding to climate change and variability. Our models will represent a major step forward in differentiating between natural processes and anthropological input to present global climate change and will address quantitatively how Australia changed from a continent rich in freshwater to the driest inhabited continent throughout the last 40 million years.

Funding Amount $180,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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