Project information
QUILTY, Prof. Patrick (Pat)
University of Tasmania
Australia (or home country)
Project aim
The Holocene sea-ice project brings together for the first time, records from the Antarctic continent and deep sea sediments that will allow us to calibrate three sea-ice extent surrogates, validate their use in contrast to satellite observations and explore climatic influence on the physio-ecological environment over the last 10,000 years.
Related publications
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New sea ice estimates over the last 49ky in the Southeast Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 5-10 August 2012, 2012
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Category 3: Verbal presentation
Although many Quaternary records have allowed the study of major glacial-interglacial change in the … Southern Ocean, Holocene records from deep-sea cores are few and far between and are currently … limited to the South Atlantic. Low sedimentation rates combined with deep seafloors…