QUEEN

The Quaternary Environmental Evolution of the Northwest-Passage

Coordinatore	BANGOR UNIVERSITY    more  Organization address address: COLLEGE ROAD city: BANGOR postcode: LL57 2DG contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Clare Cognome: Williams Email: send email Telefono: +44 1248 382136 Fax: +44 1248 382042
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	75˙000 €
EC contributo	75˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
Funding Scheme	MC-CIG
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-03-01   -   2015-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BANGOR UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: COLLEGE ROAD city: BANGOR postcode: LL57 2DG contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Clare Cognome: Williams Email: send email Telefono: +44 1248 382136 Fax: +44 1248 382042	UK (BANGOR)	coordinator	75˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Despite the significance of the Northwest Passage (NWP) for global oceanic, freshwater, atmospheric, and biological systems, its long-term (last deglaciation onward) marine environmental histories remain understudied. The QUEEN (QUaternary Environmental Evolution of the Northwest-Passage) project seeks to redress this oversight. The project is founded upon an upcoming Geological Survey of Canada-funded expedition through the NWP to the North Atlantic, to collect geological samples along an 8500 km transect. In collaboration with national and international institutions, four interdependent research goals are proposed. Collectively, these would significantly advance our current understanding of the NWP and the adjacent North Atlantic, including: environmental development from deglaciation to present, long-term histories of sea-ice, ice shelves, sea-level, and marine ecosystems. Research themes include the multiproxy study of both long (piston) and short (box) marine core records for biogeochemical characteristics to provide long-term environmental data. Further, to elucidate if recent (post 1850 AD) climatic warming and climatic intervals such as the Medieval Climate Anomaly or Little Ice Age are manifested in Arctic marine records. Additionally, QUEEN seeks to improve the use and fidelity of high-latitude proxies by utilizing new approaches to qualitative and quantitative environmental reconstructions (e.g., marine diatoms, non-pollen palynomorphs, foraminiferal stable isotopes). It further aims to significantly improve radiocarbon-derived NWP chronologies by quantifying potential material-specific error sources, and long marine residence times. Collectively, this research would fundamentally advance our understanding of high-latitude continental shelf environments with major benefits for determining the response of these critical areas to future climate change, thus representing a valuable contribution to Earth System Science.'