NSF Org:	OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Initial Amendment Date:	March 9, 2001
Latest Amendment Date:	December 27, 2002
Award Number:	0094771
Award Instrument:	Continuing Grant
Program Manager:	Amos Winter OCE  Division Of Ocean Sciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	April 1, 2001
End Date:	March 31, 2005 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$276,907.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$276,907.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2001 = $91,973.00 FY 2002 = $93,230.00 FY 2003 = $91,704.00
History of Investigator:	Robert Thunell (Principal Investigator) thunell@geol.sc.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of South Carolina at Columbia 1600 HAMPTON ST COLUMBIA SC  US  29208-3403 (803)777-7093
Sponsor Congressional District:	06
Primary Place of Performance:	University of South Carolina at Columbia 1600 HAMPTON ST COLUMBIA SC  US  29208-3403
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	06
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	J22LNTMEDP73
Parent UEI:	Q93ZDA59ZAR5
NSF Program(s):	Marine Geology and Geophysics
Primary Program Source:	01000102DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT app-0102  app-0103
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	162000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

Funding is requested to conduct a high resolution study of late Pleistocene and Holocene ocean temperature and hydrographic variability archived in deep sea cores collected in 1998 within the Indo-Pacific warm pool region as part of the international paleoceanographic project IMAGES. This project will produce the first records of climate variability in the tropical warm pool region at resolutions high enough for direct comparison with both high and low latitude ice core records. This will allow testing of the hypothesis that the warm pool did not cool more than 2 degrees C during the last glacial. A Multiproxy (staple isotope, alkenone, Mg/CA) approach will be used to reconstruct sea surface temperatures, as well as deep and intermediate water temperatures for the last 150kyr.

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