NSF Award Search: Award # 0635537

Award Abstract # 0635537

Collaborative Study: Re-evaluation of the Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) and Tasmania (Australia)

NSF Org:	OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
Initial Amendment Date:	August 28, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	July 15, 2008
Award Number:	0635537
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Alexandra Isern OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	September 1, 2007
End Date:	August 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$17,980.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2007 = $17,980.00
History of Investigator:	John Isbell (Principal Investigator) jisbell@uwm.edu Margaret Fraiser (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3203 N DOWNER AVE # 273 MILWAUKEE WI US 53211-3153 (414)229-4853
Sponsor Congressional District:	04
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3203 N DOWNER AVE # 273 MILWAUKEE WI US 53211-3153
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	04
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	JBQ9M3PLFDP5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	ANT Earth Sciences
Primary Program Source:	0100CYXXDB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	511200
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.078

ABSTRACT

Abstract
This award supports a pilot study of deposits from the late Paleozoic Gondwanan ice age. These deposits represent the last time that the earth transitioned from an ice-house to greenhouse world. This project will generate new stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geochemical data from ice-proximal deposits in Tasmania (Australia). The outcome will be a robust, chronostratigraphic framework of regional scale that can be incorporated into global views. If successful, this study will pave the way work on similar deposits in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The results from this work will contribute to models of past climates. In terms of broader impacts, society will benefit from insights gained on rates and magnitudes of climate variability during icehouse climate modes, including changes during the transition from icehouse to greenhouse climate states, which may apply to the current earth's own climate in the near future.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L "The late Paleozoic ice age--A review of current understanding and synthesis of global climate patterns" Geological Society of America Special Paper , v.441 , 2008 , p.343

Fraiser, M.L., Lindsey C. Henry, and Isbell, J "Examining the complexity of environmental and biotic change during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic" Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs , v.40 , 2008 , p.404

Henry, L.C.; Isbell, J. L.; Fielding, C. R.; Frank, T.D.; and Fraiser, M.L. "Early Permian glacial advance-retreat cycles recorded in the Wynyard Formation of Tasmania, Australia" Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v.41 , 2009 , p.72

Isbell, J. L.; Fielding, C. R.; Frank, T.D.; Henry, L. C.; Koch, Z. J.; Fraiser, M. L.; and Limarino, C. O. "The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Size and Duration of Glacial Events" Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v.40 , 2008 , p.403

Isbell, J.L.; Fraiser, M.L.; and Henry, L.C. "Examining the Complexity of Environmental Change during the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic" PALAIOS , v.23 , 2008 , p.267

Isbell, J.L.; Henry, L.C.; Limarino, C. O.; Cole, D.I.; Gulbranson, E.; Montanez, I.; and Fraiser, M.L. "The late Paleozoic ice age: revision of the western Gondwana record" Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v.41 , 2009 , p.72

Isbell, J.L., Koch, Z.J., Szablewski, G.M., and Lenaker, P.A "Permian glacigenic deposits in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica" Geological Society of America Special Paper , v.441 , 2008 , p.59

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