Difference between revisions of "SCOR WG138 Introduction"
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==About the Project == | ==About the Project == | ||
| − | Planktic foraminifera are arguably the most important carriers of paleoclimate information available to scientists. Our ability to reconstruct past climate states and to predict the impact of the functioning of foraminifera under changing oceanic conditions in the future depends on a complete understanding of their ecology, biology, physiology and the mechanisms by which they incorporate geochemical tracers for reconstructing oceanic temperature, ''p''H and salinity. The last synthesis of the state-of-the-art on planktic foraminifer was published 20 years ago (Hemleben et al., 1989). Since then, a suite of new technologies and experimental methods have been applied to living and fossil foraminifera that have resulted in new biological and ecological insights on this group. The result has been an expanded context and wealth of novel ways to data mine the thousands of publications that exist in the literature. The proposed synthesis of knowledge and techniques will be a 21st century keystone that both articulates and focuses future research needs and potentials. The [[WG138:WG138 Members|Working group]] will disseminate the current knowledge of this field to active researchers, students, specialists and other users of foraminiferal data, from the fields of the marine carbon cycle, through paleoclimate reconstructions to model predictions of future climate change.[http://youtu.be/xfZ_9UWcAB8 Watch the introduction to the working group here] | + | [[WG138:Planktic_foraminifera| Planktic foraminifera]] are arguably the most important carriers of paleoclimate information available to scientists. Our ability to reconstruct past climate states and to predict the impact of the functioning of foraminifera under changing oceanic conditions in the future depends on a complete understanding of their ecology, biology, physiology and the mechanisms by which they incorporate geochemical tracers for reconstructing oceanic temperature, ''p''H and salinity. The last synthesis of the state-of-the-art on planktic foraminifer was published 20 years ago (Hemleben et al., 1989). Since then, a suite of new technologies and experimental methods have been applied to living and fossil foraminifera that have resulted in new biological and ecological insights on this group. The result has been an expanded context and wealth of novel ways to data mine the thousands of publications that exist in the literature. The proposed synthesis of knowledge and techniques will be a 21st century keystone that both articulates and focuses future research needs and potentials. The [[WG138:WG138 Members|Working group]] will disseminate the current knowledge of this field to active researchers, students, specialists and other users of foraminiferal data, from the fields of the marine carbon cycle, through paleoclimate reconstructions to model predictions of future climate change.[http://youtu.be/xfZ_9UWcAB8 Watch the introduction to the working group here] |
== Rationale == | == Rationale == | ||
