Collaborative Research: Climatic History of the Western     Amazon Basin and the Equatorial Andes Since 18k
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Palynology and paleolimnology will be used to reconstruct               the climatic history of the Western Amazon basin since the last                 glacial maximum.  Sediments cores will be raised from Amazonian                 crater Lake Kumpaka, from an ancient Amazonian riverine lake,                   Zancudococha, and from the lakes in the southern Ecuadorian                     Andes.  Fossiliferous Amazonian exposures shown by radiocarbon                  dating to be of glacial age will be sampled and explored.  Pollen               and diatom and analyses will be undertaken to reconstruct                       histories of vegetation and lake levels in order to test the                    hypothesis that glacial climates of the western Amazon were                     cooler rather than drier than Holocene climates.                                        This project is important because it will delineate the                 paleoclimate history of this vast tropical region, a region                     critically important to our understanding of climate change and                 one virtually unknown.  The research will be carried out in                     collaboration with Professor Paul Colinvaux at Ohio State under                 NSF grant number ATM-8709685.
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