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 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 Steinitz-Kannan at Northern Kentucky               University under NSF grant number ATM-8713211.
{'FirstName': 'Paul', 'LastName': 'Colinvaux', 'EmailAddress': 'pcolinva@mbl.edu', 'StartDate': '08/01/1987', 'EndDate': None, 'RoleCode': 'Principal Investigator'}
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