FY 2013
The primary goals for the USGS PRISM group during this final year of PRISM3D are to continue initial development of the next generation multiproxy regional and dynamic paleoenvironmental reconstructions and 2) continue to leverage the results of the joint PRISM-PlioMIP climate simulations to better understand the nature of Pliocene climate and its relationship to future climate change.
Specific elements of our work plan include:
- Produce targeted faunal SST analyses
- Produce alkenone and SST estimates for targeted samples using the new PRISM Time Slice definition
- Produce Mg/Ca SST estimates for selected core sites
- Incorporate the new topographic reconstruction into PRISM
- Continue work on a circulation component to the deep ocean dataset
- Incorporate the SOILS/LAKES reconstruction into PRISM
- Produce a comprehensive SST data-model comparison based on PlioMIP simulations
- Publish the PRISM foraminiferal database
- Publish PRISM locality list with lambda confidence parameters
- Publish Indian Ocean regional reconstruction
- Conduct field work in the southeastern United States
- Publish peer-reviewed papers on microfossil distributions, site-specific paleoclimate records, data-model comparisons, SST confidence assessment, and initial PRISM4 paleoclimate records
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