Understanding physical and biogeochemical processes in coral reef coastal, shallow-water, and deep-sea environments, and assessing natural and anthropogenic driven changes in these systems.
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Sclerosponges collected using closed-circuit rebreathers by the University of Puerto Rico dive team.
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Find Out MoreOur research is focused on developing and utilising geochemical proxies to track environmental change in the oceans in time and space. Isotope and trace element records, extracted from the skeletons of marine calcifiers in particular (e.g. corals, sclerosponges, foraminifers, coralline algae) that can inhabit shallow waters to deep-sea environments, are used to determine how climate and anthropogenic processes have influenced our oceans over recent and geological timescales. Integral to this work, is studying biomineralisation processes, and how they influence the geochemical compositions.
We have access to the latest laboratory equipment, field equipment and computational resources. Our facilities, laboratories and field equipment, combined with our partnerships within the Indian Ocean Marine Research Center and externally with our collaborators around the world, enable us to undertake cutting edge research that has impact.
Our researchers include geochemists, oceanographers, marine biologists, geologists and engineers who work together to get an holistic understanding of how oceans are changing around the world. Our researchers have skills in remote sensing, field observations, iosotope analysis as well as numerical modelling and big data analysis.
Understanding physical and biogeochemical processes in coral reef coastal, shallow-water, and deep-sea environments, and assessing natural and anthropogenic driven changes in these systems.
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