Collaborative Research: Ocean Ventilation Rates and Rapid Climate Change Recorded by Deep-Sea Corals: An Alvin and ABE Program to the New England Seamounts

Brown University, Providence RI

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Abstract

Summary: This objective of this study is to collect living and fossil deep sea corals from the New England Sea Mounts that will provide a depth transect from about 900 to 3000 meters. The corals will then be used in a multiproxy study to deduce deep water circulation changes and relate changes in deep water circulation to climate changes inferred from ice core data.