Expedition 325 - Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes (Recent News Coverage)
Activities:
- media conference Townsville/Queensland, February 11th, 2010
- interviews given by co-chief scientists during the days before the start of the expedition
- interview of Alan Stevenson for Canberra Radio
- Fossils 'record past sea changes' by Mark Kinver Science and environment reported, BBC News. Alan Stevenson and Dan Evans are quoted in this article.
- BBC Radio 5 Live, Up All Night, Wednesday 17th Feb - Interview with Alan Stevenson (find it at 2 h 23 mins into the programme)
Responses:
9th July 2010
Bildung & Wissen
Vom Great-Barrier-Riff nach Bremen
Radio Bremen
Korallen berichten vom Klima
21st February 2010
Cairns Newspaper
Unlocking the secrets of Sea-Level Change - Great Barrier Reef Expedition
16th February 2010
Weser-Kurier (daily newspaper Bremen, (circulation 172.000 copies)
"Was Korallenreste über das Klima verraten — Am Great Barrier-Riff gewonnene Sedimentproben sollen im Juli in Bremen untersucht warden"
DNA - India
Fossilised coral reefs may reveal changes in sea levels over past 20,000 years
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 18:31 IST
London: An international team of scientists is going to study fossilized coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef, in order to understand how sea levels have changed over the past 20,000 years. According to a report in BBC News, the team will spend 45 days at sea, gathering core samples from about 40 sites. Described as the "trees of the sea", coral have growth rings that show seasonal variations. Researchers say the samples will also shed light on past sea temperatures, as well as other changes to the reef. The fossilised corals' annual growth rings provided an insight to conditions under waves, according to Alan Stevenson, team leader of marine geology at the British Geological Survey (BGS), which is involved in the project. "We can then analyse those rings to build up a very detailed picture of what the ocean was like when they were forming, including temperature and salinity," he said. The team will collect core samples of fossilized coral that developed between 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. "We will core into a 'time capsule' of sediments that holds information on the environmental evolution of the reef since the last glaciation some 20,000 years ago," said Dan Evans, a marine geologist at BGS and science manager for the Ecord Science Operator. Researchers currently believe that there were three periods in which there was accelerated sea level rise: 19,000, 13,800 and 11,300 years ago. "By understanding more about the past, we can understand a little bit more about the future," said Stevenson.
The team, on board the survey vessel Greatship Maya, will gather core samples, some of which will reach down to 150m (490ft) below the seabed. The expedition is being funded by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (Ecord) and forms part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).
AndhraNews.net
Fossilized coral reefs may reveal changes in sea levels over past 20,000 years
Yahoo! India News
Fossilized coral reefs may reveal changes in sea levels over past 20,000 years
Thaindian News
Fossilized coral reefs may reveal changes in sea levels over past 20,000 years
15th February 2010
Europa Press
A estudio los fósiles de la Gran Barrera de Coral australiana
Softpedia
Reef Studies to Discover Climate History since the last Ice Age
12th February 2010
Townsville BulletinGerman News Agency
Bremen Newspaper Weser-Kurier online Lauterbacher Anzeiger online
Lauterbacher Anzeiger newspaper
Die Erkenntnisse sollen nach Angaben des Marum zudem eine Vorhersage ermöglichen, wie das zum Weltnaturerbe zählende Great Barrier Reef auf künftige ...
11th February 2010
ABC TV, national news programm 7 pm, 1.30 minutes
"world`s first", interviews Jody Webster and Carol Cotterill
video
Ice age coral could point to future sea levels
Seven News (private TV local), ca. 1:30
Queensland news from Seven News
Wikipedia entry on Seven News
Ice-age coral could point to future sea levels
"Landmark mission" interviews: Jody Webster, Carol Cotterill and Yusuke Yokoyama
ABC radio news, 8 am (nationwide) and elsewhere
WIN News (private TV, Queensland), 6 pm
Cairns Post (Newspaper) (interview with Jody Webster; report not online)
Fiji Times
8th February 2010
ABC, Brisbane
08:30 News: 08 February 2010 08:32AM
Compere: Newsreader
Academics will begin drilling into the Great Barrier Reef in hopes of uncovering information about ice shelf melting and other climate change aspects.
Syndication - This program or part thereof is syndicated to the following (5) station(s): 1071 AM (Kingaroy)Brisbane), 4BH (Brisbane) (Brisbane), 4CRB FM (Gold Coast) (Brisbane), 4LG (Longreach)(Brisbane), Radio 4KZ (Innisfail) (Brisbane).
AAP Newswire (National news agency)
Academics from around the world gather in north Queensland this week .. to drill the Great Barrier Reef for clues on discovering the long term history of climate change.
The group will set off from Townsville .. spending 45 days gathering information they hope will provide insight into the past behaviour of climate change stretching back to the last ice age.
Expedition co-chief scientist Dr JODY WEBSTER .. from Sydney University .. says the team will drill for samples of fossilised reefs .. which will be used to answer questions about historic ice shelf melting and its effect on sea levels .. as well as on reefs.
Dr WEBSTER says they'll learn an incredible amount .. describing the investigation as truly exciting and groundbreaking .. with data gathered having implications for scientists working in a range of different fields.
The expedition is being funded by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program .. made up of scientific funding from the United States, Europe, Japan and several smaller partners .. including Australia.
3rd February 2010
TVNZ
Reef expedition to unlock climate change's past
25th January 2010
Press (Japanese national newswire), based on an interview with Yusuke Yokoyama
