Revealing the thermocline secrets using cold-water corals
To understand the ocean response to the natural climatic cycles and human induced climate changes – prior to the instrumental data - we need to rely on indicators retrieved from natural archives. Scleractinian cold-water corals live at the intermediate ocean depths and are, thus, relevant archives of oceanic changes occurred along the thermocline. By chemical analyzing their skeletons we may reconstruct past chemical and physical ocean conditions such as temperature, pH, or water provenance.
The seminar will be held on March 27, at 13:30, at the University of Algarve, Gambelas Campus - Complexo Pedagógico, Anfiteatro D, and also online, via Zoom.
Participation is free but mandatory to register.
About our speaker:
Lélia Matos is a paleoceanographer and expert in cold-water coral geochemistry.
