ArChaeological and Climatic data from ELEmental ratios using Rapid Analysis of shell carbonaTE

Información del proyecto

ACCELERATE

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 703625

DOI

10.3030/703625

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 4 Marzo 2016

Fecha de inicio 1 Mayo 2016

Fecha de finalización 30 Abril 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 152 653,20

Aportación de la UE

€ 152 653,20

Coordinado por

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

Objetivo

ACCELERATE will develop a rapid and affordable technique using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to retrieve climatic information preserved in the elemental composition of marine mollusc shell carbonates and establish standardised ways of applying this technique to coastal shell-midden deposits around the world. This will combine the disciplines of Laser Spectroscopy, Climatology and Archaeology to advance the reconstruction of climate change, exploitation of coastal resources and human-landscape interactions at an unprecedented scale and resolution.
Anthropogenic shell deposits are found in their thousands across the globe over the last 100,000 years. Locked within the shells are climatic records with a high resolution. This crucial information is currently inaccessible due to expensive and laborious techniques, resulting in small, unrepresentative studies and a lack of comparability between them.
ACCELERATE will resolve this by developing LIBS, which will allow rapid chemical analyses, increasing the cost efficiency by a factor of 20, resulting in large datasets.

The project will place the ER on an excellent career path because a) the developed method will be in high demand, b) the novel and interdisciplinary nature of the project will attract a wide network of collaborators, and c) the relevance to sites from different continents and periods will allow for wide dissemination of results. This will lay the foundation for affordable and comprehensive climate studies world-wide, which is closely related to Horizon 2020 policy priorities to understand and adapt to climate change.

ACCELERATE will make use of the outstanding experimental and cutting edge research facilities at the host institution, IESL-FORTH, to develop an efficient method of producing climate data. The ER and FORTH will exploit and integrate their international contacts covering all continents to develop an international network and the foundation for comparative studies on a global scale.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › ciencias químicas › química inorgánica › compuestos inorgánicos
• humanidades › historia y arqueología › arqueología › etnoarqueología
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias de la atmósfera › climatología › cambios climáticos
• ciencias naturales › ciencias físicas › óptica › física del láser
• ciencias naturales › ciencias físicas › óptica › espectroscopia

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2015-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Coordinador

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 152 653,20
• Dirección: N PLASTIRA STR 100 ; 70 013 IRAKLEIO ; Grecia
• Región: Νησιά Αιγαίου › Κρήτη › Ηράκλειο
• Tipo de actividad: Research Organisations
• Coste total: € 152 653,20