Posted: March 5th, 2015

Palaeoenvironment:Quaternary materials and succession related to climate and sea level change; Mallorca Fieldwork Project Guidance

Palaeoenvironment:Quaternary materials and succession related to climate and sea level change;

Mallorca Fieldwork Project Guidance

Below appears a table of potential fieldwork project topic areas. The topics identified should provide a reasonable range of initial ideas for you to use as a starting point for your potential project design exercise. Due to logistic constraints, numbers and venues are restricted. We are aiming to have groups of 4 people collecting data together, for health, safety and academic reasons. After the data collection phase in the field (and follow up in laboratory work if needed) an outline group presentation will be undertaken on the project, followed by an individual write-up.

Potential projects:

Project ID    Topic Outline    Equipment    Team
PV1    Carbon Budget:
Variability related to factors such as:
•    Climate change in Mallorca
•    Impact of wildfire on carbon storage
•    Impact of human influence on carbon storage due to road building
•    Impact of sea spray on carbon storage
•    Soil moisture and carbon storage
•    Aspect and carbon storage    30m tape
5m tape
Abney Level
Chalk, GPS Veg ID text
PV2    Coastal Morphology:
Raised platform – notch morphology variations in relation to sea-level change    (30m tape)
5m tape
Abney Level
Compass
GPS
PV3    Coastal Weathering:
Solution pit style and frequency with distance above and/or inland from sea-level    (30m tape)
5m tape
Profile gauge?
PV4    Palaeoenvironment:
Quaternary materials and succession related to climate and sea level change    5m tape
GPS, Hand lens
Compass -clino
GS chart
PV5    Palaeosol Development:
Profile and characteristics of buried soils    5m tape
Hand lens
GS chart
PV6    Coastal influence on Biodiversity:
Tree, shrub and ground cover species diversity related to distance inland from cliff edge    30m tape
5m tape Quadrat
Veg ID text

PV7    Vegetation-prevailing wind links:
Wind-pruning of coastal vegetation    Compass-clino
30m tape?
Abney level
PV8    Species Regeneration:
•    Biodiversity of regenerated burnt and non-burnt surface
•    Investigation into the impacts of differing severity burns on regeneration    30m tape
5m tape Quadrat
Veg ID text

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