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ARAMACC
Annually Resolved Archives of MArine Climate Change
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€ 3,115,639.12
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…. all for sclerochronology
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ARAMACC
Annually Resolved Archives of MArine Climate Change
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What is an Initial Training Network ?
Structuring effect on the European Research Area
through transnational and intersectoral mobility in
order to create a European labour market for
researchers
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Funding for 10 ESRs (ie salaried PhDs)
+ 1 ER (Experienced Researcher - ie a recently qualified PhD)
The host institutions are spread across 8 centres in 6 countries
(Croatia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, UK)
Mobility: ESRs and ERs can be recruited from anywhere except
the country of the host institution *
Mobility: Anywhere means just that – anywhere in the world
Timing: Recruitment from Sept-Jan, ESRs start in February
* cannot have resided in the country of the host for more than
one year in the three years before the contract begins
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Host institutions for the ESRs
Bangor, UK (SOS: James Scourse, Paul Butler)
Bergen, Norway (UniRes: Carin Andersson)
Geesthacht, Germany (HZG: Eduardo Zorita)
Mainz, Germany (JGU: Bernd Schöne)
Plouzané, France (UBO: Julien Thébault)
Texel, Netherlands (NIOZ: Rob Witbaard)
Split, Croatia (IOF: Melita Peharda)
… and for the ER
Aberdeen, UK (Hartley Anderson Ltd: John Hartley)
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In addition to the main hosts, we have three Associated Partners:
Akvaplan-niva, Norway (Michael Carroll)
AWI, Germany (Thomas Brey)
IPMA, Portugal (Pedro Freitas)
… and a Visiting Researcher (Al Wanamaker)
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Four Work Packages
WP1 the construction of a network of shell-based chronologies
for the NE Atlantic region
WP2 the use of data from these and other existing chronologies
in numerical climate models
WP3 the environmental drivers of shell growth
WP4 novel applications of the shell material, including the
production of baseline environmental data for commercial and
regulatory organizations.
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WP1 NE Atlantic marine climate variability and palaeoceanography:
the construction of a network of shell-based chronologies for the NE
Atlantic region
ESR1.1 Bergen: Variability of Atlantic inflow
(1): Faroe inflow branch.
ESR1.2 Bergen: Variability of Atlantic inflow
(2): northern Norway.
ESR1.3 Bangor: Variability of Atlantic inflow
(3): Scotland - Norway branch of the North
Atlantic Current.
ESR1.4 Plouzané: Construction of long
annually-resolved sclerochronologies using
Glycymeris spp from Iberia, NW France and
the Mediterranean.
ESR1.5 Bangor: Holocene climate variability in
UK waters based on Arctica islandica
sclerochronology.
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WP2 Integration of sclerochronological data from multiple sites into
numerical models
ESR2.1 Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht:
The use of proxy data from molluscan
sclerochronology for model comparison and
decadal prediction.
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WP3 Ecological and biological drivers of calcification rate and increment
formation.
ESR3.1 NIOZ Texel: The ecological and
biological drivers of calcification rate and
increment formation in Arctica islandica.
ESR3.2 IOF Split: The ecological and biological
drivers of calcification rate and increment
formation in Glycymeris spp
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WP4 novel applications of the shell material, including the production of
baseline environmental data for commercial and regulatory organizations.
ER4.1 Hartley Anderson Ltd Aberdeen:
Exploiting the commercial potential of
sclerochronology in environmental
monitoring
ESR4.2 Mainz: Trace element incorporation
into shells.
ESR4.3 Mainz: Exploring the potential of shell
crystal fabrics as novel environmental proxies.
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The aim of ARAMACC training is to develop a cadre of highly-trained
scientists with a range of overlapping and cross-disciplinary skills who are
fully committed to the use of high-resolution shell-based archives to increase
our understanding of the part played by the oceans in the Earth’s complex
climate system. With this background, they will be able to apply their skills to
the study of past and future climate change and to ensuring that the use of
the shelf seas for infrastructure projects is genuinely sustainable and fully
informed.
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Seven network-wide
training events
(G: generic S: specific)
S1: Research at sea #1: training cruise to NW
Scotland (7 days, sail from Bangor, spring 2014)
S2: Research at sea #2: training cruise to the
Faroes (7 days, sail from Bergen, spring 2014)
Summer School #1, Bangor(spring 2014)
G1: Research management
S3: Constructing chronologies using shells
Workshop #1, Mainz (spring 2015)
G2: Scientific writing and publication
S4: Geochemical techniques in sclerochronology
Workshop #2, Texel (autumn 2015)
G3: Attracting funding
S5: Ecology of long-lived bivalves
Summer School #2, Tromsø (summer 2016)
G4: Entrepreneurship, commercial
exploitation and career development
G5: Dissemination and public outreach
Summer School #3, Split (summer 2017)
S6: Sclerochronology and numerical modelling
S7: Final conference
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