18 November 2016:
2014 SCAR Fellow Dr M. C. Manoj developed skills and techniques in recovering past climate data from sediment cores during his exchange in Japan. Dr Manoj is a Scientist at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Lucknow, India. He gained his PhD from the National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India in 2013. His host for the Fellowship was Dr Minoru Ikehara at the Center for Advanced Marine Core Research (CMCR), Kochi University, Japan.
The aim of the Fellowship was to focus on well-dated sediment cores from the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean to investigate basin-wide millennial climate variability. Dr Manoj concentrated on extracting high resolution biomarker data from a previously recovered Southern Ocean core available at Kochi University which will help understand paleo-temperature, terrestrial input and productivity in the Southern Ocean. He gained valuable experience by participating in the Japanese Expedition to the Southern Ocean on research cruise KH-16-1. Unfortunately as conditions are often unpredictable in the Antarctic no new cores were collected but new collaborations and friendships were formed.
The SCAR Fellowship Programme is designed to encourage the active involvement of early career scientists and engineers in Antarctic scientific research, and to build new connections and further strengthen international capacity and cooperation in Antarctic research. The work must be carried out in a research group of a SCAR member country different from that of the applicant’s origin and current residence.
The full report is available on the Fellows webpage together with the full list of SCAR Fellows and available Reports.