To collect growth rate and geochemical information from barnacle shells for proxy calibration.
Location
West coast of Ireland, East coast of Africa
Summary
Barnacles will be grown in situ and transferred to aquaria for a period of ~10 weeks. The shells will be imaged, measured, and sampled at USGS.
Info derived
Growth rate and oxygen isotope composition
Comments
Some samples are archived materials leftover from previous experiments by Al-Qattan et al., 2023:
Al-Qattan, N., Herbert, G. S., Spero, H. J., McCarthy, S., McGeady, R., Tao, R., & Power, A.-M. (2023). A stable isotope sclerochronology-based forensic method for reconstructing debris drift paths with application to the MH370 crash. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000915. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023AV000915.
Some samples were obtained via Materials Transfer Agreement #2024-MN-13606 with French government.
