QUEST-DESIRE
Dynamics of the Earth System and the Ice-Core Record
Summary
DESIRE is a project funded jointly by the NERC QUEST programme and by the French INSU. It is closely linked to the NERC Theme 2 projects, and runs for 3 years from mid-2007.
DESIRE aims to understand the evolution of CO2 and CH4 over the 800,000 year period revealed by the ice core record. Workpackages are grouped into three strands on: methane and atmospheric chemistry; CO2 and the carbon cycle; understanding the nature and diversity of glacial-interglacial cycles in climate, CO2 and CH4.
Funded PIs and Co-Is are at 6 UK universities and institutes, and at 2 French institutes. A number of other UK and French universities are also involved as partners in the project.
Please explore these pages: within each strand is a page for each work package on which we hope to have a summary of the research, and exciting updates and news, along with relevant publications.
Updates
27/11/2008 – Updates to Meetings & Workshops page; information on joint QQ/Q-DES meeting now available
21/07/2008 – QUEST-DESIRE / QuaternaryQUEST meeting registration now open, October 27–29 2009
11/04/2008 – Updates to Work Package summaries
14/03/2008 – Addition of Wiki page
03/12/2008 – Addition of Workshops page
Addition of QUEST Dust Working Group page
Addition of QUEST Working Group on Abrupt Climate Change
Links
QUEST homepage: http://quest.bris.ac.uk/
INSU: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
