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Foraminifera: a Tool for Dating and AssessingClimatic and Ecosystem Change inEstuarine and Marine Environments
Mary McGann
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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• What are foraminifera?
• What can they tell us about historic climate records?
• What are possible effects of recent climate changeon the microfauna?
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FORAMINIFERA
1. Protozoans
2. Pseudopodia
3. Sensitive to environmental change
4. Micro- and meio-faunal size (63-500 microns)
5. Form hard external skeleton (test)
6. Brackish and marine
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250 m
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Planktic(Marine)
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Benthic(Brackish and Marine)
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60,000 Species: Numerous Biofacies
Estuarine
Marine
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Foraminiferal Reproduction
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1 meter
1 meter2 cm
How Many Foraminifera?
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1 meter
1 meter2 cm
4 MILLION!
How Many Foraminifera?
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Marine and Estuarine Food Web
BACTERIA
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What can foraminifera tell us about historic
climate records?
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Sediment Age
Paleoclimatology
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- Half-life of carbon is
5720 years
CARBON 14 DATING
- Useful back to ~ 40,000 years ago
(Estuarine and Marine)
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Mg/CaSr/Ca
WATERTEMPERATURE
ELEMENTAL RATIOS:
(Estuarine and Marine)
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y = 4.4289 Ln (x) = 11.682
y = water temperature (oC)x = Mg/Ca
Mg/Ca and Water Temperature
Estuaries: Elphidum excavatum
Species Specific Equations
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y = 4.4289 Ln (x) = 11.682
y = water temperature (oC)x = Mg/Ca
Mg/Ca and Water Temperature
Estuaries: Elphidum excavatum
Species Specific Equations
Marine: Uvigerina peregrina
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y = 4.4289 Ln (x) = 11.682
y = water temperature (oC)x = Mg/Ca
Mg/Ca and Water Temperature
Estuaries: Elphidum excavatum
Species Specific Equations
Marine: Uvigerina peregrina
Cibicides wullerstorfi
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COLD WARM
COIL
(Marine)
Neogloboquadrinapachyderma
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18O, 13C
SALINITY(and ice volume)
Sr/Ca
ISOTOPES:
ELEMENTAL RATIOS:
(Estuarine and Marine)
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Ammonia beccariiAbundant in
oxygen-depletedenvironments
Ammonia-Elphidium (A-E) Index and Hypoxia
Elphidium excavatumAbundant inoxygen-rich
environments
AE
LowerOxygen
Conditions
AE
HigherOxygen
Conditions
(Estuarine)
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Core DJ-6
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6 14C Measurements
3900 years
Age-Depth Model
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Cluster Analysis of the Fauna
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Mg/Ca and Temperature
Warm
Cold
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Isotopes and Salinity
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Ammonia-Elphidium Index
Low O2
High O2
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San Francisco Bay Airport Core3,900 year record
Late Little Ice Age (1760-1880)
Early Little Ice Age (1490-1570)Conventional Medieval Warm
Period (1040-1340)
Early Medieval Warm Period (490-940)
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DetailedSummary of
San Francisco BayClimate
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What are possible effects of recentclimate change on the microfauna?
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Tropics: foraminifera are often large and commonly have symbiotic algae
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Tropical Foraminifera With Symbiotic Algae
AmphisorusAmphisteginaBorelisHeterosteginaPeneroplis
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Causes of BleachingPhoto-oxidative stress due to high irradiance or
normal irradiance with elevated SST
Loss of symbionts or symbiont pigments
Has occurred in subtropical oceans:1988, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2005
What is Bleaching?
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Bleaching in the Foraminifera Amphistegina
In conjuction with global temperature monitoring, bleaching in foraminifera can forecast mass coral-bleaching events and their susceptibility to diseasePh
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Coral Reefs: bleaching in forams first, then corals
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BLEACHING
IS a concern at sites in the Atlantic OceanIs NOT presently a concern in Hawaii
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SLR - Shoreline Transgression and Sediment Resuspension
= Turbidity
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Hawaiian Islands, USA
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Hawaiian Islands, USA
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673 sq km (260 sq miles)S shore - longest continuous fringing reef of the USAN & W coasts little coral growth due to NW swells
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Watershed Degradation
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Abundance of Specimens with Symbiotic Algae
92% 69%Coarse SedimentClear Water
5%0-1%
Muddy SedimentTurbid Water
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Tropical Foraminifera With Symbiotic Algae
AmphisorusAmphisteginaBorelisHeterosteginaPeneroplis
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Tropical Foraminifera With Symbiotic Algae
AmphisorusAmphisteginaBorelisHeterosteginaPeneroplis
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Tropical Foraminifera Without Symbiotic Algae
AmmoniaAmmotiumBolivinaBuliminellaEggerellaElphidiumFissurinaMiliamminaNonionellaQuinqueloculinaRosalinaSpirillina
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Hunters Point Super Fund Site
RESUSPENSION = POTENTIAL RELEASE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS
Heavy MetalsOrganic Solvents
Hydrocarbons
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MORPHOLOGICDEFORMITIES
DEAD ZONES
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SST Predicted 2-3oC
= Thermal Pollution Present Today Near Some Power Plants
Deformed Foraminifera
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CO2 Increases:Ocean AcidificationCaCO3 dissolves
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Marine and Open Bay Foraminifera
Calcium Carbonate Sand Grains
Marsh & Mudflats
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Marine and Open Bay Foraminifera
Calcium Carbonate Sand Grains
Marsh & Mudflats
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1980s
Stressed Environments:Invasive Organisms
Drought
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Foraminifera
Provide paleoclimatic record - age dating, temperature, salinity, oxygenIncreased SST and irradiance - can forecast mass bleaching events in coralsSLR - increased turbidity, loss of symbionts, faunal alterationSLR - sediment resuspension, release of toxins, deformed shells, dead zonesIncreased SST and SLR - faunal spatial ranges alteratedOcean acidification - loss of calcareous shellsStressed environments - increase in invasive speciesFood web - change fauna near the base affects all organisms above it
Foraminifera
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Thank you!