TOWUTI - The Towuti Drilling Project

Beschreibung

Towuti is located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, in the heart of the Indo-Pacific warm pool.   It is home to unique, endemic rainforests, fishes, and other organisms, and is housed in the metal-rich East Sulawesi ophiolite, the third largest ophiolite field on Earth.  Our project will use cores from this lake to reconstruct long-term climate change in the tropical western Pacific, understand the environmental conditions in which the region's ecosystems developed, and document the geomicrobiological processes at work in metal-rich lake sediment.