Christian Pagel
Undergraduate Student
Bio
My research focuses on analyzing coral-reef cores from Christmas Island. These cores are from the Holocene Epoch and date back from about 5000 years old to 1200 years old. The purpose of analyzing these cores is to determine whether there is a ~2000-year hiatus in reef growth that has been recorded in other parts of the Pacific. Determining if this hiatus was happening in other regions could be the key to determining why this hiatus was happening in the first place. The palaeoecological analysis of these cores provides valuable insight into what ocean conditions were like thousands of years ago and can help us predict the future responses of coral reefs.
