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OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) |
Recipient: |
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Initial Amendment Date: | September 12, 2005 |
Latest Amendment Date: | February 26, 2008 |
Award Number: | 0528715 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
William J. Wiseman, Jr.
OPP Office of Polar Programs (OPP) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
Start Date: | October 1, 2005 |
End Date: | May 31, 2009 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $128,200.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $178,800.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2008 = $50,600.00 |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
Los Angeles CA US 90089-0371 |
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Primary Place of Performance: |
Los Angeles CA US 90089-0371 |
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NSF Program(s): | POST DOC/TRAVEL |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.078 |
ABSTRACT
This award is for a postdoctoral fellowship. The investigator will examine to what extent rising climatic temperatures impact antarctic microzooplankton growth and grazing, and to what extent such an impact would modulate top-down control of phytoplankton growth in cold waters. The experimental part of the proposed work would take place in the Ross Sea, a permanently cold ecosystem, and the location of annual large-scale blooms of both diatoms and Phaeocystis antarctica. Changing climate regimes may alter current microzooplankton grazing rates on these blooms either directly through temperature increases or indirectly through algal community shifts. Complementary laboratory experiments on cultures of Antarctic microzooplankton will be conducted to determine the individual and combined effects of temperature and carbon dioxide levels on growth and grazing.
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