Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$148,860.00

Award Date

8/18/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Global climate change is altering polar marine ecosystems through rising temperatures and ocean acidification. Benthic communities in Antarctica face an additional threat: the unprecedented, climatically driven invasion of predators from temperate and sub