Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$361,286.00

Award Date

7/30/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This is potentially transformative research that focuses on whether the oxygen isotope ratios in phosphate in DNA record the temperature at which organisms grow. Its purpose is to explore the environmental conditions and temperature optima for life in anc