Primary Recipient

CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES, INC.

Amount

$179,999.00

Award Date

8/27/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Eutrophication represents a major regime shift in freshwater lakes marked by a reduction in water quality that includes frequent, sometimes toxic, blooms of nuisance cyanobacteria. T he nitrogen-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata, whic