Primary Recipient

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$294,755.00

Award Date

6/19/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This award supports a project to develop a precise gas-based chronology for an archive of large-volume samples of the ancient atmosphere, which would enable ultra-trace gas measurements that are currently precluded by sample size limitations of ice cores.