Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Amount

$457,059.00

Award Date

6/29/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past two centuries have led to increasing carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans. This process, which is decreasing the pH of the upper ocean, is reducing oceanic carbonate ion concentrations and thus