Primary Recipient

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$117,116.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Seafloor hydrothermal vents that expel fluids with temperatures from ~2C to less than 400C, provide habitats for a diversity of microbes that subsist off geochemical fluxes from Earth's interior as opposed to making food from sunlight. Many vent micro-org