Primary Recipient

YALE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$202,152.00

Award Date

7/27/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The majority of proxy temperature records indicate that during the early Pliocene, roughly 3 to 5 million years ago, the tropical Pacific was characterized by a permanently warm El Nino-like mean state. Specifically, the sea surface temperature (SST) grad