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National Science Foundation Award #0528710

PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

 
Investigator(s): Jill Mikucki (PI)
Sponsor: Mikucki Jill A, MT 59717
Start Date/Expiration Date 2005-10-01 to 2007-09-30 (amended 2005-09-13)
Awarded Amount to Date: $134,600
Abstract: This award is for a postdoctoral fellowship. The investigator will characterize the carbon cycling and microbial diversity in the subglacial lake environment at Blood Falls in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. By using new isotopic biomarker techniques the applicant will explore microbial metabolism in this marine incursion that has likely been isolated from organic inputs since the Pliocene. Her work has implications for understanding the role of such closed systems in historical carbon dioxide cycling on Earth as well as for our understanding of similar systems on other planets.
NSF Org: ANT - Antarctic Sciences Section
Award Number: 0528710
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Bernhard Lettau
ANT Antarctic Sciences Section
OPP Office of Polar Programs
NSF Program(s): POST DOC/TRAVEL
Field Application(s): Polar Programs-Related
Program Reference Code(s): UNASSIGNED, 0000
Program Element Code(s): 5247