University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences Grant

Organization - University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences
Grant Amount - $3,900,000
Foundation - Moore Foundation
Grant Purpose - This grant to the University of Southern California will provide funds to accomplish the major technical engineering, installation of the physical framework, and instrument acquisition needed to set up the seafloor and subseafloor observatory systems at North Pond in the Atlantic Ocean. This instrumentation infrastructure will supplement the proposed drilling operations which include coring sediment and basalt and establishing the physical and technological framework for long-term manipulative experiments and measurements for this system.


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