U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research on the Physiological Basis for the Annual Cycle of Eucheuma uncinatum from Baja California.

该奖项将支持一个合作研究计划，涉及教授。 B.H.纽约州立大学石溪分校海洋科学研究中心的Brinkhuis 和巴哈自治大学的Jose Zertuche教授 加州，墨西哥。该项目的目标是调查重要的 影响麒麟菜生长和存活的因素 uncinatum，在加州湾。 这项研究应该是 发展海水养殖策略的重要性 重要物种。 由于角叉菜胶可以从麒麟菜中提取， 有利于开发生产这种海藻的方法（实际上是一种海藻） 在受控条件下以商业规模进行。 除了有 在受控条件下生长的普遍愿望，它也 最近变得明显，麒麟菜的自然种群， 加州湾的面积不足以维持 卡拉胶提取工业。然而，人们对它的了解还不够。 麒麟菜的生命周期，特别是关于 它每年的生命周期，光合作用和呼吸作用， 海产养殖 这些知识将通过执行受控的 麒麟菜在水样中的氧交换实验 太阳光的功能，并将辐照度水平与季节性 和深度变化。 补充专业知识和设施， 将使用合作机构，最终结果可能不会 只有更好地理解发生在 麒麟菜，也是巴哈发展的重要产业 加州和其他地方。

This award will support a cooperative research program involving Prof. B.H. Brinkhuis of the Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY-Stony Brook and Prof. Jose Zertuche of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico. The project has the goal of investigating important factors in the growth and survival of the red seaweed, Eucheuma uncinatum, in the Gulf of California. This study should be of importance in developing mariculture strategies for this economically important species. Since carrageenan can be extracted from Eucheuma, it would be beneficial to develop means to produce this seaweed (actually an alga) under controlled conditions on a commercial scale. In addition to the general desirability of growth under controlled conditions, it has also recently become apparent that natural populations of Eucheuma in the Gulf of California are not sufficiently large to sustain a carrageenan-extraction industry. However, not enough is known about the life cycle of Eucheuma--and particularly about the relationship between its annual life cycle and photosynthesis and respiration--to commence mariculture. Such knowledge will be obtained by performing controlled experiments on oxygen exchanges of Eucheuma in water samples as a function of sunlight, and relating the level of irradiance to seasonal and depth variations. Complementary expertise and facilities at the cooperating institutions will be used, and the end result could not only be greater understanding of the cyclical processes that occur in Eucheuma, but also the development of an important industry in Baja California and elsewhere.