Understanding Dynamics of Estuarine Environments: A Sampling Program to Investigate Biotic and Physical Interactions in Upper Narragansett Bay

“了解河口环境动力学”项目是布朗大学附近纳拉甘西特湾修订的海洋科学课程和河口取样计划的核心。通过这笔赠款获得的采样设备包括海鸟CTD系泊设备、溶解氧传感器和现场荧光仪。电除尘器系泊装置的阵列使学生能够获得了解影响种群分布的物理和生物过程所需的特性的连续高分辨率记录。自动系泊与从小船上进行补充采样相结合，使学生能够收集所需的数据，以充分限制环流模式，识别生物和物理过程中自然变异性的规模，并真正理解复杂的河口系统是如何工作的。

The project "UNDERSTANDING DYNAMICS OF ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS" is central to a revised marine science curriculum and an ESTUARINE SAMPLING PROGRAM (ESP) in Narragansett Bay near Brown University. Sampling equipment obtained through this grant consists of moorings of Sea Bird CTDs, dissolved oxygen sensors, and in situ fluorometers. Arrays of the ESP moorings allow the students to obtain continuous high resolution records of the properties needed to understand the physical and biotic processes that influence population distributions. Automated moorings combined with supplementary sampling from small boats enable students to collect the data needed to adequately constrain circulation patterns, identify the scales of natural variability in biotic and physical processes, and develop a true understanding of how complex estuarine systems work.