Equipment Improvements in Support of Research at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station

9311080 Able，K. 罗格斯大学海洋野外考察站位于新泽西塔克顿附近，位于穆利卡河-大湾河口的河口。 这个河口的整个分水岭都被保护在新泽西国家松林保护区内。 该观测站可方便地进入东北海岸最干净的河口的广阔盐沼和河口生境，并可进入大陆架上15米深的一个地点，在那里研究水动力过程、沉积物再悬浮和运输、幼体和幼体定居以及商业鱼类和无脊椎动物物种的补充，正在进行影响海底生物群落的底边界层修复工作。 在该地点建立了一个长期生态系统观测站，以跟踪重要环境参数的偶发和长期变化。 该项目将：（1）提高在受控温度下运输和养护来自远海和大陆架的无脊椎动物和鱼类的能力;（2）改善该地点关于环境因素的数据收集工作，这些环境因素对该地点的一些研究至关重要，例如，一个现有气象站的附加部件、一个盐度计和一个荧光计。 ***

9311080 Able, K. The Rutgers University Marine Field Station is located near Tuckerton, New Jersey, at the mouth of the Mullica River - Great Bay Estuary. The entire watershed of this estuary is protected within the New Jersey National Pinelands Reserve. The station provides easy access to extensive salt marsh and estuarine habitats in the cleanest estuary on the northeast coast, and to a site at 15 m depth on the continental shelf where studies on hydrodynamic processes, sediment resuspension and transport, larval and juvenile settlement and recruitment of commercial species of fish and invertebrates, and bottom boundary layer prosses affecting benthic communities are being conducted. A Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory has been established at this site to track episodic and long-term changes in important environmental parameters. This project will 1) enhance the ability to transport and maintain invertebrates and fishes from the estray and continental shelf under controlled temperatures, and 2) improve data collection at the site on environmental factors fundamental to a number of the studies there, e.g., additional components for an existing meteorological station, a salinometer and a fluorometer. ***