International Research Fellow Awards: Upwelling Patterns and Marine Plant-Herbivore Interactions: Linking Benthic and Pelagic Processes

小行星9802715 国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持俄勒冈州州立大学的Karina J. Nielsen博士与Sergio A.智利圣地亚哥天主教大学的纳瓦尔尼特和胡安卡洛斯卡斯蒂利亚，以及布鲁斯A.位于俄勒冈州科瓦利斯的俄勒冈州州立大学的门吉和简·卢布琴科。 她的研究是上升流模式和海洋植物草食动物的相互作用。 具体来说，尼尔森博士和她的智利合作者将研究智利中部海岸沿着的几个地点，这些地点具有不同的群落组成，并且在生产力和上升流条件方面存在重要差异，以测量营养物质、大型藻类和食草动物之间联系的性质和强度。 尼尔森博士回到俄勒冈州后，她将把她的结果与她的美国合作者在新西兰和俄勒冈州所做的工作进行比较。 这项研究将提供关于太平洋北部和东南部沿着岩石潮间带群落结构和动态的基线数据，从而能够评价全球变化对沿海海洋群落的生态影响。 Navarete博士是拉斯克鲁塞斯Estacion Costera de Investigaciones Marinas的主任，该中心是南美洲最好的海洋研究设施之一。 除了Naviente博士和Castilla博士外，Nielsen博士还将与Bernabe Santelices博士和Juan Correas博士密切合作，他们是潮间带大型藻类生理学和生态学方面的世界专家。 ***

9802715 Nielsen The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twentyfour months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twenty-four-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Karina J. Nielsen of Oregon State University to work with Drs. Sergio A. Navarrete and Juan Carlos Castilla at Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, and with Professor Bruce A. Menge and Jane Lubchenco at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Her research is on upwelling patterns and marine plant herbivore interactions. Specifically, Dr. Nielsen and her Chilean collaborators will look at several sites along the central Chilean coast which have different community composition and which have important differences in productivity and upwelling conditions to measure the nature and intensity of the link between nutrients, macroalgae and herbivory. Upon Dr. Nielsen's return to Oregon, she will compare her results with work done in New Zealand and Oregon by her U.S. collaborators. This research will provide baseline data on the structure and dynamics of rocky intertidal communities along both north and southeastern Pacific shores, allowing the evaluation of the ecological consequences of global change on coastal marine communities. Dr. Navarrete is the director of the Estacion Costera de Investigaciones Marinas of Las Cruces, which is one of the best facilities for marine research in South America. In addition to Drs. Navarrete and Castilla, Dr. Nielsen will be working closely with Drs. Bernabe Santelices and Juan Correas, who are world experts on the physiology and ecology of intertidal macroalgae. ***