FSML: Field and Laboratory Instrumentation in Support of Interdisciplinary Marine Research at Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama

海豚岛海洋实验室（DISL）服务于阿拉巴马州的海洋科学研究和教学需求。阿拉巴马州海洋环境科学联合会（MESC）代表其22个高等教育成员机构运营DISL，其中3个是少数民族机构。在过去的十年中，DISL一直在扩大其缺陷，本科和研究生教育计划和研究活动。自1997年以来，DISL一直是NSF-REU的站点，最近获得了该计划的三年续签。该实验室还在开发海洋科学领域的少数族裔实习项目，这是阿拉巴马州首个此类项目。MESC和DISL是平权行动/平等机会组织，其设施符合《美国残疾人法》。DISL拥有由10名学术教师组成的大学项目工作人员，他们都是活跃的研究人员和教育工作者。除了从事教育工作外，他们还研究海洋学和海洋生物学的各种基础和应用问题，并为工业界、政府和公众提供建议。研究领域包括水流对生物和生态系统之间营养交换的影响、富营养化对近海岸生态系统水体营养动态和有害藻华的影响、有机硫化合物和其他微量有机化合物的化学海洋学、古海洋学和古生物学、海草群落食草性的时空变异、捕食对重要商业鱼类在幼虫期的作用。以及胶状浮游动物的生态学。这些项目通常是跨学科和多研究者的，涉及到DISL内外的同事之间的合作。DISL教师准备开始一个广泛的多学科研究计划，以阐明沿海生态系统在多个尺度上对环境变化的反应方式。这项研究的核心将是对河口和沿海生态系统中的水文和营养领域进行详细的垂直和水平采样的能力。在这里，pi获得了三件仪器：(1)用于高速地表水特征水平测绘的DATAFLOW IV地表水质量测绘系统（System），(2)集成微型结结的海鸟SBE25 CTD，用于垂直剖面和水采样，以及(3)Skalar公司的一台。SanPlus或0-1分析流解决方案IV五通道营养自动分析仪分析无机营养样品。DISL在研究和教育项目中为其现场和分析仪器项目提供了强有力的支持。这些仪器将提供新的（DATAFLOW和迷你玫瑰花）或现代化的（CTD）和自动分析仪)功能，以支持DISL正在进行和计划中的教育和研究项目。

The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) serves Alabama's research and instructional needs in the marine sciences. The Alabama Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium (MESC) operates DISL on behalf of its 22 member institutions of higher education, three of which are minority institutions. Over the past ten years, the DISL has been expanding its faulty, undergraduate and graduate education programs and research activities. DISL has been an NSF-REU site since 1997 and was recently awarded a three-year renewal for the program. The laboratory is also developing a minority internship program in marine sciences, the first of its kind in Alabama. MESC and DISL are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity organizations, and their facilities are in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. DISL has a University Programs staff of ten academic faculty, all of whom are active researchers and educators. In addition to hands on education, the faculty studies a variety of basic and applied problems in oceanography and marine biology, and they provide advice to industry, government, and the public. Research areas include the effects of water flow on nutrient exchanges between organisms and ecosystems, the effects of eutrophication on water column nutrient dynamics and harmful algal blooms in near-coastal ecosystems, the chemical oceanography of organo-sulfur compounds and other trace organic compounds, paleoceanography and paleobiology, spatial and temporal variability of herbivory in seagrass communities, the role of predation on commercially important fish at the larval stage, and the ecology of gelatinous zooplankton. These programs are frequently interdisciplinary and multi-investigator, involving collaborations between colleagues both within and outside the DISL. The DISL faculty are poised to begin a broad, multidisciplinary research program to elucidate the ways in which coastal ecosystems respond to environmental changes at multiple scales. Central to this research will be the ability to conduct detailed vertical and horizontal sampling of hydrographic and nutrient fields in estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Herein the PIs acquire three pieces of instrumentation: (1) a DATAFLOW IV Surface Water Quality Mapping System (System) for high speed horizontal mapping of surface water characteristics, (2) a Sea-Bird SBE25 CTD with integrated mini-rosette for vertical profiling and water sampling, and (3) a Skalar, Inc. SanPlus or 0-1 Analytical Flow Solution IV five-channel nutrient auto-analyzer for analysis of inorganic nutrient samples. The DISL has a strong record of support for its field and analytical instrumentation program in both research and education programs. These instruments will provide either new (DATAFLOW and mini-rosette) or modernized (CTD) and auto-analyzer) capabilities to support both ongoing and planned education and research programs at the DISL.