FSML: Environmental Monitoring System For The Romberg Tiburon Center

美国国家科学基金会的生物野外站和海洋实验室（FSML）向Romberg Tiburon中心（RTC）授予了一笔赠款，该中心是旧金山州立大学的海洋科学实验室和教学设施。这笔拨款将用于购买一个长期的环境监测系统，该系统将位于旧金山湾北岸的RTC。由于该地区海洋物理、化学和生物的动态变化，旧金山湾河口是一个不断变化的天气、盐度、温度、清晰度、洋流方向、太阳辐照度和浮游植物（微观藻类）浓度的场所。海洋科学家需要这些条件的长期记录，以便将特定项目的观测结果置于不同时间尺度上海湾条件变化的背景下。此外，预期的长期气候变化只能通过海湾的条件记录来评估。这笔资金将用于建立一个气象站，该气象站将记录温度、风速和风向、气压、降雨量和太阳辐照度。此外，传感器将被放置在RTC码头附近的一系列海水深度处，以记录水质状况。所有数据将连续收集，保存在RTC的工作站计算机上，并以图表显示每分钟的趋势。这些资料将提供给湾区内其他实验室和湾区外附近海洋实验室的科学家。该系统收集的信息有许多直接的应用。例如，这些数据将帮助在研究船上工作的科学家了解他或她的观察结果如何符合河口的生物学和物理学趋势。湾水的变暖或盐度的长期变化可以被记录下来。数据中心将建在RTC的一个方便公众访问的地点。旧金山州立大学还将通过网站向公众提供这些数据。大学期望学生发现这些资料是一个很好的学习工具，他们可以借此研究潮汐、季节、天气和海湾水域生物之间的相互作用。

The National Science Foundation's Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) has awarded a grant to the Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC), the marine science laboratory and teaching facility of San Francisco State University. This grant will fund the purchase of a long-term environmental monitoring system that will be located on the north shore of San Francisco Bay at the RTC. Because of the dynamics of marine physics, chemistry, and biology in the region, the San Francisco Bay estuary is a site of constantly changing conditions of weather, salinity, temperature, clarity, current direction, solar irradiance and phytoplankton (microscopic algae) concentrations. Marine scientists need a long-term record of these conditions to place project-specific observations into the context of changes in Bay conditions over various temporal scales. Furthermore, anticipated long-term changes in climate can only be assessed via a record of conditions in the Bay. Funds from the grant will be used to establish a weather station that will record temperature, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, rainfall and solar irradiance. In addition, sensors will be placed at a series of seawater depths off the RTC pier to record water quality conditions. All data will be collected continuously, saved on a workstation computer at the RTC, and graphed to show minute by minute trends. The information will be available to scientists from other laboratories both on the Bay and at nearby marine laboratories outside the Bay. There are many immediate applications for the information collected by this system. For example, the data will help a scientist working on a research ship to understand how his or her observations fit into trends in the biology and physics of the estuary. Long term changes in warming or in salinity of the Bay water can be documented. A Data Center will be constructed at a site at the RTC that is easily accessible to the public. SFSU will also make the data available to the public via a website. The University anticipates that students will find the information to be an excellent learning tool in which they can study the interplay among the tides, seasons, weather and the biology of bay waters.