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）已向旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学的海洋科学实验室和教学设施Romberg Tiburon中心（RTC）提供赠款。 这笔赠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弗朗西斯科湾北岸的RTC。 由于该地区的海洋物理、化学和生物学的动态变化，旧金山弗朗西斯科湾河口是一个不断变化的天气、盐度、温度、透明度、水流方向、太阳辐照度和浮游植物（微观藻类）浓度条件的地方。海洋科学家需要长期记录这些情况，以便将针对具体项目的观测结果纳入海湾情况在不同时间尺度上的变化。 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。这笔赠款将用于建立一个气象站，记录温度、风速和风向、气压、降雨量和太阳辐照度。此外，将在RTC码头附近的一系列海水深度放置传感器，以记录水质状况。将连续收集所有数据，保存在RTC的工作站计算机上，并绘制图表以显示每分钟的趋势。这些信息将提供给海湾其他实验室和海湾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适应河口的生物学和物理学趋势。 可以记录海湾水的变暖或盐度的长期变化。 将在RTC的一个地点建造一个数据中心，公众可以轻松访问。SFSU还将通过网站向公众提供数据。该大学预计，学生将发现信息是一个很好的学习工具，他们可以研究潮汐，季节，天气和海湾沃茨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.