MRI/RUI: Acquisition of a High-Speed Digital Motion Analysis System for Studying Multi-Scale Interactions in a Fluid environment.

在迈克尔·格雷厄姆博士的指导下，莫斯·兰丁海洋实验室获得了一笔赠款，用于购买多尺度流体分析系统(MFAS)。该系统代表了最先进的仪器的组合，用于在实验室环境中引入生物体流动，并可视化和量化有机体对流动的反应。MFAS的收购将为MLML的研究人员和整个蒙特利湾的伙伴机构提供必要的资源，以研究海洋科学的广泛专题。拟议的研究主题从幼体定居的小范围变异性到海洋鱼类的摄食运动学，以及测试采样设备和遥感仪器的效力和准确性。因此，MFAS大力加强了MLML多层次研究人员正在进行的研究计划，所有这些研究项目都有着对海洋科学领域做出重大贡献的悠久历史。MFAS将提供的不仅仅是一个研究平台，因为它将通过现有的海洋科学课程和以MFAS为中心的新课程直接纳入MLML的课程。MFAS将向MLML硕士学位学生提供与个别课程和论文相关的研究项目，以及来自七个联盟校区(其中两个是为少数群体服务的机构)中任何一个的本科生。此外，该系统还将用于：(1)在一个将K-12教师带到MLML的既定方案中，以便获得使用海洋仪器的实践经验，并将海洋研究概念纳入K-12课程；(2)通过有组织的研究设施参观，作为公众宣传的焦点；(3)以有利于广泛传播的形式(例如WWW)包装MLML教职员工和学生的研究成果。我们预测，由于MFA收集数据的固有可视化格式，将对普通公众产生更广泛的影响。这样的数据本身就对观众有吸引力，有助于打破通常将科学家与非科学公众区分开来的障碍。

A grant has been awarded to Moss Landing Marine Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Michael Graham for the acquisition of a Multi-scale Fluid Analysis System (MFAS). This system represents a combination of state-of-the-art instrumentation for introducing organisms to flow in a laboratory setting, and visualizing and quantifying organismal responses to flow. Acquisition of the MFAS will provide researchers at MLML and partner institutions throughout Monterey Bay with the resources necessary to study a broad range of topics in marine science. Proposed research topics range from small-scale variability in larval settlement to the feeding kinematics of marine fishes and the testing of the efficacy and accuracy of sampling devices and remote sensing instrumentation. As such, the MFAS strongly enhances the ongoing research program of MLML researchers at multiple levels, all of which have a long history of significant contribution to the field of marine science.The MFAS will provide more than just a research platform, as it will be directly incorporated into the MLML curricula through established courses in marine science and a novel course centered around the MFAS. The MFAS will be made available to MLML MS degree students for individual course- and thesis-related research projects, as well as undergraduate students from any of seven consortium campuses (two of which are minority-serving institutions). In addition, the system will be used: (1) in an established program that brings K-12 teachers to MLML in order to gain hands-on experience in using marine instrumentation and incorporate marine research concepts into K-12 curricula; (2) as a focal point of public outreach through organized tours of the research facility; (3) to package the results of MLML faculty and student research in a form conducive to broad-scale dissemination (e.g. WWW). We predict there will be broader impacts for the general public due to the inherently visual format in which data are collected with the MFAS. Such data are inherently appealing to viewers and can help to break down barriers that generally separate scientists from the non-scientific public.