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

在Michael Graham博士的指导下，Moss Landing海洋实验室获得了一笔赠款，用于购置多尺度流体分析系统（MFAS）。该系统结合了最先进的仪器，用于在实验室环境中引入生物流动，并对生物对流动的反应进行可视化和量化。MFAS的收购将为蒙特雷湾MLML和合作机构的研究人员提供必要的资源，以研究广泛的海洋科学主题。拟议的研究主题包括从幼虫定居的小规模变异性到海洋鱼类的摄食运动学，以及采样设备和遥感仪器的有效性和准确性的测试。因此，MFAS在多个层面上有力地加强了MLML研究人员正在进行的研究计划，这些研究人员都对海洋科学领域做出了重大贡献。MFAS将提供的不仅仅是一个研究平台，因为它将通过海洋科学的既定课程和以MFAS为中心的新课程直接纳入MLML课程。MFAS将提供给MLML硕士学位学生进行个人课程和论文相关的研究项目，以及来自七个联合校区（其中两个是少数民族院校）的本科生。此外，该系统将用于：(1)将K-12教师引入MLML的既定计划，以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)通过组织参观研究设施，作为公众宣传的焦点；(3)将教师和学生的MLML研究成果打包成一种有利于大规模传播的形式（例如WWW）。我们预测，由于MFAS收集数据的固有视觉格式，将对公众产生更广泛的影响。这样的数据天生就对观众有吸引力，并且可以帮助打破通常将科学家与非科学公众分开的障碍。

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.