MRI/RUI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for the UWO Aquatic Research Facility

该奖项支持威斯康星大学奥什科什分校（UWO）水生研究和教育仪器的收购。项目目标是：(1)支持水生生物学和跨学科研究；(2)为大学和K-12教学提供新的机会；(3)开展以科学方法了解和管理水产资源为重点的公众宣传活动。将所有这些目标联系起来的一个主题是利用各种工具研究和监测水生系统的饮用水质量、生态完整性、污染扩散和其他公众关注的问题。需要购置的仪器包括：(1)用于实验外壳的仪器探空仪、传感器和取样器；(2)为现场仪器提供校准和验证的实验室仪器；(3)用于控制实验的人工溪流系统。这些新仪器将支持的研究活动包括Fox-Wolf流域的生物地球化学研究（增加下游研究绿湾富营养化和污染的主要努力），水生消费者生长调节的机制研究，对重新引入努力至关重要的野生水稻的实验研究，以及浮游植物外聚合物生产的生理生态学研究。我们还将把这些设施用作大学课程、本科和研究生项目以及科学教师培训的研究培训工具。

This award supports the acquisition of instrumentation for aquatic research and education at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO). The project goals are to: (1) support aquatic biology and cross-disciplinary research; (2) provide new opportunities for university and K-12 teaching; and (3) initiate public outreach activities focusing on scientific approaches to understand and manage aquatic resources. One theme linking all these goals is the use of instruments to study and monitor aquatic systems for drinking water quality, ecological integrity, pollution dispersal, and other public concerns. Instrumentation to be acquired include: (1) instrument sondes, sensors, and samplers for use in experimental enclosures, (2) laboratory instruments to provide calibration and validation for field instruments; and (3) an artificial streams system for controlled experiments. The research activities that will be supported by these new instruments include biogeochemical studies of the Fox-Wolf watershed (augmenting major efforts downstream to study eutrophication and pollution in Green Bay), mechanistic studies of growth regulation in aquatic consumers, experimental studies of wild rice critical to re-introduction efforts, and physiological ecology studies of phytoplankton exopolymer production. We will also use these facilities as research training tools for university courses, undergraduate and graduate (M.S.) projects, and for science teacher training.