The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health

伍兹霍尔海洋与人类健康中心

• 批准号: 0430724
• 负责人: John Stegeman
• 金额: $ 372万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2011-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0430724&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Woods; Hole; Center; Oceans; Human

ABSTRACT OCE-0430724NSF-NIEHS Research Center of Excellence in Oceans and Human Health at the Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWith support from this award, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will establish an NSF-NIEHS Center for Oceans and Human Health (COHH) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This will be a multi-institutional Center, with a mission to be a focal point for research and communication on issues at the intersection of oceanographic, biological and environmental health sciences, to improve the public health. The Center will involve investigators and facilities of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Woods Hole COHH will address fundamental issues of the distribution of biological agents with potential human health consequences, in the theme area of the temperate coastal ocean, including bays, harbors and estuaries. Within this geographic theme, research projects in the Center will focus on harmful algal blooms and on human pathogens and infectious agents, in both cases with focused and complementary physical oceanographic studies and biological studies of causative agents The Center will comprise an Administrative Core and four Research Projects. The Research Projects will be coupled with an advanced Genomics Facility Core, establishing a combination of unusual strength, and supplemented by a Pilot Project program. The proposed Cores and Projects are: an Administrative Core; Project 1. Alexandrium Population Biology in the Gulf of Maine; Project 2. Hydrodynamic forcing of Alexandrium population biology; Project 3. Human Pathogens and Coastal Ocean Processes.; Project 4. Microecology; and Evolution of Two Marine Pathogens; Genomics Facility Core; and a Pilot Projects Program.Broader Impacts: The establishment of a COHH at WHOI is expected to have a number of broader impacts. It will compliment an already strong set of inter-institutional research and educational alliances between WHOI and other organizations involved in marine science. The Center will also focus special attention on an aspect of ocean sciences that has been present at the institution for several decades but with the added dimension of being directed toward interaction with a broader segment of the biomedical community. This center is also expected to play a significant role in the support and training of graduate students and postdoctoral associates for careers related to the oceans and human health.

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所海洋与人类健康卓越研究中心在该奖项的支持下，伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)的研究人员将在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔建立一个NSF-NIEHS海洋与人类健康中心(COHH)。这将是一个多机构中心，其使命是在海洋学、生物科学和环境卫生科学的交叉点上就问题进行研究和交流，以改善公众健康。该中心将涉及伍兹霍尔海洋研究所、海洋生物实验室和麻省理工学院的调查人员和设施。伍兹霍尔气候变化中心将在温带沿海海洋的主题区域，包括海湾、港口和入海口，解决可能对人类健康造成影响的生物制剂分布的基本问题。在这一地理主题范围内，中心的研究项目将侧重于有害藻华以及人类病原体和传染病病原体，在这两种情况下，重点和补充的物理海洋学研究和病原体生物学研究中心将由一个行政核心和四个研究项目组成。研究项目将与先进的基因组学设施核心相结合，建立一个非同寻常的优势组合，并辅之以一个试点项目计划。拟议的核心和项目是：行政核心；项目1.缅因湾亚历山大藻种群生物学；项目2.亚历山大藻种群生物学的水动力强迫作用；项目3.人类病原体和沿海海洋过程；项目4.微生态；两种海洋病原体的进化；基因组学设施核心；以及一项试点项目方案.广泛影响：在世界卫生组织设立COHH预计将产生一些更广泛的影响。它将补充世界卫生组织和其他参与海洋科学的组织之间业已强大的机构间研究和教育联盟。该中心还将特别关注海洋科学的一个方面，该方面已经在该机构存在了几十年，但增加了一个方面，即致力于与更广泛的生物医学界进行互动。预计该中心还将在支持和培训研究生和博士后伙伴从事与海洋和人类健康有关的职业方面发挥重要作用。