An Oceanographic Buoy for Multidisciplinary Research in a Coastal Embayment Prone to Harmful Algal Blooms (2005)

该项目要求为一个系泊海洋传感仪器浮标提供资金，用于遥感和实时数据采集缅因湾重要的卡斯科湾地区沿海水域的物理、地球化学和生物参数。拟议的仪器将允许持续监测一个代表动态卡斯科湾地区的沿海围堰。Harpswell Sound是一个具有重要经济资源（渔业、旅游业）的水体，周边流域发展迅速，循环特性存在潜在问题，每年都会出现有害藻华（HABs）。海洋传感浮标的部署将提供1)可靠的长期、近连续的背景条件和沿海地区异常事件数据；2)实时指示事件，这些事件将通过现有海洋研究站（鲍登学院海岸研究中心）的辅助研究进行采样或研究；3)缅因湾监测项目（GoMOOS）中重要但目前被忽视的沿海组成部分。海洋传感浮标报告的数据还将支持来自缅因州和新英格兰地区几个机构的大量研究人员，他们承诺参与辅助研究工作。更广泛的影响：拟议系泊的影响将在任何意义上都是广泛的：它将使海洋和非海洋成分的广泛横截面受益，从物理海洋学家和地质学家到大气科学家和生物学家。系泊数据将为许多本科生提供实践课程的材料，项目负责人打算将数据分析、系泊维护和地面真相调查纳入他们的课程。这些数据可能会导致当地赤潮的早期预警系统，以及它们在缅因湾沿岸流中广泛的沿岸平流的潜力。这种系泊有很大的潜在广泛的社会效益，PI已经表明他们意识到了这一点，并将进行必要的宣传和教育。

The PI's request funding for a moored ocean sensing instrumentation buoy, for remote sensing and real-time data acquisition of physical, geochemical and biological parameters of coastal waters in the important Casco Bay region of the Gulf of Maine. The proposed instrumentation would allow continuous monitoring of a coastal embayment representative of the dynamic Casco Bay region. Harpswell Sound is a water body with significant economic resources (fisheries, tourism), rapid development of surrounding watershed, potentially problematic circulation characteristics, and recurrent annual harmful algal blooms (HABs). Deployment of the oceanographic sensing buoy will provide 1) reliable long-term, near-continuous data on background conditions and unusual events of the coastal site, 2) real-time indication of events that would be sampled or studied with ancillary research based at the existing marine research station, Bowdoin College's Coastal Studies Center, and 3) an important and currently neglected coastal component of the Gulf of Maine monitoring program, GoMOOS. The data reported by the oceanographic sensing buoy will also support a large user group of researchers from several institutions throughout the state of Maine and New England region, who have pledged participation in ancillary research efforts. Broader Impacts:The impact of the proposed mooring will be broad in every sense: it will benefit a wide cross-section of oceanographic and non-oceanographic constituents, from physical oceanographers and geologists, to atmospheric scientists and biologists. The mooring data will provide material for practical coursework for numerous undergraduate students, and the PI's intend to incorporate the data analysis, mooring maintenance, and ground truthing into their curricula. The data may lead to an early-warning system for local HABs, and their potential for extensive alongshore advection in the Gulf of Maine coastal current. There is a great deal of potential for extensive societal benefits of this mooring, and the PI's have shown that they are aware of this, and will perform the needed outreach and education.