Collaborative Research-BES: FerryMon, unattended water quality monitoring utilizing advanced environmental sensing

0606929 Paerl该项目描述了一个试验台环境观测计划，涉及利用北卡罗来纳州帕姆利科湾的定期渡轮过境点收集连续的水质数据。FerryMon是在2000年左右建立的，以应对在北卡罗来纳州海岸造成大规模洪水和水质问题的主要热带风暴系统。自成立以来，基本数据收集方案一直得到州和地方机构的支持。该项目提供资金：（1）装备FerryMon，以便在重大水文和其他干扰之后进行快速水质评估;（2）为连续监测获得的大型数据集制定和执行数据管理计划。鉴于热带风暴活动的预计增加，对沿海水质的影响，FerryMon和类似的计划是沿海环境观测站的潜在宝贵资产。这个试验台项目建立在现有的研究计划，这将有助于区分河口和海湾的藻类水华的营养负荷和气候驱动因素的作用。将安装在渡轮上的仪器和浮标代表了测量浅水河口水动力条件和确定藻类色素成分的尖端技术。后者将有助于确定藻类的主要类别，包括那些被认为有害和有毒的藻类。参与者一直是开发这种环境观测站的领导者，该试验台将为IOOS等观测站业务工作提供潜在的联系。教育的影响是针对研究生，本科和高中年龄的学生，并提出了大量的学生参与，包括本科生传统上在科学代表性不足的群体。海报和小册子将准备有关FerryMon计划，显示在渡轮上，并分发给教师。

0606929PaerlThis project describes a test-bed environmental observatory program that involves collection of continuous water-quality data capitalizing on regular ferry crossings in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. FerryMon was instituted around 2000 in response to major tropical storm systems that had caused massive flood and water-quality problems on the NC coast. Since its inception, the basic data-gathering program has been supported by state and local agencies. This project provides funds to: (1) equip FerryMon for rapid water quality assessment following major hydrological and other disturbances and (2) develop and perform data management schemes for the large data sets obtained from continuous monitoring. In light of projected increases in tropical storm activity, with implications for coastal water quality, FerryMon and like programs are potentially valuable assets for coastal environmental observatories. This test-bed project builds upon an existing research program that will help distinguish the roles of nutrient loading and climatic drivers of algal blooms in the estuary and bay. Instrumentation to be installed on the ferries and a buoy represents cutting-edge technology to measure hydrodynamic conditions in the shallow estuary and determine algal pigment composition. The latter will help to identify major classes of algae, including those considered harmful and toxic. The PIs have been leaders in the development of this kind of environmental observatory, and the test bed will provide potential links to operational observatory efforts such as IOOS. Education impacts are targeted at graduate, undergraduate, and high school aged students, and substantial student involvement is proposed, including undergraduates from groups traditionally under-represented in science. Posters and pamphlets will be prepared about the FerryMon program, displayed on a ferry, and distributed to teachers.