US-Chile Planning Visit: Ecological Forecasting of Intertidal Ecosystems in Chile

美国-智利规划访问：智利潮间带生态系统的生态预测

• 批准号: 0853437
• 负责人: Brian Helmuth
• 金额: $ 1.86万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853437&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Chile; Planning; Visit; Ecological

This U.S - Chile Planning Visit proposal will support four senior and one junior researchers and two students from the U.S., under the direction of Dr. Brian Helmuth of University of South Carolina-Columbia, on a planning visit to Chile in July 2009. The primary goal of this visit is to develop a collaboration between researchers at University of South Carolina, Columbia, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. In this collaboration, researchers will develop and test mathematical models for predicting how climate change will affect marine communities, specifically intertidal organisms along the Chilean coastline. The team will meet with Dr. Sergio Navarrete of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, one of the leading marine ecologists in Chile, and Dr. Bernardo Broitman of Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile, an expert in biophysical coupling. During the visit, the researchers will select study sites for further analysis, collect preliminary data for their model, and a develop a strategy for future collaborations. The investigators plan to submit joint proposals to NSF and FONDECYT, the Chilean funding agency. The visit will involve one early-career researcher and two students, one graduate and one undergraduate. It has the potential to generate a series of future comparative studies on marine communities in the northern and southern hemispheres and will further our understanding of climate change effects on coastal ecosystems.

这项美国-智利计划访问提案将在南卡罗莱纳-哥伦比亚大学布赖恩·赫尔穆斯博士的指导下，支持来自美国的四名高级研究人员和一名初级研究人员以及两名学生计划于2009年7月访问智利。这次访问的主要目标是发展南卡罗来纳大学哥伦比亚分校、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、智利教皇大学Católica和智利北方大学Católica的研究人员之间的合作。在这项合作中，研究人员将开发和测试数学模型，以预测气候变化将如何影响海洋群落，特别是智利海岸线上的潮间带生物。该小组将会见智利教皇大学Católica的Sergio Navarrete博士，他是智利主要的海洋生态学家之一，以及智利北部大学Católica的生物物理耦合专家Bernardo Broitman博士。在访问期间，研究人员将选择研究地点进行进一步分析，为他们的模型收集初步数据，并为未来的合作制定战略。研究人员计划向国家科学基金会和智利资助机构FONDECYT提交联合提案。此次访问将包括一名早期研究人员和两名学生，一名研究生和一名本科生。它有可能在未来产生一系列关于北半球和南半球海洋群落的比较研究，并将进一步加深我们对气候变化对沿海生态系统影响的理解。