MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of multiple Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware

MRI-R2 联盟：采购多个环境样本处理器 (ESP) 以及支持系泊和通信硬件

• 批准号: 0958877
• 负责人: Donald Anderson
• 金额: $ 193.42万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Consortium; Acquisition; multiple

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."The PI?s request funds to acquire five Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware to further their research activities and foster collaborations. The ESP?s will be deployed together in an array configuration to obtain real-time data on a wide range of microorganisms and their metabolites. For many years, this has been a distant dream, but that dream is now close to reality with the development and commercialization of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) that is the centerpiece of this proposal. The ESP can be deployed subsurface for months at a time. It collects and processes water samples, identifies and enumerates harmful algal bloom (HAB) species, pathogens, and other microorganisms as well as the concentration of specific metabolites such as algal toxins, and relays the data to shore. To foster greater flexibility, the ESP has been designed with a microfluidic block which allows analytical modules of different types (e.g., quantitative PCR) to be placed downstream of the water processing core. A wide variety of organisms and chemicals of interest to science and society can be analyzed over time scales that are not otherwise possible, all in automated fashion. Broader ImpactsThe potential broader impacts include: educational and outreach benefits from numerous undergraduates, graduate students, post docs, technical staff, and senior faculty working with the ESPs through various projects; various summer internship programs provided by WHOI and Biosecurity, Inc. for undergraduates including minority students; Monterey Bay Aquarium has included the ESP in a program that runs twice a day reaching almost 300,000 people a year; Volunteer phytoplankton researchers from 11 different states will be exposed to the ESP at various training workshops; scientifically, the placement of more ESP's into the ocean and eventually onto mobile platforms will give us the potential to inform and drive adaptive sampling in the way that CTD measurements do now; testing and establishing ESP technology will not only further the proposed research but also contribute to commercial interests that manufacture and sell advanced scientific instrumentation. As the technology is proven, other research groups will seek to incorporate it, and demand for the same or similar instruments will grow; many of the enabled/enhanced projects (research and educational) supported by this proposal are multi-investigator, and even multi-institutional, in nature and would further increase networking and partnering among relevant research groups.

“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”PI？的要求资金，以获得五个环境样品处理器（ESP）和配套的系泊和通信硬件，以进一步他们的研究活动和促进合作。超感知觉将在阵列配置中一起部署，以获得有关各种微生物及其代谢物的实时数据。多年来，这一直是一个遥远的梦想，但随着环境样品处理器（ESP）的开发和商业化，这个梦想现在已经接近现实。ESP可以一次在地下部署数月。它收集和处理水样，识别和计数有害藻华（HAB）物种、病原体和其他微生物以及特定代谢物（如藻毒素）的浓度，并将数据转发到海岸。为了促进更大的灵活性，ESP设计有微流体块，其允许不同类型的分析模块（例如，定量PCR）以放置在水处理核心的下游。科学和社会感兴趣的各种各样的生物和化学物质可以在时间尺度上进行分析，这是不可能的，所有这些都是自动化的。更广泛的影响潜在的更广泛的影响包括：教育和推广的好处，从众多的本科生，研究生，博士后，技术人员和高级教师与ESP通过各种项目工作;各种暑期实习计划由WHOI和生物安全公司提供。对于包括少数民族学生在内的本科生;蒙特雷湾水族馆已经将ESP纳入了一个每天运行两次的计划，每年接近30万人;来自11个不同州的志愿浮游植物研究人员将在各种培训讲习班上接触ESP;从科学上讲，将更多的静电探测器放置在海洋中，并最终放置在移动的平台上，这将使我们有可能以CTD的方式，现在，测量已经完成;测试和建立ESP技术不仅将进一步推进拟议的研究，而且还将有助于制造和销售先进科学仪器的商业利益。随着这项技术得到证明，其他研究小组将设法采用这项技术，对相同或类似仪器的需求也将增加;这项建议所支持的许多已启用/已加强的项目（研究和教育）在性质上是多研究者的，甚至是多机构的，将进一步加强有关研究小组之间的联网和伙伴关系。