RUI: Implementing the Otsego Lake Watershed Plan - Enhancement of Lake Access, Laboratory and Field Instrumentation and Associated Research

RUI：实施奥齐戈湖流域计划 - 加强湖泊通道、实验室和现场仪器及相关研究

• 批准号: 1034744
• 负责人: Willard Harman
• 金额: $ 10.36万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Oneonta
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Implementing; Otsego; Lake; Watershed

The State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta is awarded a grant to support infrastructure improvements at its Biological Field Station (BFS) for a range of coordinated interdisciplinary research projects and research training/education conducted by faculty and staff from SUNY Oneonta, the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill (SUNY Cobleskill), and the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. The construction and acquisition of the instrumentation will enable initiation and refinement of research undertaken in coordination with implementation of the Otsego Lake Watershed Management Plan. Construction entails a series of weirs in tributaries to Otsego Lake, the headwaters of the Susquehanna watershed in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, to facilitate long-term stream hydrologic, sediment and nutrient mass balance monitoring and analysis; the purchase of four boats to replace those acquired with NSF funding in 1970; acquisition of instrumentation to refine acoustic evaluation off Otsego Lake fish populations, to collect fish characterizing tributary water quality, and for analysis of the aquatic biota in both the lake and its tributaries. These improvements will directly enhance BFS faculty, staff and student research involving impacts of land use practices and introduced species on water quality; nutrient availability and cycling; the evaluation inputs by onsite wastewater treatment systems and the mitigation thereof; population dynamics of zoo- and phytoplankton, macrobenthic invertebrates and fish parasites; fisheries biology and management; and biocontrol of exotic forage fish and nuisance aquatic plants. The SUNY Oneonta BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate) in ecological and environmental studies. The improvements will help expand summer internship and academic year undergraduate research programs, enabling more students to master the skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions. It will also enhance resources available to a newly-proposed graduate program, a Master of Science in Lake Management, now close to final SUNY Administration approval. Additionally, the proposed construction and instrumentation will improve our ability to attract quality researchers and form new collaborations. As a model involving academia with local, State and Federal partners, and applying ecological theory directly to water quality management, the impact of BFS research extends beyond the local to regional and national levels.

纽约州立大学奥尼昂塔学院获得了一笔赠款，用于支持其生物野外站（BFS）的基础设施改善，以开展一系列协调的跨学科研究项目和研究培训/教育，这些项目由纽约州立大学奥尼昂塔分校、纽约州立大学科布尔斯基尔农业与技术学院（SUNY Cobleskill）和康奈尔大学纽约州立大学农业与生命科学学院的教职员工进行。这些仪器的建造和购置将有助于开展和改进与奥塞戈湖流域管理计划的执行协调进行的研究。在切萨皮克湾流域的萨斯奎哈纳流域的源头奥塞戈湖的支流上修建一系列堰，以促进长期的河流水文、沉积物和营养物质质量平衡监测和分析；购买了四艘潜艇，以取代1970年由国家科学基金会资助购买的潜艇；获取仪器，以完善Otsego湖鱼类种群的声学评估，收集表征支流水质的鱼类，并分析湖泊及其支流的水生生物群。这些改进将直接加强生物学系教职员和学生的研究，涉及土地使用方法和引进物种对水质的影响；养分有效性和循环；现场污水处理系统的评价输入及其缓解措施；动物园和浮游植物、大型底栖无脊椎动物和鱼类寄生虫的种群动态；渔业生物学和管理；外来饲料鱼和有害水生植物的生物防治。纽约州立大学奥内昂塔分校有很强的培养学生（即将进入大学的高中生、本科生和研究生）生态和环境研究的传统。这些改进将有助于扩大暑期实习和学年本科研究项目，使更多的学生掌握研究生学习或专业培训所需的技能，或获得相关的入门级职位。它还将增加一个新提议的研究生项目——湖泊管理理学硕士项目的可用资源，该项目目前接近纽约州立大学行政部门的最终批准。此外，拟议的建设和仪器将提高我们吸引高质量研究人员和形成新的合作的能力。作为一个涉及地方、州和联邦合作伙伴的学术界，并将生态理论直接应用于水质管理的模式，生物生态系统研究的影响从地方扩展到区域和国家层面。