Environmental Sensor Network for the Lake Erie Center

伊利湖中心环境传感器网络

• 批准号: 1034791
• 负责人: Carol Stepien
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: University of Toledo
• 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: 2010-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Environmental; Sensor; Network; Lake; Erie

The University of Toledo is awarded a grant to will implement an environmental sensor network system at the Lake Erie Center (LEC) to assess lake/bay/river changes and analyze key environmental influences. Lake Erie Center is an interdisciplinary research and education center dedicated to solving environmental problems at the land-water interface and bay-lake exchanges in the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. The location of the LEC on the shore of western Lake Erie provides lake access and proximity to agricultural and wetland habitats, at the gateway to the upper and lower Great Lakes. LEC research focuses on linkages between land use, aquatic resources, and ecosystem function and services, using the western Lake Erie Basin land-lake continuum as a model of Laurentian Great Lakes ecosystems and aquatic systems worldwide. The project will establish the first carbon, energy, and hydrologic flux network within the Great Lakes, allowing researchers for the first time to understand the carbon, energy, and hydrologic budgets. The equipment will facilitate leverage of new federal, state, and private research funding and develop key collaborations such as with NOAA/GLERL, GLEON, and AmerFlux. Capitalizing on the advantageous location and facilities at the LEC, the project will measure the exchange of carbon dioxide and water between the lake surface and the atmosphere, as well as the key associated ecosystem parameters (e.g., microclimate and water properties) to support mechanistic explorations of Lake Erie. The sensor network will include two permanent monitoring stations to be installed on existing structures and a shipboard station to support essential experiments on Lake Erie. Findings will provide important comparisons and exportation to aquatic systems worldwide. Data collected from the network will be open to the public and serve as the foundation for promoting collaborative research and education on environmental change and sustainability in the Great Lakes.The new sensor network will significantly enhance development of the LEC as an environmental research and education leader, serving as a state-of-the-art website and tour demonstration, located just next door to the popular Maumee Bay State Park. The LEC features a popular monthly public seminar series on environmental research, weekly public and school group tours, a new NSF Gk-12 program for Graduate fellows in 8 local high schools (reaching 600 students per year), and a new NSF URM Undergraduate Research and Mentoring program; all interfaced in a land-lake Environmental Science Learning Community that will network with the new sensor research program and our website. The projects facilitated by the proposed sensor equipment will substantially augment our understanding of complex ecosystem functioning by improving scientific infrastructure and by increasing interactions among scientific disciplines. Scientists, agencies, environmental groups, post-doctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, teachers, high school students, and the public have joined forces at the Lake Erie Center to study Great Lakes land-water interactions as a model of aquatic ecosystems worldwide. The new sensor network will greatly enhance and grow these educational and research opportunities through this well-interfaced environmental science learning community to serve as an educational and research model for the nation. For more information about the Lake Erie Center, visit their website at http://www.utoledo.edu/as/lec/.

托莱多大学获得了一笔赠款，将在伊利中心（LEC）实施环境传感器网络系统，以评估湖泊/海湾/河流的变化并分析关键的环境影响。伊利湖中心是一个跨学科的研究和教育中心，致力于解决世界上最大的淡水生态系统五大湖的陆地-水界面和海湾-湖泊交换的环境问题。LEC位于伊利湖西部的海岸，是通往五大湖上游和下游的门户，提供了湖泊通道，靠近农业和湿地栖息地。LEC研究的重点是土地利用，水生资源和生态系统功能和服务之间的联系，使用西部伊利湖盆地陆地湖泊连续体作为劳伦特五大湖生态系统和全球水生系统的模型。该项目将在五大湖内建立第一个碳、能源和水文通量网络，使研究人员首次了解碳、能源和水文预算。该设备将促进新的联邦，州和私人研究资金的杠杆作用，并发展与NOAA/GLERL，GLEON和AmerFlux等关键合作。利用LEC的有利位置和设施，该项目将测量湖面和大气之间的二氧化碳和水的交换，以及关键的相关生态系统参数（例如，小气候和水的性质），以支持伊利湖的机械探索。传感器网络将包括两个将安装在现有结构上的永久监测站和一个支持在伊利湖上进行基本实验的船上监测站。研究结果将提供重要的比较和出口到世界各地的水生系统。 从该网络收集的数据将向公众开放，并作为促进五大湖环境变化和可持续性合作研究和教育的基础。新的传感器网络将大大加强LEC作为环境研究和教育领导者的发展，作为一个最先进的网站和旅游示范，位于受欢迎的莫米湾州立公园旁边。LEC的特点是一个受欢迎的每月公开研讨会系列环境研究，每周公众和学校团体图尔斯，一个新的NSF GK-12计划研究生研究员在8个当地高中（达到每年600名学生），和一个新的NSF URM本科生研究和指导计划;所有接口在陆地湖泊环境科学学习社区，将网络与新的传感器研究计划和我们的网站。由拟议的传感器设备推动的项目将通过改善科学基础设施和增加科学学科之间的互动，大大增加我们对复杂生态系统功能的理解。 科学家，机构，环保团体，博士后学者，研究生和本科生，教师，高中生和公众已经加入了伊利湖中心的力量，研究五大湖陆地-水的相互作用，作为全球水生生态系统的模型。 新的传感器网络将通过这个界面良好的环境科学学习社区大大增强和增加这些教育和研究机会，成为国家的教育和研究模式。有关伊利湖中心的更多信息，请访问他们的网站http://www.utoledo.edu/as/lec/。