MRI: Acquisition of an Integrated MultiBeam/Sediment Classification/ Current Profiling System for Interdisciplinary Research in Lake Champlain.

MRI：获取集成多束/沉积物分类/电流剖面系统，用于尚普兰湖的跨学科研究。

• 批准号: 1126491
• 负责人: Patricia Manley
• 金额: $ 49.47万
• 依托单位: Middlebury College
• 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: 2011-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1126491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Integrated; MultiBeam; Sediment

The PI's request funding for an integrated precision-depth multibeam / current-profiling / bottom characterization (MCC) system to be used in lake-studies research and research training (both research based lab classes and faculty-mentored student research) at Middlebury College and within the Lake Champlain basin of Vermont and New York. The MCC system will address a lack of detailed bottom bathymetry, surface sediment characterization, and observations of circulation. Existing data are quite old, of questionable accuracy, limited in scope, and not up to current technological standards. To move interdisciplinary research objectives in the Lake Champlain basin forward over the next 20 years, these issues must be addressed. The MCC system requested will provide these data.Broader Impacts: The PI's and overall teams record and dedication to student training and educational programs is very strong. An outstanding aspect of the proposal and the lake studies program at Middlebury College are their openness for students of other institutions to experience the limnological disciplines and instrumentation. The diversity of disciplinary areas served by the instrumentation is high and also a strength of the proposal. The partnering institutions within the region also suggest strong opportunity for broad interdisciplinary and extended opportunities for students and training functions. There are clear applied uses of datasets collected for both scientific and societal concerns within the Champlain system spanning from water quality, habitat and sediment/nutrient/contaminant dispersal and transport. Multibeam capabilities will undoubtedly be a strong attraction for expanding cooperative research initiatives and partnerships in the region.

PI要求为一个集成的精确深度多波束/电流剖面/底部表征（MCC）系统提供资金，该系统将用于米德尔伯里学院以及佛蒙特州和纽约的尚普兰湖盆地的湖泊研究和研究培训（包括基于研究的实验室课程和教师指导的学生研究）。MCC系统将解决缺乏详细的海底测深、表层沉积物特征和环流观测的问题。现有的数据相当陈旧，准确性值得怀疑，范围有限，不符合当前的技术标准。为了在未来20年内推动尚普兰湖流域的跨学科研究目标，必须解决这些问题。MCC系统将提供这些数据。更广泛的影响：PI和整个团队对学生培训和教育计划的记录和奉献非常强大。该提案和明德学院湖泊研究项目的一个突出方面是，它们对其他机构的学生开放，让他们体验湖沼学学科和仪器。仪器所服务的学科领域的多样性很高，也是该提案的优势。该区域内的合作机构也为学生和培训职能提供了广泛的跨学科和扩展机会的强大机会。有明确的应用程序使用的数据集收集的科学和社会关注的Champlain系统范围内的水质，生境和沉积物/营养物/污染物的扩散和运输。多波束能力无疑将对扩大该区域的合作研究倡议和伙伴关系具有强大的吸引力。