RUI: Acquisition of Tools for Top-Down Management of Aquatic Systems: Evaluating Success at the Bottom of the Food Chain

RUI：获取水生系统自上而下管理的工具：评估食物链底部的成功

• 批准号: 1226823
• 负责人: Willard Harman
• 金额: $ 9.43万
• 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: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Acquisition; Tools; Top; Down

The State University of New York College at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta) has been awarded a grant for its Biological Field Station (BFS) to acquire an maging flow cytometer for coordinated long-term limnological (fisheries, zooplankton and phytoplankton) monitoring and research, and research training/education conducted by faculty and staff of SUNY Oneonta and the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, and including continued collaboration with Cornell University?s acoustic-based fisheries research program. The instrumentation will provide for rapid zooplankton and phytoplankton detection and image capture for their enumeration and identification in Otsego Lake and nearby lentic water bodies, greatly increasing the numbers of collections of zooplankton and phytoplankton (including cyanobacteria) that can be analyzed in the laboratory. This will enhance the capability to better understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of primary consumers and producers in inland waters. The instrumentation will be used to (1) describe planktonic communities influenced by trophic cascades stimulated by introduced exotics and their management; and (2) enhance plankton analysis, contributing to a number of long-term monitoring and research projects conducted by the BFS and collaborating institutions. Results of work contributing to the restoration and sustainability of Otsego Lake can be compared and articulated with data from other inland and Great lakes, and applied to lakes with similar problems nationwide. Characterizing lakes where there is a reasonable chance of success for top-down management strategies to positively impact symptoms associated with increased primary productivity (eutrophication), or at least increase the filtering efficiencies of large-bodied zooplankton where introduced forage fish have reduced those zooplankton populations, is of great benefit to the lake management community nationwide. These studies have direct application to the local restoration and sustainability of lakes and wetlands in our region and broad relevance to applied natural resource management internationally through the application of technologies and the training of professional managers. The SUNY Oneonta BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate) in ecological and environmental studies. Access to state-of-the-art instrumentation enhances summer internships and academic-year undergraduate research programs, enabling students to master skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions. It also enhances the resources available to a new graduate program, the Master of Science in Lake Management, offered by SUNY Oneonta's Biology Department. For more information about the Biological Field Station please see the website at http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/biofld/.

州立大学纽约学院（SUNY Oakota）已获得一笔赠款，用于其生物野外站（BFS），以获得一台成像流式细胞仪，用于协调长期湖沼学研究。（渔业、浮游动物和浮游植物）监测和研究，以及由纽约州立大学奥赫塔分校和纽约州立大学科布斯基尔农业和技术学院的教职员工进行的研究培训/教育，包括继续与康奈尔大学合作？的声学渔业研究计划。该仪器将提供浮游动物和浮游植物的快速检测和图像捕获，以便在奥塞戈湖和附近的静水水体中进行计数和识别，从而大大增加可在实验室进行分析的浮游动物和浮游植物（包括蓝细菌）的采集数量。这将提高更好地了解内陆沃茨初级消费者和生产者的时空动态的能力。该仪器将用于（1）描述外来物种及其管理刺激的营养级联对浮游生物群落的影响;（2）加强浮游生物分析，为BFS和合作机构进行的一些长期监测和研究项目做出贡献。有助于奥塞戈湖恢复和可持续性的工作成果可以与其他内陆湖和五大湖的数据进行比较和阐述，并适用于全国有类似问题的湖泊。表征湖泊有一个合理的成功机会，自上而下的管理策略，积极影响与初级生产力增加（富营养化）相关的症状，或至少增加大型浮游动物的过滤效率，引进饲料鱼减少了这些浮游动物种群，是全国湖泊管理社区的巨大利益。这些研究直接适用于我们区域湖泊和湿地的当地恢复和可持续性，并通过应用技术和培训专业管理人员，对国际上的应用自然资源管理具有广泛意义。SUNY Oakota BFS在生态和环境研究方面具有培养学生（大学生高中，本科生和研究生）的悠久传统。获得最先进的仪器增强了夏季实习和学年本科研究计划，使学生能够掌握所需的技能，进行研究生学习或专业培训，或获得相关的入门级职位。它还增强了可用于一个新的研究生课程，科学在湖泊管理硕士，由纽约州立大学的生物系提供的资源。有关生物野外站的更多信息，请访问网站http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/biofld/。