MRI:Development of an autonomous four dimensional planktonic microbial environmental sampling and survey system: MiVEGAS

MRI：自主四维浮游微生物环境采样和调查系统的开发：MiVEGAS

• 批准号: 1337601
• 负责人: Christopher Scholin
• 金额: $ 235.59万
• 依托单位: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1337601&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Development; autonomous; four; dimensional

The PI's request funding to design, build, integrate, field test, and make available a stable shared-use instrument called that Multiple Vehicle EcoGenomic Automated Sampler (MiVEGAS), for a broad community of microbial oceanographers across the United States. The MiVEGAS is a novel instrument comprised of an integrated robot system that can automatically and adaptively survey, sample and preserve different size classes of microbial plankton. Deployments can range from a few days to over three weeks. The robot system can be launched from shore unattended by ships. It can survey and sample to depths of 300 m, with an operational range exceeding 1000 kilometers and an endurance of greater than 10 days. The MiVEGAS instrument has the potential to provide capabilities that no other instrument available today, and will provide new ways to observe and characterize diverse microbial plankton, enabling correlation of oceanographic parameters with microbial diversity and activity at high spatial and temporal resolution. The joint development effort is a collaboration between the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Center for Microbial Ecology: Research and Education (C-MORE), a multi-institutional NSF-sponsored Science and Technology Center. Broader Impacts: With the proposed development there are many excellent opportunities for training and development of students and technicians. The combined technology has the potential to collect extremely useful data. The knowledge gained will be fundamental to our understanding of productivity in the oceans and of climate change; the proposal will foster interdisciplinary interactions among engineers, machinists, oceanographers, molecular biologists, genomicists, and microbiologists; and attention to minority and educational outreach is appropriate. Both institutions have a strong background supporting education and research and have existing mechanisms to engage students ranging from middle school to graduate school including women and underrepresented groups, including naïve islanders.

PI的要求资金设计，建造，集成，现场测试，并提供一个稳定的共享使用的仪器，称为多车辆生态基因组自动采样器（MiVEGAS），为美国各地的微生物海洋学家广泛的社区。MiVEGAS是一种新型仪器，由一个集成的机器人系统组成，可以自动和自适应地调查，采样和保存不同大小的浮游微生物。部署时间从几天到三周不等。该机器人系统可以在无人值守的情况下从海岸下水。它可以测量和采样到300米的深度，作业范围超过1000公里，续航时间超过10天。MiVEGAS仪器有可能提供当今其他仪器无法提供的能力，并将提供观察和表征各种浮游微生物的新方法，使海洋学参数与微生物多样性和高时空分辨率的活动相互关联。联合开发工作是蒙特雷湾水族馆研究所（MBARI）和微生物生态学中心：研究和教育（C-MORE），一个多机构NSF赞助的科学和技术中心之间的合作。更广泛的影响： 随着拟议的发展，有很多很好的机会，为学生和技术人员的培训和发展。这项技术有可能收集到非常有用的数据。所获得的知识将是我们了解海洋生产力和气候变化的基础;该提案将促进工程师、机械师、海洋学家、分子生物学家、基因组学家和微生物学家之间的跨学科互动;对少数群体和教育推广的关注是适当的。这两个机构都有支持教育和研究的强大背景，并有现有的机制让从中学到研究生院的学生参与，包括妇女和代表性不足的群体，包括天真的岛民。