Maine EPSCoR: The Nexus of Coastal Social-Environmental Systems and Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture

提案编号：iia -1355457提案标题：缅因州EPSCoR：沿海社会环境系统和可持续生态水产养殖的关系通过可持续生态水产养殖网络（SEANET）进行的研究将有助于进行重要的科学辩论，讨论如何通过努力发展位于海洋渔业，生态系统保护和恢复知识界面的综合，跨学科的沿海海洋科学来平衡所获得的社会生态知识与当地决策。该项目具有创新性和潜在的变革性，展示了在缅因州推进可持续生态水产养殖（SEA）的知识和发现的巨大可能性。美国沿海的社会、经济和环境联系。其他沿海地区面临着与缅因州类似的问题，其结果可以为全球沿海社区和水产养殖问题的可持续解决方案提供信息。缅因州开展研究和教育活动，以吸引广泛的选民。该项目将提高公众科学素养，培养现代STEM劳动力。新的STEM项目、指导和研究机会将专门招收女性、美洲原住民和其他少数族裔学生。其他举措包括学生实习、创新研讨会，以及建立一个全州范围内的教师、博士后、研究生和本科生与利益相关者合作的合作网络。中学教师亦会获支持参与课程发展。经济发展活动包括创建地理信息系统地图，以确定高价值商业收获物种的风险和承载能力。这些活动加强了在国家内部被认为是重要的领域。如海洋生态和水产养殖领域的劳动力培训和发展。技术描述本项目旨在开发SEANET，以确定缅因州水产养殖系统的社会和环境承载能力。美国沿海生物区。SEANET被设想为一个全州范围的、多机构的学术研究网络，将促进缅因州沿海地区关于SEA的知识和发现。美国的社会、经济和环境联系。SEANET利用缅因州？通过比较和对比南部、中部海岸和东部三个沿海生物区域，研究了不同的特定生态系统背景，包括海洋与淡水投入量、物理海洋学、城市化程度和营养投入量、社会经济人口统计学以及渔业和水产养殖发展强度的重要研究梯度。一套新的浮标和传感器、工业伙伴关系和模型将与现有数据一起用于评估和监测这些地区对水产养殖物种的长期承载能力。社会研究将利用焦点小组、调查和访谈，结合建模，让当地利益相关者参与进来，解决与水产养殖有关的看法、态度和当地价值观。该项目涉及全州许多高等教育机构，包括社区学院、当地生产者团体和州政府机构。

AbstractProposal Number: IIA-1355457Proposal Title: Maine EPSCoR: The Nexus of Coastal Social-Environmental Systems and Sustainable Ecological AquacultureInstitution: University of MaineNon-Technical DescriptionResearch through the Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) will contribute to important scientific debates on how to balance the social ecological knowledge gained with local decision-making through its efforts to develop comprehensive, transdisciplinary, coastal marine science that is positioned at the knowledge interface of marine fisheries, ecosystems conservation and restoration. The project is innovative and potentially transformative displaying considerable possibilities for advancing knowledge and discovery about Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture (SEA) within Maine?s coastal social, economic, and environmental nexus. Other coastal regions face problems similar to those in Maine and results could inform sustainable solutions to coastal community and aquaculture problems on a global basis.Maine develops research and education activities to engage a wide number of constituents. The project will increase public scientific literacy and train a modern STEM workforce. New STEM programs, mentoring, and research opportunities will specifically recruit females, Native Americans, and other minority students. Other initiatives include student internships, innovation workshops and the creation of a statewide collaborative network of faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students working together with stakeholders. Middle and secondary teachers will also be supported to engage in curriculum development. Economic development activities include the creation of Geographical Information Systems maps that identify the risks and carrying capacity for high valued commercial harvest species. The activities strengthen areas noted to be important within the State?s Science and Technology Plan such as workforce training and development in the areas of marine ecology and aquaculture.Technical DescriptionThis project seeks develops SEANET to determine the social and environmental carrying capacities of aquaculture systems in Maine?s coastal bioregions. SEANET is envisioned as a statewide, multi-institutional, academic research network that will advance knowledge and discovery about SEA within coastal Maine?s social, economic, and environmental nexus. SEANET capitalizes on Maine?s diverse Spcio- ecological systems contexts by comparing and contrasting three coastal bioregions, south, midcoast, and downeast, which comprise important research gradients in amounts of oceanic versus freshwater inputs, physical oceanography, degrees of urbanization and nutrient inputs, social-economic demographics, and intensities of fisheries and aquaculture developments. A suite of new buoys and sensors, industrial partnerships and models will be used with existing data to assess and monitor the carrying capacity of these areas for aquaculture species over time. Social research will engage local stakeholders using focus groups, surveys, and interviews and combined with modeling will address perceptions, attitudes and local values related to aquaculture. The project involves many of the institutes of higher education across the state including community colleges as well as local producer groups and state government agencies.