RUI: Acquisition of Tools for an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Research, Education, and Management

州立大学纽约学院（SUNY）是位于纽约中部皮袜地区的一所以本科为主的大学。位于纽约库珀斯敦的SUNY Oakota Biological Field Station（BFS）为高中生，本科生和研究生，教师和访问研究人员提供研究机会。由FSML赠款支持的计划改进将使传统的湖沼监测方案现代化，通过增加现代渔业采样和数据收集能力，提高研究，教育和培训机会的广度和质量，为SUNY Occupta和其他机构的学生和研究人员提供。所要求的设备将大大提高在BFS几个正在进行的项目，提供所需的能力，以振兴一个历史悠久的渔业计划，已在很大程度上缺席了近30年的BFS，并增加BFS的自力更生提供区域支持不可或缺的机会提供给本科生和研究生，和访问研究人员。将受益于这些改进的项目和计划包括：全国第一个科学硕士（MS）和专业科学硕士（PSM）湖泊管理计划;在纽约州奥塞戈湖的食物网动态特征，入侵食蟹动物崩溃后;恢复奥塞戈湖的白鲑;继续温水渔业监测和更新历史清单;实验池塘营养管理对生态系统一级的影响;继续长期监测奥塞戈湖和上萨斯奎汉纳河流域的水质和湖沼学参数;与纽约州立大学其他机构协调长期、高分辨率湖沼学和气候监测，并为全球湖泊生态观测网作出贡献;以及研究当地和区域鱼类寄生虫。BFS已经证明致力于长期监测BFS土地和整个纽约州的水生生态系统。监测工作的应用范围很广，从为渔业、湖泊和周围流域的管理提供信息，到促进生物和生态知识的基础研究。某些系统已经积累了40多年的连续监测数据，其中一些已被用于影响力大的全球气候研究项目。BFS与地方，州和联邦合作伙伴进行合作研究项目，并将当前的生态理论融入自然资源管理实践。它通过监测水质、控制人为富营养化的来源和症状、管理水生入侵物种和评估新出现的污染物来为当地社区服务。这些全面的监测工作为研究各级自然资源管理问题提供了各种机会，从单个生态系统组成部分到生态系统和区域各级。

The State University of New York College at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta) is a primarily undergraduate institution located in New York's Central Leatherstocking region. The SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station (BFS), located in Cooperstown, NY, supports research opportunities for high-school students, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers. The planned improvements supported by the FSML grant will modernize the conventional limnological monitoring schema, improving the breadth and quality of the research, education, and training opportunities available to students and researchers at SUNY Oneonta and from other institutions through the addition of modern fisheries sampling and data collection capacities. The requested equipment will greatly enhance several ongoing projects at the BFS, provide capacity needed to revitalize an historical fisheries program that has been largely absent from the BFS for nearly 30 years, and increase the self-reliance of the BFS in providing regional support integral to opportunities offered to undergraduate and graduate students, and visiting researchers. Projects and programs that will benefit from these improvements include: the nation's first Master of Science (MS) and Professional Science Master (PSM) programs in Lake Management; characterization of food web dynamics in Otsego Lake, NY, following collapse of an invasive planktivore; restoration of lake whitefish in Otsego Lake; continued warm-water fisheries monitoring and updating an historical inventory; ecosystem-level effects of the trophic management in experimental ponds; continued long-term monitoring of water quality and limnological parameters in Otsego Lake and the Upper Susquehanna River watershed; coordinated long-term, high-resolution limnological and climate monitoring with other SUNY institutions and contribution to the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON); and research on local and regional fish parasites. The BFS has a demonstrated dedication to long-term monitoring of aquatic ecosystems on BFS lands and throughout New York State. Monitoring efforts have ranged in application from informing the management of fisheries, lakes, and surrounding watersheds to basic research for the advancement of biological and ecological knowledge. Certain systems have accumulated more than 40 years of continuous monitoring data, some of which have been utilized in high-impact global climate research projects. The BFS conducts collaborative research projects with local, state and federal partners, and integrates current ecological theories into natural resource management practices. It serves the local community by monitoring water quality, controlling sources and symptoms of anthropogenic eutrophication, managing aquatic invasive species, and assessing emerging pollutants. These comprehensive monitoring efforts provide diverse opportunities to study natural resource management questions at various levels, from individual ecosystem components to the ecosystem and regional levels.