Enhancing the capabilities and integration of a long-term marine biological monitoring program

增强长期海洋生物监测计划的能力和整合

• 批准号: 1624675
• 负责人: Jeremy Testa
• 金额: $ 13.28万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; capabilities; integration; long; term

This award supports the expansion a long-term biological, physical, and chemical monitoring program in the Chesapeake Bay region by the addition of new sensor capabilities. This expanded measurement program will allow for comprehensive documentation of ecosystem responses to environmental change in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem resulting from global climatic change, nutrient loading, and watershed restoration. The project supports the NSF missions of expanded scientific understanding of long-term change in ecosystems and the application of scientific data to support the health and welfare of populations in the coastal zone. New measurements will fill in key gaps in our understanding of linkages among biological, chemical, and physical processes in the coastal zone and how these linkages control the response of marine systems to local, regional, and global change. The monitoring system will provide data streams that will support graduate education as well as training of visiting grade school students and the general public about coastal marine ecology and how it responds to pollution and climatic changes.An emerging component of the CBL research effort is the establishment of an integrated molecules to metazoans long-term monitoring program from its recently reconstructed research pier. This award supports the substantial enhancement of a well-established monitoring program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL; http://www.umces.edu/cbl) by the addition of new environmental sensors and the deployment of a state-of-the-art data integration and management system. The proposed expansion of the sampling program will allow the CBL site to become a sentinel to document diurnal, seasonal, and inter-annual-scale change in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, a representative coastal system, under the influence of global climatic change, nutrient loading, and watershed restoration. Specifically, this award will result in the addition of new sensors to measure chemical (pH, fDOM), physical (current velocity and waves), and atmospheric (PAR) parameters that will complement existing monitoring of temperature and salinity, tides, nutrient and organic matter concentrations, plankton and fish abundance, light availability, and community respiration. These new sensors will complete the comprehensive monitoring program we envision on the CBL pier. To ensure that these varied and extensive data streams are integrated and managed in a robust and open environment such that researchers, both at CBL and in society generally, can gain maximum benefit from the resources, this award will also support the deployment of a new data integration and management system (DIMS) that will house and disseminate the archival and new data streams.

该奖项支持通过增加新的传感器能力来扩大切萨皮克湾地区的长期生物、物理和化学监测计划。这一扩展的测量计划将允许全面记录切萨皮克湾生态系统因全球气候变化、养分负载和流域恢复而导致的环境变化的生态系统反应。该项目支持国家科学基金会扩大对生态系统长期变化的科学了解，并应用科学数据支持沿海地区人口的健康和福利。新的测量将填补我们在理解沿海地区生物、化学和物理过程之间的联系以及这些联系如何控制海洋系统对当地、区域和全球变化的反应方面的关键空白。监测系统将提供数据流，支持研究生教育以及访问小学生和普通公众关于沿海海洋生态以及如何应对污染和气候变化的培训。CBL研究工作的一个新兴组成部分是从最近重建的研究码头建立一个从分子到后生动物的综合长期监测计划。该奖项支持马里兰大学环境科学中心切萨皮克生物实验室(CBL；http://www.umces.edu/cbl))通过增加新的环境传感器和部署最先进的数据集成和管理系统，大幅加强完善的监测项目。拟议的采样计划的扩大将使CBL站点成为一个哨兵，记录切萨皮克湾生态系统在全球气候变化、营养物质负载和流域恢复的影响下的日变化、季节性变化和年际变化。切萨皮克湾生态系统是一个具有代表性的沿海系统。具体地说，这项奖励将带来新的传感器，以测量化学(pH、fDOM)、物理(流速和波浪)和大气(PAR)参数，这些参数将补充现有的温度和盐度、潮汐、营养物质和有机物浓度、浮游生物和鱼类丰度、光可获得性和群落呼吸的监测。这些新的传感器将完成我们在CBL码头上设想的全面监测计划。为了确保在稳健和开放的环境中整合和管理这些多样和广泛的数据流，使CBL和整个社会的研究人员能够从资源中获得最大利益，该奖项还将支持部署一个新的数据集成和管理系统(DIMS)，该系统将容纳和传播档案和新的数据流。