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

该合同通过增加新的传感器功能，支持在切萨皮克湾地区扩展长期的生物、物理和化学监测项目。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对全球气候变化、营养负荷和流域恢复造成的环境变化的生态系统响应。该项目支持美国国家科学基金会的使命，即扩大对生态系统长期变化的科学理解，并应用科学数据来支持沿海地区人口的健康和福利。新的测量将填补我们对沿海地区生物、化学和物理过程之间联系的理解的关键空白，以及这些联系如何控制海洋系统对地方、区域和全球变化的响应。监测系统将提供数据流，以支持研究生教育以及对来访的小学学生和一般公众进行关于沿海海洋生态及其如何对污染和气候变化作出反应的培训。CBL研究工作的一个新兴组成部分是建立一个综合分子到后生动物的长期监测计划，从其最近重建的研究码头。该合同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）完善的监测项目，增加新的环境传感器，部署最先进的数据集成和管理系统。扩大采样计划的提议将使CBL站点成为记录切萨皮克湾生态系统（一个代表性的沿海系统）在全球气候变化、营养负荷和流域恢复影响下的日、季节和年际尺度变化的哨兵。具体来说，该合同将增加新的传感器来测量化学（pH值、fDOM）、物理（流速和波浪）和大气（PAR）参数，以补充现有的温度和盐度、潮汐、营养物质和有机物质浓度、浮游生物和鱼类丰度、光可用性和群落呼吸的监测。这些新的传感器将完成我们在CBL码头设想的全面监测计划。为了确保这些不同的和广泛的数据流在一个强大的和开放的环境中被集成和管理，这样CBL和社会上的研究人员都可以从资源中获得最大的利益，该合同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。

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.