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

该合同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。这个扩大的测量程序将允许全面的文件生态系统对环境变化的响应，在切萨皮克湾生态系统造成的全球气候变化，营养负荷，流域恢复。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的任务，并应用科学数据支持沿海地区人口的健康和福利。新的测量方法将填补我们对沿海地区生物、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地方、区域和全球变化的反应的理解方面的关键空白。该监测系统将提供数据流，将支持研究生教育，以及培训访问小学生和公众对沿海海洋生态学及其如何应对污染和气候变化。CBL研究工作的一个新兴组成部分是建立一个综合分子后生动物长期监测计划，从最近重建的研究码头。该奖项支持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，大幅增强马里兰州大学环境科学中心切萨皮克生物实验室（CBL; http：//www.umces.edu/cbl）的完善监测计划。拟议扩大的采样程序将允许CBL网站成为一个哨兵，以记录昼夜，季节和年际尺度的变化，在切萨皮克湾生态系统，一个代表性的沿海系统，全球气候变化的影响下，营养负荷，流域恢复。具体而言，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）和大气（PAR）参数，这将补充现有的温度和盐度，潮汐，营养物和有机物浓度，浮游生物和鱼类丰度，光可用性和社区呼吸的监测。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。为了确保这些多样化和广泛的数据流在一个强大而开放的环境中进行集成和管理，以便CBL和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存档和新的数据流。

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.