Huron to Erie Alliance for Research and Training (HEART) Field Station Improvements for Urban Watershed Research and Education

休伦至伊利研究与培训联盟 (HEART) 城市流域研究和教育现场站改进

• 批准号: 1624761
• 负责人: Carol Miller
• 金额: $ 25.2万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 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: 2016-08-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Huron; Erie; Alliance; Research; Training

The Huron to Erie Alliance for Research and Training (HEART) Field Stations are unique in their access to both natural and built water resources in the urban environment, including natural ecosystems and water infrastructure that supports over 4 million people in Southeast Michigan. Located at Belle Isle, Lake St. Clair Metropark, and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Water Works Park (WWP) drinking water treatment plant, the HEART field stations provide access to state-of-the-art research laboratory facilities and unique native and restored Great Lakes coastal ecosystems and green/blue infrastructure, as well as major shipping networks, world-class tourism and fisheries resources and an international border crossing. The frontiers of knowledge on the sustainability of water infrastructure and the maintenance of water quality for human and ecological welfare will be advanced through new studies using the proposed equipment and facility improvements. These studies will directly impact metropolitan Detroit and the Great Lakes region and will also serve the national purpose by providing innovative education and training on a broad variety of urban water resources topics at all levels of study (K-12, community college, undergraduate, graduate and post-doc). The research and education approaches used by HEART are designed to secure a technologically-advanced future workforce knowledgeable and experienced in urban watershed issues and study methods, and instilled with values about the stewardship of urban freshwater resources. The proposed equipment will enhance HEART's ability to positively impact the economic competitiveness of the shipping and fisheries industries, as well as the sustainability and affordability of drinking water systems. Established partnerships with urban public schools and community institutions will enable improvements in the research, education and training at the HEART field stations to provide greater access to advanced Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) resources and skills for underrepresented minorities. The field stations are places where researchers from diverse institutions and academic disciplines interact, and each facility provides a venue for tours and conferences that connect collaborators nationally and internationally around urban water science.The addition of the proposed equipment at HEART will advance knowledge of fisheries and restoration science through environmental DNA detection using PCR-based techniques, developing new methods for assessing the effectiveness of habitat restoration and the risk of invasive species transport via ship ballast water. Equipment to support advancement of automated methods for rapid molecular aquatic ecology analysis will bring this promising new field closer to marketability and broad application for the public good. Experimental manipulation of the 5,000 square foot replica drinking water treatment system at WWP and evaluation of physiological organism responses will provide new insights on treatment process effectiveness for contaminants of emerging concern. The equipment will support hands-on student water science, aquatic molecular and microbial analysis, identification of invasive species, fisheries experiments, drinking water treatment technology investigations and water quality studies in the critical Great Lakes waterway from Lake Huron to Lake Erie. Communications technology will expand the capacity of the HEART Field Stations to collect and integrate data and enable scientists to engage and empower the public in creating a sustainable urban environment based on sound science. For more information visit the HEART website at http://www.heartfreshwatercenter.org/.

伊利联盟（Erie Alliance）进行研究与训练（心脏）野战站的休伦（Huron）在城市环境中获得自然和建筑水资源的独特之处，包括自然生态系统和水基础设施，这些基础设施为密歇根州东南部提供了支持超过400万人。 Located at Belle Isle, Lake St. Clair Metropark, and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Water Works Park (WWP) drinking water treatment plant, the HEART field stations provide access to state-of-the-art research laboratory facilities and unique native and restored Great Lakes coastal ecosystems and green/blue infrastructure, as well as major shipping networks, world-class tourism and fisheries resources and an international border crossing.关于水基础设施可持续性以及维持人类和生态福利水质的知识的前沿，将通过使用拟议的设备和设施改进的新研究来提出。这些研究将直接影响底特律大都市和大湖地区，还将通过在各个级别的研究（K-12，社区学院，本科，毕业生和毕业后）提供有关各种城市水资源主题的创新教育和培训。心脏使用的研究和教育方法旨在确保在城市分水岭问题和研究方法中获得技术先进的未来劳动力知识和经验，并灌输了关于城市淡水资源管理的价值观。拟议的设备将增强心脏积极影响运输和渔业行业的经济竞争力，以及饮用水系统的可持续性和负担能力的能力。与城市公立学校和社区机构建立的合作伙伴关系将在心脏野战站的研究，教育和培训方面进行改进，以便为代表性不足的少数群体提供更大的访问权限，以提供更大的访问先进的科学技术工程技术（STEM）资源和技能。 The field stations are places where researchers from diverse institutions and academic disciplines interact, and each facility provides a venue for tours and conferences that connect collaborators nationally and internationally around urban water science.The addition of the proposed equipment at HEART will advance knowledge of fisheries and restoration science through environmental DNA detection using PCR-based techniques, developing new methods for assessing the effectiveness of habitat restoration and the risk of invasive species transport via ship ballast 水。支持自动化方法快速分子水生态分析的设备，将使这个有希望的新领域更接近销售能力，并为公共利益提供广泛的应用。对WWP的5,000平方英尺饮用水处理系统的实验操作以及生理生物反应的评估将为新兴关注的污染物提供有关治疗过程有效性的新见解。该设备将支持动手的学生水科学，水上分子和微生物分析，对入侵物种的识别，渔业实验，饮用水处理技术调查和水质研究，从休伦湖到伊利湖。通信技术将扩大心脏野外电场收集和集成数据的能力，并使科学家能够参与和赋予公众的能力，以创建基于声音科学的可持续城市环境。有关更多信息，请访问心脏网站http://www.heartfreshwatercenter.org/。