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RII Track-1: Ridge to Reef Processes and Interdependent Drivers of Small Island Resilience

RII Track-1：从山脊到礁石的过程和小岛屿恢复力的相互依赖的驱动因素

基本信息

批准号：
1946412
负责人：
Kim Waddell
金额：
$ 2000万
依托单位：
University of The Virgin Islands
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Cooperative Agreement
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946412&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RII Track Ridge Reef Processes

项目摘要

As the environment continues to change both through natural and human influenced means, catastrophic events such as hurricanes are projected to have much larger devastating effects on small island territories such as the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is easily seen in the increased destruction and lack of recovery of coral reefs that surround the islands that are a major tourism draw and key part of the island economy. For example, due to building of new and replacement island infrastructure that causes runoff into the ocean, and increasing ocean temperatures due to climate change, hurricane effects have been particularly devastating to coral reefs. To better understand the effects of this interlinked island and reef system, this project will use multiple scientific methods and state-of-the-art techniques to understand how coral reefs and the plants and animals that live in them recovered from the 2017 hurricanes, while also investigating how the island can put in place natural systems such as mangroves and seagrass that can act to stabilize their environment, for example, by acting as natural water filters. The project will also address the need to build an educated work force and will help local communities play an active role in the stewardship of their islands. This scientific infrastructure improvement project based in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) addresses the territory's nearshore marine ecosystems with their associated coral reefs, which are key to the economic viability and food security of the islands. However, coral reefs and associated habitats are especially vulnerable to stressors such as oceanographic-climatic perturbations, and to land- and water-based human activities, which often magnify the negative effects of natural disturbances, such as the 2017 Category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria. Within this small island territory, what will ultimately determine the future of its social-ecological systems, is the ability and capacity of its citizens to protect and to actively participate in the stewardship of these environments. Using an interdisciplinary state-of-the-art approach, this project will analyze both the impacts of interventions on flux of terrestrial pollutants on coral reef ecosystems, and the impact of biodiversity on ecological restoration in coral reef and mangrove and seagrass habitats. Additionally, this project will focus on improving the quantitative, scientific, and educational levels of the USVI workforce by improving STEM education, which will be the key to sustainability for the territory. This will be accomplished through a wide variety of high impact strategies that include formal and informal STEM education and by increasing the level of environmental stewardship that will lead to better informed decision making in the management of marine and other natural resources. A more aware and highly educated citizenry will lead to more diversified and sustainable economic development options for the territory.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

随着环境通过自然和人类影响的方式继续发生变化，预计飓风等灾难性事件将对美属维尔京群岛等小岛屿领土产生更大的破坏性影响。这很容易从岛屿周围珊瑚礁的破坏加剧和缺乏恢复中看出，这些珊瑚礁是主要的旅游景点和岛屿经济的关键部分。例如，由于建造新的和替换的岛屿基础设施导致径流进入海洋，以及由于气候变化导致海洋温度升高，飓风对珊瑚礁的影响尤其具有破坏性。为了更好地了解这种相互联系的岛屿和珊瑚礁系统的影响，该项目将使用多种科学方法和最先进的技术来了解珊瑚礁和生活在其中的动植物如何从2017年的飓风中恢复过来，同时还研究该岛如何实施红树林和海草等自然系统，这些自然系统可以稳定其环境，例如，通过充当天然水过滤器。该项目还将解决建立受过教育的劳动力的需要，并将帮助当地社区在管理其岛屿方面发挥积极作用。这个科学基础设施改善项目位于美属维尔京群岛（USVI），涉及该领土的近岸海洋生态系统及其相关的珊瑚礁，这是岛屿经济可行性和粮食安全的关键。然而，珊瑚礁和相关栖息地特别容易受到海洋气候扰动以及陆地和水上人类活动等压力因素的影响，这些活动往往会放大自然干扰的负面影响，例如2017年的第5类飓风“厄玛”和“玛丽亚”。在这个小岛屿领土内，最终决定其社会生态系统未来的是其公民保护和积极参与管理这些环境的能力和能力。本项目将采用跨学科的方法，分析干预措施对陆地污染物通量对珊瑚礁生态系统的影响，以及生物多样性对珊瑚礁、红树林和海草栖息地生态恢复的影响。此外，该项目将通过改善STEM教育，重点提高美属维尔京群岛劳动力的数量、科学和教育水平，这将是该地区可持续发展的关键。这将通过各种高影响力战略来实现，包括正式和非正式的STEM教育，并通过提高环境管理水平，从而在海洋和其他自然资源的管理中做出更明智的决策。一个更有意识和受过高等教育的公民将为该领土带来更多样化和可持续的经济发展选择。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（30）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Caribbean corals exhibit species-specific differences in competitive abilities with an aggressive encrusting alga, Ramicrusta textilis

DOI：
10.1007/s00338-021-02172-0
发表时间：
2021-08
期刊：
Coral Reefs
影响因子：
3.5
作者：
Karli J. Hollister;Rosmin S. Ennis;Heather L. Spalding;P. Gabrielson;T. Smith
通讯作者：
Karli J. Hollister;Rosmin S. Ennis;Heather L. Spalding;P. Gabrielson;T. Smith

An unavoidably short history of inland aquatic animal diversity research in the US Virgin Islands

美属维尔京群岛内陆水生动物多样性研究的历史不可避免地短暂