Controlled Environment Facilities for the Marine Biological Laboratory

海洋生物实验室受控环境设施

• 批准号: 2128820
• 负责人: Anne Giblin
• 金额: $ 43.7万
• 依托单位: Marine Biological Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2128820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Controlled; Environment; Facilities; Marine; Biological

This project will provide funds for new controlled environment facilities at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL - https://www.mbl.edu). This will provide new capabilities to expand research on plant and soil processes, and microbial interactions with plants and animals. Global change is a multi-factor phenomenon making the study of how organisms and ecosystems will respond to future changes all the more challenging. Facilities which can simultaneously control multiple relevant environmental drivers are needed to address relevant global change questions. These facilities will be used to support research and education on a broad array of topics, which include the effects of climate change and human land use on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, controls on greenhouse gas release from soils and sediments, studies on the evolution of photosynthesis, studies on the microbiome of plants and animals, and investigations into the metabolic capabilities of microbial communities and microbes living in extreme environments. The facility will be used by faculty, visiting scientists and students. The project will install two new Conviron growth chambers equipped with state of the art temperature, CO2, humidity, and lighting systems to replace older systems. The two new chambers will also be equipped with a new control system allowing for remote monitoring of the chambers and experiments. The room housing the new growth chambers will be greatly improved by moving three compressors outside, reducing the noise in the room. For studies of environmental controls over microbial activities the project will also include the installation of a Coy anaerobic chamber enabling preparation of anaerobic microbial cultures and experiments requiring strict anaerobic conditions. This chamber will enable new capacity for diverse work with anaerobic microbes year-round at the MBL. The room housing the new growth chambers will be greatly improved by moving three compressors (those for the two new chambers, and one for an existing chamber) outside, greatly reducing the noise in the room. MBL’s growth chambers have been heavily used for education at all levels, from high school to Ph.D. level work and students will continue to have access to the new facilities.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.

该项目将为海洋生物实验室(MBL-https://www.mbl.edu).)新的受控环境设施提供资金这将为扩大对植物和土壤过程以及微生物与植物和动物相互作用的研究提供新的能力。全球变化是一个多因素的现象，这使得研究生物体和生态系统将如何应对未来的变化变得更加具有挑战性。需要能够同时控制多个相关环境驱动因素的设施来解决相关的全球变化问题。这些设施将用于支持一系列主题的研究和教育，其中包括气候变化和人类土地利用对陆地和水生生态系统的影响、土壤和沉积物温室气体排放的控制、光合作用的演变研究、动植物微生物群研究，以及对微生物群落和生活在极端环境中的微生物代谢能力的调查。该设施将供教职员工、访问科学家和学生使用。该项目将安装两个新的康维龙生长室，配备最先进的温度、二氧化碳、湿度和照明系统，以取代旧系统。这两个新的试验室还将配备一个新的控制系统，允许对试验室和实验进行远程监测。通过将三台压缩机移到室外，容纳新增生室的房间将得到极大改善，从而减少房间内的噪音。对于微生物活动的环境控制研究，该项目还将包括安装Coy厌氧室，以便能够准备厌氧微生物培养物，并进行要求严格的厌氧条件的实验。这个小室将为MBL全年不同的厌氧微生物工作提供新的能力。通过将三台压缩机(用于两个新室的压缩机和一个用于现有室的压缩机)移到室外，将大大改善容纳新增生室的房间，大大降低房间内的噪音。MBL的成长室被大量用于从高中到博士水平的所有级别的教育，学生将继续使用新的设施。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。