The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey of the Plankton of the North Atlantic

连续浮游生物记录仪（CPR）调查（1931年至今）是世界上唯一的长期、全海盆浮游生物现场调查。这个奖项延续了CPR在西大西洋从冰岛到美国东部边缘的调查。它使用从机遇船部署的一致的、具有成本效益的方法，继续在海洋表面进行独特和宝贵的浮游植物和浮游动物观测时间序列。该项目的主要目标是保持CPR时间序列的时空完整性，促进海洋生态研究。由于浮游生物构成了海洋食物网的基础，长期和盆地尺度的观测使我们能够了解海洋生态系统如何应对气候变化、酸化、富营养化和捕捞压力造成的生物多样性丧失等压力源，最终实现基于生态系统的海洋资源管理。更广泛的影响包括对美国和国际综合观测系统、海洋政策和海洋资源管理的贡献。CPR调查的数据通过生物和化学海洋学数据管理办公室向公众开放。此外，维持样本档案将使更广泛的科学界最大限度地利用它。该项目观察和描述了西北大西洋中上层浮游生物的长期变化和多样性。这些数据使科学家能够解释海洋生物变化，并在几十年的时间尺度上评估人为的、气候强迫的和自然的浮游生物变化。预计科学研究将推进一些关键的科学探究，包括海洋浮游生物群落对大规模环境变化的反应，变化如何影响生态系统生产力，以及这些变化如何在更广阔的大西洋上相互联系。此外，CPR的研究重点是生物多样性和入侵物种；海洋生物资源的可持续利用；生态系统健康、海洋酸化和微塑料。这些主题与及时和引人注目的科学问题、美国的海洋政策和管理利益以及有关海洋环境的广泛社会关注高度相关。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。

The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey (1931 to present) is the only long-term and ocean-basin-wide in-situ survey of plankton in the world. This award continues the CPR survey in the western Atlantic from Iceland to the eastern margin of the United States. It uses a consistent, cost-effective methodology deployed from ships-of-opportunity to continue a unique and invaluable time series of phytoplankton and zooplankton observations in the surface ocean. The primary objective of this project is to maintain the spatial and temporal integrity of the CPR time series and facilitate marine ecological research. Because plankton form the base of the marine food web, long-term and basin-scale observations allow us to understand how marine ecosystems respond to stressors such as climate change, acidification, eutrophication, and loss of biodiversity from fishing pressure, ultimately enabling ecosystem-based management of marine resources. Broader impacts include contributions to U.S. and international and integrated observing systems, marine policy, and marine resource management. Data from the CPR survey are made publicly accessible through the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office. In addition, maintenance of a sample archive will maximize its use by the wider scientific community.This project observes and describes long-term, pelagic plankton variability and diversity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. The data are enabling scientists to interpret marine biological change and assess anthropogenic, climatically forced, and natural plankton variability over multi-decadal time scales. Scientific research is anticipated to advance a number of key lines of scientific inquiry that will incorporate responses of the marine plankton community to large-scale environmental change, how changes can impact ecosystem productivity, and how connected these changes are across the wider Atlantic. In addition, CPR research focuses on biodiversity and invasive species; sustainable use of marine bio-resources; and ecosystem health, ocean acidification, and micro-plastics. These themes are highly relevant to timely and compelling scientific questions, marine policy and management interests of the United States, and broad societal concerns regarding the marine environment.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.