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和海洋全流域浮游生物原位调查。该奖项延续了从冰岛到美国东部边缘的西大西洋CPR调查。它使用一种从机会船部署的一致、具有成本效益的方法，继续对表层海洋浮游植物和浮游动物进行独特和宝贵的时间序列观测。该项目的主要目标是保持CPR时间序列的空间和时间完整性，并促进海洋生态研究。由于浮游生物构成海洋食物网的基础，因此长期和流域规模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因素，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。通过生物和化学海洋学数据管理办公室，向公众提供海洋复原力调查的数据。此外，维持样本档案将使更广泛的科学界最大限度地利用该档案，该项目观察和描述西北大西洋长期的中上层浮游生物变异性和多样性。这些数据使科学家能够解释海洋生物变化，并评估数十年时间尺度上的人为，气候强迫和自然浮游生物变化。预计科学研究将推进一些关键的科学调查，其中将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泛的大西洋之间相互联系。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。这些主题与及时和紧迫的科学问题、美国的海洋政策和管理利益以及社会对海洋环境的广泛关注高度相关。该奖项反映了NSF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.