Core--Environmental Facility

描述(由申请人提供)：环境基金核心将提供详细的 物理/化学/生物数据，为有毒藻类研究项目、贝类动力学研究项目和人类暴露研究项目中进行的研究提供信息。将与生物传感器设施核心分享将生物传感器安装到就地系泊处的专业知识，以支持他们开发浮标安装软骨藻酸传感器的目标。所有环境数据将通过信息学设施核心传递给中心参与者。 环境设施核心有以下具体目标：1)使用系泊传感器，在我们感兴趣的两个区域--普吉特海湾和华盛顿海岸--提供物理、化学和生物参数的连续记录。2)向有毒藻类研究项目和贝类动力学研究项目提供来自普吉特湾和沿海地区的浮游植物和贝类样本。3)利用过去环境条件的历史数据，在假菱形藻丰度和有毒暴发的背景下，开发水华动态的预测模型。为了实现这些目标，中心的资金将帮助支持系泊设备的维护和数据分析。调查人员还将启动密集抽样计划，以补充已经建立的计划(通过生态部和西北地区食品安全委员会)。

Description (provided by applicant): The Environment Facility Core will provide detailed physical/chemical/biological data to inform research conducted in the Toxic Algae Research Project, the Shellfish Kinetics Research Project and the Human Exposure Research Project. Expertise in mounting biological sensors to in situ moorings will be shared with the Biosensors Facility Core to support their goal of developing a buoy-mounted domoic acid sensor. All environmental data will be relayed to Center participants through the Informatics Facility Core. The Environment Facility Core has the following specific aims: 1) To use moored sensors to provide a continuous record of physical, chemical, and biological parameters in our two areas of interest, Puget Sound and coastal Washington. 2) To provide the Toxic Algae Research Project and the Shellfish Kinetics Research Project with phytoplankton and shellfish samples from sites in Puget Sound and along the coast. 3) To use historical data on past environmental conditions in the context of Pseudo-nitzschia abundance and toxic outbreaks to develop predictive models of bloom dynamics. To accomplish these aims, Center funds will help support maintenance of the moorings and data analysis. The investigators will also initiate intensive sampling programs to supplement already established programs (through the Department of Ecology and NWFSC).