Motion Analysis System and a Video Equipped Compound Microscope for the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

向伍兹霍尔海洋研究所（WHOI）生物系提供经费，用于购置设备，建立一个高分辨率录象分析生物系统的设施。该设备包括一个倒置光学显微镜和一个用于制作视频图像的附件，以及一个计算机化的运动分析系统，用于量化各种海洋生物的细胞运动、纤毛摄食机制和捕食者-猎物相互作用。最近的研究强调了这样一个事实，即海洋生态系统中的能量流动在很大程度上受到浮游生物细胞间相互作用的影响，关于浮游生物在海洋食物链中的作用的几个“经典概念”正在被重新评估，研究浮游生物的方法也在重新评估。处理保存标本的传统方法不再被认为足以评估种群内生物体的复杂相互作用。获得拟议的视频设备将有助于WHOI调查人员研究和更好地了解影响海洋食物链中营养相互作用的生理、行为和生态原理。

Funding is provided to the Dept. of Biology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the acquisition of equipment to establish a facility for high resolution video analysis of biological systems. The equipment consists of an inverted light microscope with attachments for making video images, and a computerized motion analysis system for quantifying cell movement, ciliary feeding mechanisms, and predator-prey interactions in a variety of marine organisms. Recent studies have underscored the fact that the flow of energy in marine ecosystems is greatly influenced by cell-to-cell interactions of plankton, and that several "classical concepts" regarding the role of plankton in the marine food chain are being reevaluated as are methods of studying plankton. Traditional methods of working with preserved specimens are no longer considered adequate to assess the complex interactions of organisms within a population. Aquisition of the proposed video equipment will assist WHOI investigators study and better understand the physiological, behavioral, and ecological principles that affect trophic interaction in the marine food chain.