Investigating Automated Biomonitoring as a Management Tool Toward the Elimination of Pollutants that Adversely Affect Aquatic Environmental Quality

研究自动化生物监测作为一种消除对水生环境质量有不利影响的污染物的管理工具。该奖项将支持第一阶段的研究，以确定在自动化和连续监测系统中使用鱼类通气反应曲线来检测废水收集和处理系统流出物的毒性的可行性。这包括对这些特征的评估，以确定或预测毒性的原因，并将鱼类的反应，如咳嗽行为、活动模式和取向行为与污染物暴露联系起来。该奖项的提案是根据NSF 91-20小企业创新研究（SBIR）提交的。预期这项研究的结果将确定拟议概念在技术上的可行性，并为可能在其后的第二阶段继续进行研究奠定基础。

Investigating Automated Biomonitoring as a Management Tool Toward the Elimination of Pollutants that Adversely Affect Aquatic Environmental Quality. This award is to support Phase I research to determine the feasibility of using fish ventilatory response profiles in an automated and continuously monitored system to detect toxicity of effluents from wastewater collection and treatment systems. The involves assessment of those profiles to determine or predict the cause of toxicity and to relate fish responses such as cough behavior, activity patters and orientation behavior to the pollutant- exposures. The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to NSF 91-20, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR). Results of this research are expected to determine the technical feasibility of the proposed concept and the basis for potential continuation of the research into a subsequent Phase II.