Equipment Improvements in Support of Research at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station

罗格斯大学海洋考察站位于新泽西州塔克顿附近，位于穆里卡河的入海口——大海湾河口。这个河口的整个流域都在新泽西国家松林保护区内受到保护。该监测站可以方便地进入东北海岸最干净的河口的广阔的盐沼和河口栖息地，以及大陆架上15米深的一个地点，在那里正在进行水动力过程、沉积物再悬浮和运输、幼虫和幼鱼的定居和商业鱼类和无脊椎动物的吸收，以及影响底栖生物群落的底边界层过程。长期生态系统观测站已在此建立，以追踪重要环境参数的周期性和长期变化。这一项目将1)加强在受控温度下从远海和大陆架运输和维持无脊椎动物和鱼类的能力，2)改进在该地点收集关于对那里的一些研究至关重要的环境因素的数据，例如，为现有气象站、盐度计和萤光计增加组件。＊＊＊

9311080 Able, K. The Rutgers University Marine Field Station is located near Tuckerton, New Jersey, at the mouth of the Mullica River - Great Bay Estuary. The entire watershed of this estuary is protected within the New Jersey National Pinelands Reserve. The station provides easy access to extensive salt marsh and estuarine habitats in the cleanest estuary on the northeast coast, and to a site at 15 m depth on the continental shelf where studies on hydrodynamic processes, sediment resuspension and transport, larval and juvenile settlement and recruitment of commercial species of fish and invertebrates, and bottom boundary layer prosses affecting benthic communities are being conducted. A Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory has been established at this site to track episodic and long-term changes in important environmental parameters. This project will 1) enhance the ability to transport and maintain invertebrates and fishes from the estray and continental shelf under controlled temperatures, and 2) improve data collection at the site on environmental factors fundamental to a number of the studies there, e.g., additional components for an existing meteorological station, a salinometer and a fluorometer. ***