U.S.-Chile Program: A Study of the Marine Ecosystem of the Chilean Inland Sea

9625934阿特金森该美洲项目奖将支持拉里·阿特金森博士、阿诺尔多·瓦莱-莱文森博士、约翰·克林克博士、艾琳·霍夫曼博士和老多米尼恩大学海岸物理海洋学中心的研究生开展一项研究，以启动对智利内海(CIS)沿海海洋生态系统的系统研究。智利大学的维克多·马林博士和维维安·蒙特西诺博士以及来自智利其他大学的海洋学家将与该小组合作。这项协作研究将通过在因特网上广泛使用计算机信息服务器和协作软件来完成。将利用遥感数据确定独联体区域的海洋过程。将对数据进行分析，并向所有用户提供。独联体生态系统包括沿海海洋、内海、峡湾和海湾。尽管它具有重要的生态意义和很高的生物生产力，但人们对它的关注有限，在该地区进行的研究也很少。据报道，赤潮暴发已导致该地区鲑鱼养殖业大量死亡。这里提出的这项研究将是增加我们对引发赤潮事件的机制的理解的步骤之一。美国研究人员将在沿海和河口地区贡献他们在物理过程和生态系统建模方面的专业知识，来自智利的科学家将在生产力和生态问题上贡献他们的专业知识。***

9625934 Atkinson This Americas Program award will support Drs. Larry Atkinson, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, John Klinck, Eileen Hofman, and a graduate student of the Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, on a study to initiate systematic studies of the coastal ocean ecosystem of the Chilean Inland Sea (CIS). Collaborating with the group will be Drs. Victor Marin and Vivian Montecino, Universidad de Chile, and oceanographers from other Chilean universities. This collaborative research will be accomplished through extensive use of computer information servers and collaborative software over the INTERNET network. Oceanographic processes in the CIS region will be identified using remote sensing data. The data will be analyzed and made available to all users. The CIS ecosystem includes the coastal ocean, interior sea, fjords and inlets. Despite its ecological importance and its high biological productivity, it has received limited attention, and few studies have been conducted in the region. Red tide outbreaks have been reported which have caused massive mortalities in the salmon farming in the area. The study proposed here will constitute one of the steps toward increasing our understanding of the mechanisms that trigger red tide events. The U.S. researchers will contribute their expertise in physical processes and ecosystem modeling in coastal and estuarine regions and scientists from Chile will bring theirs in productivity and ecological issues. ***