POWRE: New Collaborative Research with the Sustainable Seas Expeditions at Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (Am. Samoa)

该奖项提供了从POWRE计划的资金，使赖特博士扩大她的研究兴趣到沿海研究，在那里她在地理信息系统的专业知识可以应用到更大范围的科学项目比在深海。为了完成研究重点的这一转变，赖特博士要求资助她的GIS专业知识，目前正在进行的可持续海洋探险（SSE）和国家海洋精算师系统的珊瑚礁生态系统研究。PI将为位于美属萨摩亚的Fagatele湾国家海洋保护区开发一个数据库系统。她选择了FBNMS，因为这个网站的研究才刚刚开始，因此，她的GIS专业知识可以是数据收集计划的一个组成部分。PI建议：1）建立一个全面的、可通过网络访问的数据交换中心，其中包括地理信息系统地图和数据层，可供FBNMS合作者使用，2）制定珊瑚礁生态特征的空间分析程序，这将有助于制定未来的调查、监测和管理协议，以及3）发展信息空间建模的简要探索，作为增加数据交换所的内容和可访问性的一种方式。

This award provides funding from the POWRE program to allow Dr. Wright to expand her research interests into coastal studies, where her expertise in GIS systems can be applied to a greater range of scientific projects than in the deep sea. In order to accomplish this shift in research focus, Dr. Wright requests funding to apply her GIS expertise to coral reef ecosystem studies currently being conducted by the Sustainable Seas Expeditions (SSE) and the National Marine Sactuaries System. The PI will develop a database system for the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (FBNMS) which is located in America Samoa. She picked the FBNMS because studies of this site are just beginning and, therefore, her GIS expertise could be an integral part of plans for data collection. The PI proposes to 1) establish a comprehensive, web-accessible data clearinghouse, with GIS maps, and data layers that can be made available to the FBNMS collaborators, 2) develop a spatial analytical procedures for ecological characterization of the coral reef, which will help to establish future survey, monitoring and management protocols, and 3) develop a brief exploration of information space modeling as a way to augment the content and accessibility of the data clearinghouse.