Aquisition of Equipment for Research at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies

普雷斯科特学院的爱德华·博耶博士获得了一笔赠款，用于购买支持基诺湾文化和生态研究中心（位于加州湾的普雷斯科特学院野外站）海洋生态、海洋保护和管理以及社区外展等领域研究所需的设备和仪器。 要购买的主要仪器分为三类。 首先是一个GPS基站，相关的手持设备，计算机，软件和设置服务。 该仪器将使我们能够对GPS数据进行时间/基地校正，并作为加州湾这一地区的基站，该地区在500公里半径内没有这样的基站。 所做的工作将支持岛屿、海岸、沙漠植被的测绘和海洋哺乳动物的跟踪。 第二套仪器将用于我们在墨西哥湾Midriff岛地区的长须鲸照片识别项目。 这些仪器包括船只马达、照相机、浮游生物和物理海洋学取样装置、双筒望远镜和观测镜。 第三套仪器包括显微镜、橱柜、植物标本室用品和一艘小型充气船，以支持正在进行的关于附近红树林河口商业螃蟹生长和繁殖的研究。 所有这些研究项目都是与墨西哥联邦（国家生态研究所）、地方机构和非政府组织合作进行的。目前，该中心的研究有两个主要重点，1）恶魔岛--岛屿清单、保护和社区管理计划的制定，2）长须鲸（Balaenoptera physalus）照片识别。 这个岛很小（大约半平方公里），火山岛，距离巴伊亚德基诺镇约1.4公里。 这项研究的主要重点是在岛上筑巢的鸬鹚，白鹭和苍鹭。该项目还包括生物清单和该岛的详细地图。我们的外地站的大多数用户是本科生和少数研究生，他们与访问研究人员重叠并经常协助访问研究人员，从而获得宝贵的实地/研究培训。 我们的研究活动的一个重要组成部分是通过在当地社区的环境教育项目的信息传播，通过在会议上的演示文稿，并通过我们的网页上的普雷斯科特学院网站。

Abstract A grant has been awarded to Dr. Edward Boyer at Prescott College to acquire equipment and instruments necessary to support research in the areas of marine ecology, marine conservation and management, and community outreach at the Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies (the Prescott College field station on the Gulf of California). The primary instruments to be purchased fall into three categories. First is a GPS base station, associated hand held units, computers, software, and set up service. This instrumentation will allow us to time/base correct GPS data and serve as the Base Station for this region of the Gulf of California which has no such base station within a 500km radius. The work done will support mapping of islands, and coasts, desert vegetation, and tracking of marine mammals. The second set of instruments is to be utilized in our Fin Whale photo identification project in the Midriff Island region of the Gulf. These instruments include boat motors, cameras, plankton and physical oceanographic sampling devices, binoculars, and spotting scopes. The third set of instruments include microscopes, cabinets, herbarium supplies, and a small inflatable boat to support ongoing research on commercial crab growth and reproduction in nearby mangrove estuaries. All of these research projects are in cooperation with Mexican Federal (Instituto Nacional de Ecologia), and local agencies and NGO's Currently, research at the Center has two major foci, 1) Isla Alcatraz - island inventory, conservation, and community based management plan development and 2) Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) photo identification. The island is small (about one half square km.), volcanic island, about 1.4 kilometer from the town of Bahia de Kino. A primary focus of this research is on nesting cormorants, egrets and herons on the island. A biological inventory and detailed mapping of the island are also part of the project. The majority of the users of our field station are undergraduate students and a small number of graduate students who overlap with and often assist visiting researchers thereby gaining invaluable field/ research training. An important component of our research activities is the dissemination of information via environmental education projects in the local community, by way of presentations at conferences, and through our web pages on the Prescott College website.