MRI/RUI Acquisition of Planktonic Sampling Equipment for Southeast Alaska

这项主要研究仪器奖授予了阿拉斯加大学东南朱诺校区，为购买用于沿海海洋学和海洋生态学研究的现场仪器提供资金。这里支持的仪器包括(1)便携式电池供电的电导率-温度-深度（CTD）仪器，该仪器带有水样旋转盘和瓶子，以及辅助的PAR（光合有效辐射）、荧光计、溶解氧和透射计传感器；(2)用于水柱各层采样的多个开闭网系统。研究阿拉斯加东南部沿海和河口水域的浮游生物群落及其与物理、化学和生物特性的关系。他们将在这个以本科生为主的校园里开展涉及年轻教师和学生的研究项目，并将通过实地课程和校园本科生研究经验（REU）计划，吸引学生，特别是代表性不足的群体的成员进入海洋科学事业。该仪器奖由美国国家科学基金会海洋科学部资助。＊＊＊

0321319EckertThis Major Research Instrumentation award to University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus provides funds for acquisition of field instrumentation for research in coastal oceanography and marine ecology. Instruments supported here include (1) a portable, battery-powered conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instrument with a water sampling carousel and bottles, plus ancillary PAR (photosynthetic available radiation), fluorometer, dissolved oxygen and transmissometer sensors and (2) a multiple opening-closing net system for sampling individual layers of the water column The instruments will be used in a variety of projects, mostly in Glacier Bay, Alaska, to study planktonic communities and their relationships to physical, chemical and biological properties in the coastal and estuarine waters of southeastern Alaska. They will enable research projects involving young faculty and students at this predominantly-undergraduate campus, and they will be used to attract students, especially members of underrepresented groups, into marine science careers via field courses and the campus' Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The instrumentation award is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. ***