CAREER: From Fish Habitat to Restoration - Understanding Fish Responses to Turbulence

提案编号： CTS-0447427主要制造商：ALINE COTEL机构： 密歇根大学职业：从鱼类栖息地到恢复-了解鱼类对湍流的反应高质量的栖息地对于确保健康的生态系统以及生物有机体的成功生长、生存和繁殖至关重要。 更深入地了解栖息地特征和生物有机体之间的关系，可以为各种环境提供更有效的恢复方法。 在运动的许多生态学重要方面中，湍流被认为对鱼类的稳定性造成了巨大的挑战。 了解鱼类在湍流中稳定姿态和轨迹的能力似乎是研究机械原理如何影响场行为和分布的重要且特别有效的候选者。 这项工作建立在生物学家和工程师之间富有成效的合作基础上，并已扩展到包括愿意攻读自然资源和工程双学位的研究生的共同培训。 此外，通过本科生研究机会计划（UROP）等计划，本科生在学年和夏季都参与了这一富有成效的跨学科工作。这两个小组之间的互动使两个学科在更广泛和更深入的意义上看待现实世界的环境问题。 正在探索的一个选择是在土木与环境工程本科学位范围内开发一个与鱼类栖息地和恢复有关的新的重点领域。 该项目将对社会产生更广泛的影响。 人们对大坝拆除、溪流和河流恢复以及海岸线保护和恢复有相当大的兴趣，拟议研究的结果将提供数据，帮助就这些问题进行辩论。 科学知识对于实现五大湖的国家目标至关重要。 人类的发展带来了海岸线水流特征变化的威胁，这些特征不适合鱼类。从研究中获得的见解将在城镇会议和其他当地媒体上与社区分享。

PROPOSAL NO.: CTS-0447427PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: ALINE COTELINSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANCAREER: FROM FISH HABITAT TO RESTORATION- UNDERSTANDING FISH RESPONSES TO TURBULENCEHigh quality habitats are essential to ensure healthy ecosystems and therefore successful growth, survival and reproduction of biological organisms. A deeper understanding of the relationship between habitat characteristics and biological organisms leads to more efficient restoration methods for a variety of environments. Among many ecologically important aspects of locomotion, turbulence is believed to create large stability challenges for fishes. Understanding the abilities of fishes to stabilize postures and trajectories in turbulent flows appears to be an important and especially effective candidate towards examining how mechanical principles affect field behavior and distributions. This work builds upon a fruitful collaboration between a biologist and an engineer and has expanded to include co-training of graduate students willing to pursue dual degrees in Natural Resources and Engineering. In addition, through programs such as Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), undergraduate students are involved in this productive, interdisciplinary work during both the academic year and the summer. The interaction between the two groups allows both disciplines to look at real-world environmental issues in a broader and deeper sense. An option being explored is to develop a new focus area related to fish habitat and restoration within the Civil and Environmental Engineering undergraduate degree. This project will have even broader impacts for society. There is considerable interest in dam removal, stream and river restoration, and shoreline protection and rehabilitation, and results from the proposed research will provide data to help inform debate on these subjects. Scientific knowledge is essential in order to achieve national goals for the Great Lakes. Human development carries the threat of changes in shoreline flow signatures that are unsuitable for fishes. Insights gained from the research will be shared with the community in town meetings and other local media.