Planning Activities between Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Jinan University, China

该奖项资助国际组织前往暨南大学策划一个合作研究项目，致力于比较南极洲麦克默多湾已知物种南极棕囊藻和鲜为人知的球形棕囊藻的生态生理学、营养动力学和菌落形成规律，后者最近被发现大量繁殖，并对广州中国沿海的环境造成严重破坏。棕囊藻是世界范围内的一个优势浮游植物属，其独特的生活周期在小的孤立细胞和大的粘性菌落之间交替。这次计划访问的目的是对这两个物种进行合作和比较研究，以便更好地了解它们的生物地球化学循环和对环境的影响。美国首席研究员是威廉与玛丽学院弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所(VIMS)的Kam Tang教授。中国的对口研究员是广州暨南大学水生生物研究所的齐玉外教授。VIMS研究生将有独特的机会参观位于中国的一所领先的海洋研究机构，并在他们职业生涯的早期积极为国际背景下的研究规划做出贡献。规划活动还包括与中国极地研究所的科学家会面，讨论结合国际极地年开展合作的机会。

This award supports travel for the PIs to Jinan University to plan a collaborative research project devoted to comparing the ecophysiology, trophodynamics and regulation of colony formation of a known species, Phaeocystis Antarctica, in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica with less understood Phaeocystis globosa, which has been discovered to be proliferating recently in large quantities and causing severe damage to the environment along the coast of Guangzhou China. Phaeocystis is a dominant phytoplankton genus worldwide with a peculiar life cycle that alternates between small solitary cells and large mucilaginous colonies. The planning visit is designed to lead to a collaborative, comparative study of these two species in order to better understand their biogeochemical cycles and impacts on the environment. The lead U.S. researcher is Professor Kam Tang of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) at the College of William and Mary. The counterpart researcher in China is Professor Qi, Yuwai of the Institute of Hydrobiology at Jinan University in Guangzhou. VIMS graduate students will have the unique opportunity to visit a leading oceanographic institution in China and actively contribute to planning research in an international context early in their careers. The planning activities also include meeting with scientists from the China Polar Institute to discuss opportunities for collaboration in conjunction with the International Polar Year.