FSML: Climate Change Facility at Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis

加州大学戴维斯分校获得了一笔赠款，用于加强博德加海洋实验室研究气候变化的实验设施。博德加海洋实验室是世界上最重要的海洋研究和教育现场设施之一。 45年多来，博德加海洋实验室一直是从旧金山弗朗西斯科湾到角竞技场的研究和教育活动的门户。博德加实验室准备迅速应对沿海地区的紧迫社会问题。随着最近关于海洋生态系统状况的国家报告卡呼吁进行气候变化研究，一项新的三州协议（加州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿）协调沿海保护工作，预计国家和州的新资金来源，博德加海洋实验室建议建造新的设施，可以很容易地产生和控制复杂的多-研究人员和学生研究气候变化影响所需的可变环境。博德加海洋实验室的气候变化设施提供了一个杰出的和无与伦比的机会，作为一个海洋观测网络，提供长期数据的一套复杂的现实世界的沿海环境变量需要在受控环境中创建现实的情况。该奖项将为一个旨在与海洋，河口和淡水物种，包括非本地和幼虫生物合作的设施提供资金。该设施的模块化布置允许实验重复所需的灵活性，并易于容纳静态，半控制，封闭和流通实验系统。气候设施将提供所需的共用设施，以方便地操纵气候变化的典型环境变量，这些变量可以现场控制和监测，也可以通过计算机接口远程控制和监测。高度跨学科和协作的用户基础和实验基础设施将提供对气候变化和气候对幼虫生物学，海洋生理学，环境毒理学，分子遗传学，海洋生态学，鱼类和无脊椎动物行为，海洋植物学，保护生物学和入侵物种生物学的影响的复杂多层次生态系统响应的深入了解。该项目将吸引新的跨学科合作，提高设施应对气候变化问题的能力，加强对新科学家的培训，并推进海洋实验室设施的设计和性能。

The University of California-Davis has been awarded a grant to enhance experimental facilities to study climate change at the Bodega Marine Lab. The Bodega Marine Lab is one of the worlds premier field facilities for marine research and education. For more than 45 years, the Bodega Marine Lab has served as a gateway for research and educational activities from San Francisco Bay to Point Arena. The Bodega Lab is poised to respond quickly to pressing societal problems plaguing the coastal zone. With recent national report cards on the state of ocean ecosystems calling for climate change research, a new tri-state agreement (California, Oregon and Washington) coordinating coastal conservation efforts, and new sources of national and state funding anticipated, Bodega Marine Lab proposes to construct new facilities that can easily generate and control complex multi-variable environments needed by researchers and students to study the effects of climate change. The climate change facility at Bodega Marine Lab provides an outstanding and unparalleled opportunity as an ocean observing network that provides long-term data on a complex suite of real-world coastal environmental variables needed for the creation of realistic scenarios in controlled environments. The award will provide funds for a facility that is designed for work with marine, estuarine, and freshwater species, including non-native and larval organisms. A modular arrangement of the facility allows flexibility needed for experimental replicates, and easily accommodates static, semi-controlled, closed, and flow-through experimental systems. The climate facility will provide co-located utilities needed to easily manipulate environmental variables typical of climate change that can be controlled and monitored on-site or remotely via a computer-interface. The highly interdisciplinary and collaborative user base and experiments enabled by the infrastructure will provide an in-depth understanding of the complex multi-level ecosystem responses to climate change and climate effects on larval biology, marine physiology, environmental toxicology, molecular genetics, marine ecology, fish and invertebrate behavior, marine botany, conservation biology, and invasive species biology. The project will attract new interdisciplinary collaborations, increase facility capacity to address climate change issues, enhance training of new scientists, and advance marine lab facility design and performance.