International Collaborations on the Black Sea

摘要提案编号：OISE-0912669首席研究员：詹姆斯·默里机构：华盛顿大学标题：黑海国际合作研究所计划与博阿齐奇大学的巴哈因斯教授和伊斯坦布尔技术大学的奥尔罕因斯教授建立新的研究伙伴关系。这一伙伴关系的目标是对细菌和古菌在黑海氮转化和其他反应中的作用进行新的综合研究。 一名研究生将能够为他目前在黑海的博士研究建立联系。发展更密切的合作也应该为华盛顿大学和土耳其大学之间未来的研究生交流打开大门。对缺氧微生物生态系统的新研究将把细菌介导的过程与古细菌介导的过程结合起来。很少有其他这样的综合努力，试图解释的背景下，生物有机体介导的反应的化学分布。碳酸盐系统模型研究将提供有关黑海碳酸盐物种分布的基本知识，以及这些物种如何对大气中增加的二氧化碳（海洋酸化）和深层注入的液态二氧化碳的扰动作出反应。如果一个黑海国家制定了出售这一过程的碳信用额的计划，固碳模型的结果将特别有用。

AbstractProposal Number: OISE-0912669Principal Investigator: James MurrayInstitution: University of WashingtonTitle: International Collaboration on the Black SeaThe PIs plan to develop a new research partnership with Prof. Bahar Ince of Bogazici University and Prof. Orhan Ince of Istanbul Technical University. The goal of this partnership is to develop a new integrated study of the roles of bacteria and archaea on nitrogen transformations and other reactions in the Black Sea. A graduate student will be able to establish contacts for his current doctoral research on the Black Sea. Developing closer collaboration should also open the door to future graduate student exchanges between the University of Washington and Turkish universities. The new studies on anoxic microbial ecosystems will integrate work on bacterially mediated processes with those mediated by archaea. There are few other such integrative efforts trying to interpret the chemical distributions in the context of the biological organisms mediating the reactions. The carbonate system model studies will provide fundamental knowledge about the distribution of carbonate species in the Black Sea and how these respond to perturbations of carbon dioxide added from the atmosphere (ocean acidification) and liquid carbon dioxide injected at depth. The sequestration model results will be particularly useful if one of the Black Sea countries develops a plan to sell carbon credits for this process.