RUI: Acquisition of Tools for Top-Down Management of Aquatic Systems: Evaluating Success at the Bottom of the Food Chain

纽约州立大学奥尼奥尼塔学院(纽约州立大学奥尼奥尼塔分校)获得了一笔赠款，用于其生物野外站(BFS)，以获得一台成像流式细胞仪，用于协调长期的湖泊(渔业、浮游动物和浮游植物)监测和研究，以及由纽约州立大学奥尼奥尼塔分校和位于科布尔斯基尔的纽约州立大学农业与技术学院的教职员工开展的研究培训/教育，包括继续与康奈尔大学S声学渔业研究计划合作。该仪器将提供快速的浮游动物和浮游植物检测和图像捕获，以便在奥塞戈湖和附近的Lentium水体对其进行计数和识别，大大增加可在实验室分析的浮游动物和浮游植物(包括蓝藻)的收集数量。这将加强更好地了解内陆水域初级消费者和生产者的空间和时间动态的能力。该仪器将用于(1)描述受引入的外来生物刺激的营养级联影响的浮游生物群落及其管理；以及(2)加强浮游生物分析，为生物多样性研究中心和合作机构开展的若干长期监测和研究项目作出贡献。有助于奥塞戈湖恢复和可持续发展的工作成果可以与其他内陆和大湖的数据进行比较和衔接，并适用于全国存在类似问题的湖泊。确定自上而下的管理战略有合理的成功机会的湖泊，以积极影响与初级生产力增加(富营养化)相关的症状，或至少提高大型浮游动物的过滤效率，在这些湖泊中，引入饲料鱼减少了浮游动物的数量，这对全国湖泊管理界是非常有益的。这些研究直接应用于本区域湖泊和湿地的当地恢复和可持续性，并通过应用技术和培训专业管理人员，广泛适用于国际上应用的自然资源管理。纽约州立大学Oneonta BFS有很强的传统，培训学生(准备上大学的高中、本科生和研究生)进行生态和环境研究。获得最先进的仪器设备可以增强暑期实习和学年本科研究计划，使学生能够掌握继续研究生学习或专业培训所需的技能，或获得相关的入门职位。它还增加了纽约州立大学奥尼奥塔生物系提供的一个新的研究生项目--湖泊管理科学硕士的可用资源。有关生物野外站的更多信息，请访问网站：http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/biofld/.

The State University of New York College at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta) has been awarded a grant for its Biological Field Station (BFS) to acquire an maging flow cytometer for coordinated long-term limnological (fisheries, zooplankton and phytoplankton) monitoring and research, and research training/education conducted by faculty and staff of SUNY Oneonta and the SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, and including continued collaboration with Cornell University?s acoustic-based fisheries research program. The instrumentation will provide for rapid zooplankton and phytoplankton detection and image capture for their enumeration and identification in Otsego Lake and nearby lentic water bodies, greatly increasing the numbers of collections of zooplankton and phytoplankton (including cyanobacteria) that can be analyzed in the laboratory. This will enhance the capability to better understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of primary consumers and producers in inland waters. The instrumentation will be used to (1) describe planktonic communities influenced by trophic cascades stimulated by introduced exotics and their management; and (2) enhance plankton analysis, contributing to a number of long-term monitoring and research projects conducted by the BFS and collaborating institutions. Results of work contributing to the restoration and sustainability of Otsego Lake can be compared and articulated with data from other inland and Great lakes, and applied to lakes with similar problems nationwide. Characterizing lakes where there is a reasonable chance of success for top-down management strategies to positively impact symptoms associated with increased primary productivity (eutrophication), or at least increase the filtering efficiencies of large-bodied zooplankton where introduced forage fish have reduced those zooplankton populations, is of great benefit to the lake management community nationwide. These studies have direct application to the local restoration and sustainability of lakes and wetlands in our region and broad relevance to applied natural resource management internationally through the application of technologies and the training of professional managers. The SUNY Oneonta BFS has a strong tradition of training students (college-bound high school, undergraduate, and graduate) in ecological and environmental studies. Access to state-of-the-art instrumentation enhances summer internships and academic-year undergraduate research programs, enabling students to master skills needed to pursue graduate study or professional training, or to obtain related entry-level positions. It also enhances the resources available to a new graduate program, the Master of Science in Lake Management, offered by SUNY Oneonta's Biology Department. For more information about the Biological Field Station please see the website at http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/biofld/.