Moorea Coral Reef Scientific Diving Upgrade

加州伯克利大学获得一笔赠款，以提高其在理查德B的科学潜水能力。Gump南太平洋研究站，包括两艘带拖车的新研究船，一个更高容量的压缩机，以及扩大的潜水储物柜，以容纳更多的潜水员。 此次升级将满足热带海洋生态学，生物多样性，海洋酸化，保护生物学和海洋学的强大研究和教学计划的需求。 由于法国科学家和其他国际研究人员发起的研究历史悠久，包括美国越来越多的参与，莫雷阿岛的珊瑚礁是世界上研究得最好的珊瑚礁之一。太平洋岛屿的珊瑚礁是生物多样性的热点，是具有重大社会意义和经济价值的资源。 它们代表了地球上保存最完好的珊瑚礁。 然而，往往与人类活动有关的地方和全球进程日益威胁到这些特殊自然系统的持续健康。 因此，对珊瑚礁的种群动态、生态系统过程、生物多样性和复原力进行新的研究，对于成功管理、养护和恢复珊瑚礁至关重要。 该项目将通过面向过程的研究和长期研究，提高理解和维持这些系统及其为社会提供的服务的能力。 此次升级将促进研究生和本科水平的海洋科学高级培训，使美国各地大学和学院的学生受益。该项目位于法属波利尼西亚，将为美国科学家和学生提供国际和多元文化的经验。 Gump Station有一个强大的外展计划，通过其合作伙伴当地社区组织：Association Te Pu Atitia。 此次升级将加强莫雷阿岛的海洋科学研究和教育，使Gump Station和Te Pu Atitia能够将这些发现传达给当地社区-特别是K-12学校-并进一步制定计划，以接触历史上代表性不足的科学群体（包括波利尼西亚人和其他太平洋岛民）。 有关Gump Station的更多信息，请访问他们的网站http://moorea.berkeley.edu/。

The University of California Berkeley is awarded a grant to increase its scientific diving capabilities at the Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station, including two new research boats with trailers, a higher capacity compressor, and expanded dive lockers to accommodate additional divers. The upgrade will serve the needs of strong research and instructional programs in tropical marine ecology, biodiversity, ocean acidification, conservation biology, and oceanography. The reefs of Moorea are among the best studied in the world, as a result of a long history of research initiated by French scientists and other international researchers, including a growing involvement from the U.S. The new infrastructure will support a diverse group of researchers and their students, building on the NSF-funded Moorea Coral Reef LTER and other NSF-funded research in the marine sciences on Moorea. Coral reefs of the islands of the Pacific are hotspots for biological diversity and are sources of great societal significance and economic value. They represent some of the best-preserved coral reefs remaining anywhere on Earth. Local and global processes, often associated with human activities, however, increasingly threaten the continued health of these exceptional natural systems. Thus, new research on population dynamics, ecosystem processes, biodiversity and resilience of coral reefs is critical to their successful management, conservation, and restoration. This project will enhance the ability to understand and sustain these systems and the services they provide society through process-oriented research and long-term studies. The upgrade will promote advanced training in marine science at the graduate and undergraduate level, benefiting students from universities and colleges from across the United States. Located in French Polynesia, the project will have the added benefit of providing international and multi-cultural experience for American scientists and students. The Gump Station has a strong outreach program through collaborations brokered by its partner local community organization: Association Te Pu Atitia. The upgrade will strengthen marine science research and education on Moorea enabling the Gump Station and Te Pu Atitia to communicate these findings to the local community - particularly K-12 schools - and to further develop programs that reach out to historically underrepresented groups in science (including Polynesians and other Pacific Islanders). For more information about the Gump Station see their website at http://moorea.berkeley.edu/.