ICBR: Repurposing Infrastructure to Advance State of the Art Research Methods, Keys Marine Lab

Keys海洋实验室（KML）是一个全方位服务的实验室，支持佛罗里达州立大学系统（SUS）作为佛罗里达海洋学研究所（FIO）的一部分的使命。“卓越的教学、研究和公共服务”的使命反映在KML的使命中，即通过提供现场和实地研究经验以及最先进的教学和研究工具来培养未来的海洋科学家。KML位于美国大陆唯一一个拥有亚热带和热带生态系统的珊瑚礁中部，吸引了来自世界各地的科学家、教师、本科生和研究生。2015年，KML与FIO一起被SUS理事会指定为学术基础设施支持组织（AISO）。因此，实验室的任务是提供基础设施、工具和专业知识，以支持学术项目和研究，重点是现场和比较实验室的经验。2015年，在KML建立了一个基于井的海水系统，为水质的后投和预报预测提供了实验研究能力。该设施支持对两种列入《濒危物种法》的珊瑚——鹿角珊瑚和柱状珊瑚的研究。使用该系统的需求急剧增长，根据该合同提供的资金将扩大该关键系统的能力并改进其功能。通过系统的流量将升级，以提供控制水质的能力，包括温度、pH值、pO2，同时提供多达62个容量从1到1100加仑的水箱的实时空间。具体的改进有：1)提供当前盐度、温度和氧饱和度可改变的海水，同时能够通过海湾供水系统向另外62个水箱提供代表当前条件的水；2)提供在不同深度的环境中，以代表过去、现在或未来水质条件的水进行中尺度研究的能力，这些环境的深度相当于佛罗里达湾中部沿海的平均深度；3)提供利用不同水质的水进行实时水质研究的新能力，从小型1加仑水箱到中尺度尺度，在近岸中礁岛佛罗里达湾的大约平均深度。这些改进将提供一个mesocosmos，可用于模拟实验室所在的中礁岛佛罗里达湾附近沿海水域。有关KML和该海水系统的更多信息，请访问他们的网站http://www.keysmarinelab.org/.This。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行了评估，认为值得支持。

The Keys Marine Lab (KML) is a full-service laboratory supporting the mission of Florida's State University System (SUS) as part of the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO). The mission of the SUS to achieve "excellence in teaching, research and public service" is reflected in the mission of KML which is to educate the marine scientists of tomorrow by providing on site and field research experiences and state of the art tools for teaching and for research. KML's location in the middle of the only living barrier reef in the continental US with subtropical and tropical ecosystems, attracts scientists, faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, from around the world. KML was designated, with FIO, as an Academic Infrastructure Support Organization (AISO) by the SUS Board of Governors in 2015. As such, the laboratory is mandated to provide the infrastructure, tools and expertise, needed to support academic programs and research, with an emphasis on field and comparative laboratory experiences. A well-based seawater system was constructed at KML in 2015 to provide experimental research capability for hind-cast and forecast predictions of water quality. This facility supports research on two coral species listed under the Endangered Species Act, staghorn and pillar coral. Demand for the use of this system has grown dramatically and the funds provided under this award will expand the capacity and improve the functionality of this critical system.The flow through system will be upgraded to provide the ability to manipulate water quality, including temperature, pH, pO2 and simultaneously provide real time bay to up to 62 tanks that range in size from 1 to 1100 gallons. Specific improvements are: 1) provide sea water at current salinity, temperature and oxygen saturation, that can be changed while simultaneously being able to provide water that is representative of current conditions to an additional 62 tanks already available via the Bay water system; 2) provide the ability to conduct mesocosm research with water representing past, present or future water quality conditions in an environment of varying depth equivalent to average coastal Florida Bay depth in the middle Keys; 3) to provide the new ability to conduct research using real time water quality with water of different quality from small scale, 1 gallon tanks to the mesocosm scale at approximate average depth of Florida Bay in the nearshore Middle Keys. These improvements will provide a mesocosm that can be used to simulate the near coastal waters of Florida Bay in the middle Keys where the laboratory is located. For more information about KML and this seawater system, visit their website at http://www.keysmarinelab.org/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.