FLUID DYNAMICS, DIFFUSION, AND METABOLISM OF CORAL REEF ALGAE

珊瑚礁生态系统是最多样化和最多产的生态系统之一 世界上的生态系统。此外，热带和非洲的许多人类 亚热带沿海环境完全依赖珊瑚 用于食物、建筑材料和保护海岸的珊瑚礁 破坏性的海浪。珊瑚礁也非常脆弱和微妙 容易受到外力干扰的平衡系统，如 人为的影响。珊瑚礁生态系统的洋流扰动 PAL与预测将作为结果发生的变化的比较 人类活动造成的全球气候变化。 据预测，大气温度的上升将导致 随着极地冰盖的融化，海平面显著上升。变化 在全球的热量分配中，无论是在大气中还是海洋中， 也改变了风的模式和海洋环流的模式。合并后的 这些变化的影响将影响热带海洋环境， 珊瑚礁目前欣欣向荣。预测并可能缓解 珊瑚礁环境的重大变化必须建立在 对珊瑚礁如何正常运作以及如何耦合的理解 它们是对周围海洋环境的影响。这是关键所在 理解是水动力学或水运动在其中扮演的角色 控制珊瑚的重要物理和生物过程 珊瑚礁。阐明水动力在细胞代谢中的作用 珊瑚礁中产量最高的部分。阐明了它的作用 水动力学对大豆最多产组分代谢的影响 珊瑚礁生态系统(藻类草坪)是由 美国国家科学基金会。美国国立卫生研究院少数民族的具体目标 生物医学研究支持建议是：a)获得更好的 对流体力学的作用以及两者之间的耦合的认识 珊瑚礁中的物理和生物过程以预测 人类引起的全球气候变化对这些生产力的影响 生态系统。B)让少数族裔学生参与学习 流体力学，从而提供了学习原理的机会 流体的生物物理学和扩散同样适用于 动物循环系统，因此引起了普遍的兴趣。c) 通过MBRS学生的参与，吸引少数族裔学生 到海洋生物学的子领域，那里的少数民族严重 代表人数不足。该MBRS项目将允许主体 调查人员将提高他对NSF资助的 计划并投入额外的时间培训州的MBR学生- 最先进的珊瑚礁生理生态研究方法。

Coral reef ecosystems are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems in the world. Additionally, many humans in tropical and subtropical coastal environments are completely dependent upon coral reefs for food, building materials, and protection of the coast from damaging waves. Coral reefs are also very fragile and delicately balanced systems that are easily disturbed by external forces such as anthropogenic influences. Current disturbances to coral reef ecosystems pal in comparison to changes that are predicted to occur as the result of global climate changes resulting from anthropogenic activities. Predicted increase in atmospheric temperatures are predicted to result in significant increases in sea level as the polar ice caps melt. Changes in global distributions of heat, both in the atmosphere and oceans, will also change wind patterns and ocean circulation patterns. The combined effects of these changes will impact tropical marine environments where coral reefs currently thrive. Prediction and perhaps mitigation of significant changes in coral reef environments must be based on an understanding of how coral reefs normally function and how coupled they are to the surrounding oceanic environment. Central to this understanding is the role that hydrodynamics, or water motion, plays in controlling the important physical and biological processes on coral reefs. Elucidating the role of hydrodynamic on the metabolism of the most productive component of coral reefs. Elucidating the role of hydrodynamics on the metabolism of the most productive component of coral reefs ecosystems (algal turfs) is the focus of a study funded by the National Science Foundation. The specific aims of this NIH Minority Biomedical Research Support proposal are: a) To gain a better understanding of the role of hydrodynamics and the coupling between physical and biological processes in coral reefs in order to predict the effects of human-induced global climate changes on these productive ecosystems. b) To involve minority students in the study of hydrodynamics, thereby giving the opportunity to study the principles of biophysics of fluids and diffusion that are equally applicable to animal circulation systems and are therefore of general interest. c) through the involvement of MBRS students, to attract minority students to the subfield of marine biology, where minorities are severely underrepresented. This MBRS project will allow the principal investigator to increase his level of participation in the NSF-funded project and devote additional time to training MBRS students in state- of-the-art approaches to the physiological ecology of coral reefs.