Steacie Fellowship RTI - Fish Tracking System

我在卡尔顿大学鱼类生态学和保护生理学实验室的团队研究野生鱼类的应激生态学。我们的长期目标是建立对环境、生理、行为和健康之间的相互关系的清晰理解，并扩大到群体。这项工作将为人类引起的快速环境变化对野生生物的影响提供功能性理解，同时阐明个体生理和种群下降之间的机制关系。2014年底，我获得了美国国家自然科学研究委员会（NSERC） E.W.R.斯泰西奖学金，题目是“了解多重压力源对太平洋鲑鱼迁徙的影响”。为了这个奖项，我们将确定上游迁徙的鲑鱼对多种压力源的反应，以及在迁徙的一个阶段所经历的压力源的影响是否会延续到随后的时间和地点。尽管携带效应具有潜在的重要性，但由于在空间和时间上跟踪个体存在困难，因此很少对其进行研究。斯泰西奖学金建立在我的发现基金（DG）中提出的想法之上，但就开展一系列覆盖整个流域的大规模实地实验而言，它更具雄心和挑战性，而且还涉及确定单个鱼类是否产卵。为了支持我在未来两年的斯泰西奖学金中概述的研究，并为我提供将这种机械领域研究整合到我的NSERC DG计划中的能力，我需要专门的设备。所要求的设备是利用结合生物遥测（信息远程传输）和生物记录（信息记录供以后下载）的电子标记技术跟踪野生鱼类。无线电遥测技术需要描述迁徙行为、确定命运、使鱼类恢复并定位配备了生物学家标签的鱼类，以促进标签的恢复和下载。拟议的设备将促进pdf，研究生和本科生的培训，同时使他们能够进行创造性和前沿的研究，将生态学，行为学，生理学和保护联系起来。

My team in the Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory at Carleton studies the ecology of stress in wild fish. Our long-term goal is to establish a clear understanding of the inter-relationships between the environment, physiology, behaviour and fitness at the individual level as well as scaling up to populations. This body of work will provide a functional understanding of the effect of human-induced rapid environmental change on wild organisms while elucidating the mechanistic relationships between individual physiology and population declines. In late 2014, I was awarded an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship titled "Understanding the consequences of multiple stressors on the migration of Pacific salmon". For that award we will determine how upriver migrating salmon respond to multiple stressors and whether the effects of stressors experienced at one stage of the migration will carry over to subsequent times and locations. Despite the potential importance of carry-over effects, they are rarely studied due to difficulties associated with tracking individuals through space and time. The Steacie Fellowship builds on the ideas developed in my Discovery Grant (DG) but is much more ambitious and challenging in terms of mounting a series of large-scale field experiments that cover entire watersheds yet involve determining whether individual fish spawn. To support the research outlined in my Steacie Fellowship over the next two years and to provide me with the ability to integrate that type of mechanistic field research into my NSERC DG program, I require specialized equipment. The equipment requested is for the tracking of wild fish using electronic tagging technology combining elements of biotelemetry (remote transmission of information) and biologging (information logged for later downloading). Radio telemetry is needed to characterize migration behaviour, identify fate, enable the recovery of fish and locate fish equipped with biologger tags to facilitate tag recovery and downloading. The proposed equipment will facilitate the training of PDFs, graduate students and undergrads while enabling them to conduct creative and cutting edge studies that bridge ecology, behaviour, physiology and conservation.