Improvements to Sampling from the Research Vessel Ira C

研究船 Ira C 采样的改进

• 批准号: 0934314
• 负责人: Mary Perry
• 金额: $ 8.47万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improvements; Sampling; Research; Vessel; Ira

The University of Maine?s Darling Marine Center is awarded a grant to equip the 42-ft Ira C., the Center?s largest vessel, with a well instrumented CTD, including optical sensors and a small array of sampling bottles plus a winch with conducting cable so that CTD work from the Ira C. no longer needs to depend on users bringing their own CTD and lowering by hand. This proposal is to expand the environments and variables within effective reach of the University of Maine?s marine laboratory, the Ira C. Darling Marine Center (the Center) in midcoast Maine. The Center is within a day?s access by sea of an unparalleled range of marine environments on the East Coast?depths from intertidal to 200 m and substrates from rocks to gravels to sand to mud. Environments within a day?s reach include the coastal seas with the strongest latitudinal thermal gradients along the U.S. coasts and the largest seasonal range of temperatures. It includes the outflows of Maine?s three rivers with the greatest volumetric flows, the Penobscot, the Kennebec and the Saco as well as several of the smallest. It is ideally poised to help investigators do process-, ecosystem- and species-level studies of Gulf of Maine and estuarine environments and biota in the context of environmental variability and climate change. Broader Impacts: The Center has an outstanding group of faculty and scientists including some distinguished emeritus professors. The center also has a remarkable record of visiting scientists and students, drawing researchers from all over the U.S. and internationally. Clearly an attraction is the facilities (including a first rate library) and access to a unique spectrum of marine environments, biogeographically diverse populations of marine organisms, etc. The need for the proposed improvements is easily recognized. The authors describe how the facility is used for education and how the upgrades will increase users for both science and for education. The Center currently has NSF COSEE support, and the author proposes to leverage off this program for K-grey teacher training, undergraduate, and graduate and 'world-class' web-based educational outreach.

缅因州的达令海军陆战队中心被授予赠款，以配备42英尺的IRA C.，该中心是最大的船只，配备了良好的CTD，其中包括光学传感器和一小部分采样瓶以及带有电缆的绞车，以使IRA C的CTD工作，因此无需再依靠自己的CTD来依靠自己的CTD和较低的用户。该提议是在缅因州海洋实验室，IRA C. Darling Marine Center（该中心）的有效范围内扩展环境和变量。该中心是在一天之内的东海岸无与伦比的海洋环境范围内的，从潮流到200 m的深度以及从岩石到砾石再到沙子到泥土的底物。一天之内的环境包括在美国沿海地区拥有最强纬度热梯度和最大季节性温度范围的沿海海洋。它包括缅因州三河的流出，具有最大的体积流量，Penobscot，Kennebec和Saco以及最小的几个。理想情况下，在环境变化和气候变化的背景下，它可以帮助研究人员对缅因州和河口环境的过程，生态系统和物种水平的研究以及生物群。更广泛的影响：该中心拥有一群杰出的教职员工和科学家，其中包括一些杰出的名誉教授。该中心还拥有来访的科学家和学生的出色记录，吸引了来自美国各地的研究人员。显然，吸引人的设施（包括一流库）和访问独特的海洋环境，生物地理位置上多样化的海洋生物种群等。作者描述了该设施如何用于教育，以及升级将如何增加科学和教育的用户。该中心目前拥有NSF Cosee的支持，作者提议将该计划放在K-Grey教师培训，本科生以及毕业生和“世界级”基于Web的教育外展上。