MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of multiple Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware

MRI-R2 联盟：采购多个环境样本处理器 (ESP) 以及支持系泊和通信硬件

• 批准号: 0958877
• 负责人: Donald Anderson
• 金额: $ 193.42万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Consortium; Acquisition; multiple

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."The PI?s request funds to acquire five Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) and supporting mooring and communications hardware to further their research activities and foster collaborations. The ESP?s will be deployed together in an array configuration to obtain real-time data on a wide range of microorganisms and their metabolites. For many years, this has been a distant dream, but that dream is now close to reality with the development and commercialization of the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) that is the centerpiece of this proposal. The ESP can be deployed subsurface for months at a time. It collects and processes water samples, identifies and enumerates harmful algal bloom (HAB) species, pathogens, and other microorganisms as well as the concentration of specific metabolites such as algal toxins, and relays the data to shore. To foster greater flexibility, the ESP has been designed with a microfluidic block which allows analytical modules of different types (e.g., quantitative PCR) to be placed downstream of the water processing core. A wide variety of organisms and chemicals of interest to science and society can be analyzed over time scales that are not otherwise possible, all in automated fashion. Broader ImpactsThe potential broader impacts include: educational and outreach benefits from numerous undergraduates, graduate students, post docs, technical staff, and senior faculty working with the ESPs through various projects; various summer internship programs provided by WHOI and Biosecurity, Inc. for undergraduates including minority students; Monterey Bay Aquarium has included the ESP in a program that runs twice a day reaching almost 300,000 people a year; Volunteer phytoplankton researchers from 11 different states will be exposed to the ESP at various training workshops; scientifically, the placement of more ESP's into the ocean and eventually onto mobile platforms will give us the potential to inform and drive adaptive sampling in the way that CTD measurements do now; testing and establishing ESP technology will not only further the proposed research but also contribute to commercial interests that manufacture and sell advanced scientific instrumentation. As the technology is proven, other research groups will seek to incorporate it, and demand for the same or similar instruments will grow; many of the enabled/enhanced projects (research and educational) supported by this proposal are multi-investigator, and even multi-institutional, in nature and would further increase networking and partnering among relevant research groups.

“该奖项是根据2009年的《美国回收与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。” PI要求资金收购五个环境样本处理器（ESP），并支持系泊和通信硬件，以进一步进一步研究其研究活动并促进协作。 ESP将一起部署在数组配置中，以获取广泛的微生物及其代谢物上的实时数据。多年以来，这一直是一个遥远的梦想，但是现在，随着环境样本处理器（ESP）的发展和商业化，这一梦想已接近现实，这是该提议的核心。 ESP可以一次部署几个月。它收集和处理水样，识别并列举有害的藻华（HAB）种类，病原体和其他微生物，以及特定代谢产物（例如藻类毒素）的浓度，并将数据传递到岸上。为了提高灵活性，ESP是使用微流体块设计的，该模块允许将不同类型的分析模块（例如定量PCR）放置在水加工核心的下游。可以通过自动化的方式分析各种科学和社会感兴趣的生物和社会感兴趣的化学物质。更广泛的影响，潜在的更广泛的影响包括：众多本科生，研究生，邮政学科，技术人员以及通过各种项目与ESPS合作的教育和外展益处； Whoi and Biosecurity，Inc。为包括少数族裔学生在内的本科生提供的各种暑期实习计划；蒙特利湾水族馆（Monterey Bay Aquarium）将ESP纳入了一项计划，该计划每天两次运行两次，每年达到30万人；来自11个不同州的志愿浮游植物研究人员将在各种培训研讨会上接触ESP；从科学上讲，将更多的ESP放置在海洋中，并最终将其放置在移动平台上，将使我们有可能以CTD测量的方式为自适应抽样提供信息；测试和建立ESP技术不仅将进一步进一步拟议的研究，还将促进制造和销售先进科学仪器的商业利益。根据技术的证明，其他研究小组将寻求纳入该技术，对同一或相似工具的需求将增长；本提案支持的许多启用/增强的项目（研究和教育）是多本质的，甚至是多机构的，并且将进一步增加相关研究小组之间的网络和合作。