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 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金的。”PI 请求资金购买五个环境样本处理器 (ESP) 以及支持系泊和通信硬件，以进一步开展他们的研究活动和促进合作。 ESP 将按阵列配置一起部署，以获得各种微生物及其代谢物的实时数据。多年来，这一直是一个遥远的梦想，但随着作为该提案核心的环境样本处理器 (ESP) 的开发和商业化，这个梦想已经接近现实。 ESP 可以一次在地下部署数月。它收集和处理水样，识别和列举有害藻华 (HAB) 物种、病原体和其他微生物以及特定代谢物（例如藻类毒素）的浓度，并将数据转发到岸上。为了提高灵活性，ESP 设计了微流体模块，允许将不同类型的分析模块（例如定量 PCR）放置在水处理核心的下游。科学和社会感兴趣的各种生物体和化学物质可以在时间尺度上进行分析，而这在其他情况下是不可能的，所有这些都以自动化的方式进行。更广泛的影响 潜在的更广泛影响包括： 通过各种项目与 ESP 合作的众多本科生、研究生、博士后、技术人员和高级教员带来的教育和推广效益； WHOI 和 Biosecurity, Inc. 为包括少数民族学生在内的本科生提供的各种暑期实习项目；蒙特利湾水族馆 (Monterey Bay Aquarium) 将 ESP 纳入一项每天运行两次的项目中，每年覆盖近 300,000 名游客；来自 11 个不同州的浮游植物研究志愿者将在各种培训研讨会上接触 ESP；从科学角度来说，将更多的 ESP 放入海洋并最终放置到移动平台上，将使我们有可能以 CTD 测量现在的方式通知和驱动自适应采样；测试和建立 ESP 技术不仅将进一步推进拟议的研究，而且有助于制造和销售先进科学仪器的商业利益。随着该技术得到证实，其他研究小组将寻求将其纳入其中，对相同或类似仪器的需求将会增长；该提案支持的许多启用/加强项目（研究和教育）本质上是多研究者、甚至多机构的，将进一步加强相关研究小组之间的网络和合作。