Synthesis and Modeling of Harmful Algal Blooms and Coastal Microbes Along the Gulf of Mexico U.S. States

墨西哥湾沿岸有害藻华和沿海微生物的合成和建模

• 批准号: 1127813
• 负责人: Maria Olascoaga
• 金额: $ 20.03万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Synthesis; Modeling; Harmful; Algal; Blooms

The ability to predict and mitigate the ecological and health impacts of global climate change depends upon the availability of integrated models. In this project, researchers at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami will compile and begin synthesis of archived Gulf of Mexico environmental datasets related to harmful algal blooms (HAB) and microbial pathogens. The research team is capitalizing on six years of interdisciplinary HAB and pollution-associated pathogen research. The primary research focus will be the role of low-mixing areas combined with anthropogenic influences from nutrient-rich freshwater runoff. The goal is to build the database necessary to assess the tole of global climatic change upon the occurrence and spread of HABs and human pathogen in the zone extending from beaches to the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.Broader Impacts: The study has high societal relevance and importance because of the well-known and increasing occurrences disease attributable to HABs and human pathogens in coastal Florida and the Gulf of Mexico region. It will also serve as an important resource for further research and public education in the ecology of HABs and human enteropathogens in tropical and subtropical marine waters and their impacts on human health at a time of global climatic change.

预测和减轻全球气候变化对生态和健康影响的能力取决于综合模型的可用性。 在该项目中，迈阿密大学罗森斯蒂尔海洋与大气科学学院的研究人员将编译并开始综合与有害藻华 (HAB) 和微生物病原体相关的墨西哥湾环境数据集存档。 该研究团队正在利用六年的跨学科 HAB 和污染相关病原体研究。 主要研究重点是低混合区域的作用以及营养丰富的淡水径流的人为影响。 目标是建立必要的数据库，以评估全球气候变化对从海滩到墨西哥湾开放水域的区域内有害细菌和人类病原体的发生和传播的影响。 更广泛的影响：该研究具有很高的社会影响相关性和重要性，因为在佛罗里达州沿海和墨西哥湾地区，由 HAB 和人类病原体引起的疾病众所周知且不断增加。 它还将成为热带和亚热带海水中有害细菌和人类肠道病原体生态学及其在全球气候变化时期对人类健康影响的进一步研究和公共教育的重要资源。