PFI:BIC A Smart Service System (ESPnet) for Enhanced Monitoring and Management of Toxic Algal Blooms

PFI：BIC 用于加强有毒藻华监测和管理的智能服务系统 (ESPnet)

• 批准号: 1534054
• 负责人: Donald Anderson
• 金额: $ 100万
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1534054&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; BIC; Smart; Service; System

This Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project addresses a significant and growing societal problem: toxic or harmful algal blooms (HABs), commonly called "red tides". Every year, millions of dollars are lost due to red tides and HABs throughout the US and the world. Losses can be direct, such as human illnesses and deaths from the consumption of contaminated food or the mortality of fish and shellfish resources, or indirect, such as the avoidance of all seafood products during red tides, even products that are safe. Management of areas threatened by HAB toxins currently involves monitoring programs that rely on weekly flesh-testing of shellfish collected from many locations along a coast. These programs are expensive, slow, providing protection through conservative harvesting closure policies that have not changed for decades. Red tide management can be greatly improved through the use of technological advances such as the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a submersible, self-contained "laboratory-in-a-can" that collects water samples and identifies molecules or genes that indicate the presence of hazardous species of algae. ESPs operate autonomously for months and transmit data, including environmental conditions, to shore. The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate ESPnet, a system that will utilize these novel biosensors to provide environmental awareness and decision support capabilities for resource managers charged with protecting public health and the viability of fisheries industries and tourism from toxic HABs. This system is transformational, as it applies a new sensor technology to a major resource management problem that is currently addressed through monitoring programs that are expensive, slow, and outdated. No other service system of this type currently exists for managing HABs, microbial pathogens, or other water-borne diseases or problems.ESPnet will be based on a network of ESPs that will supply real-time, high-frequency HAB surveillance information through a web portal complete with automated data analysis and visualization tools, allowing managers to view the coastal environment with unprecedented detail so they can act decisively and effectively. The three-year project will include field deployments of multiple ESPs at key locations along the Gulf of Maine (GOM) coast. The project team will work with their industry partner, McLane Research Laboratories, to modify ESP hardware and software to reduce power consumption and extend deployments to fully sample the HAB season in the GOM. Meeting the overall goal of this project requires a development effort to fully automate ESP data analysis and to merge that with geospatially rendered environmental measurements; this system must be tailored to non-experts and available via a user-friendly data portal. Human factors will be addressed through identification of user groups and characterization of receptivities to the new system, optimization of the manner in which system information is supplied to users, characterization of feedback among user groups, and estimation of economic costs and benefits from the ESPnet technology. This project addresses fundamental issues underlying management of the most widespread of all HAB poisoning syndromes--paralytic shellfish poisoning or PSP. Project activities thus have important societal benefits. The ESPnet concept can be applied to PSP problems elsewhere in the U.S., as well as to other HAB poisoning syndromes, and to a host of non-HAB problems that affect water quality, such as viruses and microbial pathogens. This project therefore satisfies the criterion "fostering connections between discoveries and their use in the service of society". This project has extensive undergraduate and graduate training, as multiple students and interns will be involved. Project results will be broadly disseminated through scientific papers, workshop and conference presentations, and discussions with the media. This project thus meets NSF's Broader Impact Criterion II through "advancing discovery in understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning".Primary partners include Lead institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department and Marine Policy Center (non-profit research and educational institution); Industrial partner: McLane Research Laboratories (Falmouth, MA; small minority-owned business); Academic partner: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Moss Landing, CA; non-profit). Broader Context Partners include Northeast Regional Association for Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS; Portsmouth, NH; regional association); Maine Department of Marine Resources (W. Boothbay Harbor, ME; state agency); New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (Concord, NH; state agency); Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (New Bedford, MA; state agency).

这种创新的合作伙伴关系：建立创新能力（PFI：BIC）项目解决了一个重大且不断增长的社会问题：有毒或有害的藻华（HABS），通常称为“红潮”。每年，由于整个美国和世界各地的红潮和哈布斯，数百万美元都会损失。损失可以是直接的，例如人类疾病和污染食品的消费或鱼类和贝类资源的死亡率或间接的死亡，例如在红潮时避免所有海鲜产品，甚至是安全的产品。 HAB毒素威胁到的地区的管理涉及监测计划，这些计划依赖于从海岸许多地方收集的贝类每周进行的肉体测试。 这些计划昂贵，缓慢，通过保守收获的封闭政策提供了保护，这些政策几十年来一直没有改变。通过使用技术进步，例如环境样本处理器（ESP），这是一种可潜水，独立的“实验室中的实验室”，从而收集水样并鉴定表明存在危害物种的分子或基因，可以极大地改善红潮的管理。 ESPS自主运行数月，并将包括环境条件在内的数据传输到岸上。该项目的目的是开发和演示ESPNET，该系统将利用这些新颖的生物传感器为负责保护公共卫生和渔业工业的可行性以及从毒性HAB的旅游业的可生存能力提供环境意识和决策能力。该系统具有变革性，因为它将新的传感器技术应用于一个主要的资源管理问题，该问题目前通过监视昂贵，缓慢且过时的程序来解决。目前，目前没有其他此类服务系统用于管理HAB，微生物病原体或其他水传播疾病或问题。ESPNET将基于ESP网络，该网络将通过网络门户网站提供实时的，高频HAB监视信息，包括自动数据分析和可视化工具，使管理人员可以通过稳定的稳定效率进行稳定的专业精神，因此可以通过自动数据分析和可视化的方式进行稳定的效率，因此可以效法且既可以进行又有典型的专业精神。这项为期三年的项目将包括在缅因州沿岸（GOM）海岸沿线的主要地点进行多个ESP的现场部署。项目团队将与他们的行业合作伙伴McLane Research Laboratories合作，修改ESP硬件和软件，以减少功耗并扩展部署，以充分对GOM中的HAB季节进行采样。 实现该项目的总体目标需要开发工作，以使ESP数据分析充分自动化，并将其与地理空间渲染的环境测量合并；该系统必须针对非专家量身定制，并通过用户友好的数据门户提供。人为因素将通过识别用户群体和对新系统的可接受性的特征，优化向用户提供系统信息的方式，用户组之间的表征以及ESPNET技术的经济成本和收益的估算来解决人为因素。该项目解决了所有HAB中毒综合症中最普遍的管理基础问题 - 参数贝类中毒或PSP。因此，项目活动具有重要的社会利益。 ESPNET概念可以应用于美国其他地方的PSP问题，以及其他HAB中毒综合症，以及许多影响水质的非HAB问题，例如病毒和微生物病原体。因此，该项目满足了“促进发现与他们在社会服务中使用之间的联系”的标准。 该项目将进行广泛的本科和研究生培训，因为将涉及多个学生和实习生。项目结果将通过科学论文，研讨会和会议演讲以及与媒体的讨论来广泛传播。因此，该项目通过“在促进教学，培训和学习的同时提高理解中的发现来推进发现”。主要合作伙伴包括主要机构：伍兹霍尔海洋学机构，生物学部和海洋政策中心（非营利性研究与教育机构）；工业合作伙伴：麦克兰研究实验室（马萨诸塞州法尔茅斯；小少数民族企业）；学术合作伙伴：蒙特雷湾水族馆研究所（加利福尼亚州莫斯兰丁；非营利组织）。更广泛的背景伙伴包括东北地区海洋观察系统协会（Neracoos; NH朴次茅斯； NH；区域协会）；缅因州海洋资源部（W. Boothbay Harbour，ME；州机构）；新罕布什尔州环境服务部（新罕布什尔州康科德；国家机构）；马萨诸塞州海洋渔业部（马萨诸塞州新贝德福德；州立机构）。