Collaborative Research: Measuring Ocean Productivity from the Diurnal Change in Oxygen and Carbon

合作研究：通过氧和碳的日变化测量海洋生产力

• 批准号: 1536121
• 负责人: Paul Quay
• 金额: $ 35.61万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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: 2015-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Measuring; Ocean; Productivity

The rate of primary production in the ocean is fundamental to the ocean's food web and the movement of carbon from surface waters to the deep ocean, known as the biological pump. Yet spatial and temporal variations in primary productivity are poorly known because the effort required for the current method of measuring primary productivity is significant, limiting its application, and the method has biases that are difficult to quantify. Using a novel combination of approaches, the investigators will estimate daily primary productivity in the ocean at three ecologically distinct sites. The research will significantly improve understanding of primary productivity variations and their impact on the ocean?s biological pump, which will benefit the broader ocean community involved in carbon cycle modeling and benefit society via the impact of ocean primary productivity on atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake and future climate change. The research results will be incorporated into both undergraduate and graduate course curricula and outreach talks at the two institutions. There will be active undergraduate student participation in the project at both Oregon State University and the University of Washington.Within the last decade, an in-situ primary productivity method based on measuring the isotopic composition of dissolved oxygen (O2) gas has gained traction within the oceanographic community because it yields a primary production estimate from a simple water sample collection. This method has yielded basin-wide snapshots of primary productivity based on underway sampling of the surface ocean by ships of opportunity. However, accurate estimates of oxygen/particulate organic carbon (O2/POC) produced during primary productivity are needed to convert oxygen-based primary production rates to carbon production. In this project, daily in-situ rates of primary production in the surface ocean at three ocean sites will be estimated from continuous measurements of diurnal cycles in the oxygen/argon dissolved gas ratio and POC and compared to simultaneous in vitro primary productivity estimates. Variations in the O2/POC produced during primary production will be determined. Autonomous float-based estimates of primary production based on measurements of diurnal cycles in O2 and POC will be validated using ship based measurements. Estimates of primary production based on autonomous measurements resulting from this research have the potential to revolutionize our knowledge on the spatial and temporal variations in primary productivity in the ocean.

海洋初级生产力的速率对于海洋食物网以及碳从地表水到深海的移动（称为生物泵）至关重要。然而，人们对初级生产力的空间和时间变化知之甚少，因为目前测量初级生产力的方法需要付出巨大的努力，限制了其应用，而且该方法存在难以量化的偏差。研究人员将采用一种新颖的方法组合来估计三个生态不同地点的海洋每日初级生产力。该研究将显着提高对初级生产力变化及其对海洋生物泵影响的理解，这将有利于参与碳循环建模的更广泛的海洋界，并通过海洋初级生产力对大气二氧化碳吸收和未来的影响造福社会。气候变化。研究结果将纳入两个机构的本科生和研究生课程以及外展讲座中。俄勒冈州立大学和华盛顿大学的本科生都将积极参与该项目。在过去十年中，基于测量溶解氧 (O2) 气体同位素组成的原位初级生产力方法在该领域获得了广泛关注。海洋学界，因为它可以通过简单的水样采集来估算初级产量。该方法基于机会船对表层海洋的正在进行的采样，获得了全流域初级生产力的快照。然而，需要准确估计初级生产力过程中产生的氧气/颗粒有机碳（O2/POC），以将基于氧气的初级生产率转换为碳产量。在该项目中，将通过连续测量氧/氩溶解气体比率和 POC 的昼夜循环来估计三个海洋地点表层海洋初级生产力的每日原位速率，并与同时进行的体外初级生产力估计值进行比较。将确定初级生产过程中产生的 O2/POC 的变化。基于 O2 和 POC 昼夜循环测量的自主浮基初级生产估算将使用基于船舶的测量进行验证。这项研究得出的基于自主测量的初级生产力估计有可能彻底改变我们对海洋初级生产力时空变化的认识。