Research Initiation Award: Physical forces impacting the temporal variability of mesopelagic prey at the Cape Hatteras marine top-predator diversity hotspot

研究启动奖：物理力影响哈特拉斯角海洋顶级捕食者多样性热点中层猎物的时间变化

• 批准号: 1600969
• 负责人: Amanda Kaltenberg
• 金额: $ 28.21万
• 依托单位: Savannah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1600969&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Award; Physical; forces

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) Research Initiation Awards (RIAs) provide support to STEM junior faculty at HBCUs who are starting to build a research program, as well as for mid-career faculty who may have returned to the faculty ranks after holding an administrative post or who need to redirect and rebuild a research program. Faculty members may pursue research at their home institution, at an NSF-funded Center, at a research intensive institution or at a national laboratory. The RIA projects are expected to help further the faculty member's research capability and effectiveness, to improve research and teaching at his or her home institution, and to involve undergraduate students in research experiences. With support from the National Science Foundation, Savannah State University (SSU) will conduct research aimed at understanding the influence of physical dynamics on the mesopelagic community structure and its role in top predator ecology. This project will be used to enhance teaching and learning at SSU and thus, is geared for increasing marketable quantitative skills in undergraduate education and for preparing our diverse undergraduates for graduate school or the job market. The research and educational efforts will contribute to the mission of SSU's College of Sciences and Technology (COST) to "delivering high quality education, scholarship, and research in STEM" by expanding its existing research capacity. In addition, by providing the opportunities for undergraduates to participate in cutting-edge oceanographic research and gain mentorship in advanced oceanographic data methods, this project addresses the need to equip a diverse student population for the next generation of geosciences, particularly with the research and quantitative skills that will be in greatest demand in the coming years/decades.The goal of the proposed study is to understand the relationships among the oceanography of the mesopelagic community and marine mammal top predators. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) describe the temporal variability of the physical oceanography of the region; 2) describe the temporal variability in the mesopelagic community; and 3) determine temporal linkages among the physical oceanographic setting, mesopelagic prey field, and vocalizing deep-diving marine mammals. This project will result in the application of sensors in a novel way, providing an example of the application and design of multi-sensor mooring package specifically targeted for the measurements of complex ecosystem interactions ranging from the physical habitat and the mesopelagic prey community all the way to apex predators. The findings from this study will provide a great step towards improving the study of marine top predators and their prey, whose focus is shifting from distribution and abundance to ecosystem interactions. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Duke University.

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学较高的大学计划（HBCU-UP）研究启动奖（RIA）为HBCUS的STEM初级教师提供了支持，他们开始构建研究计划，以及可能在担任行政职位或需要重新任命和重建研究计划后返回教师职位的中期职业教师。教职员工可以在其家庭机构，由NSF资助的中心，研究密集机构或国家实验室进行研究。 RIA项目有望帮助教师的研究能力和有效性，改善其家庭机构的研究和教学，并让本科生参与研究经验。在国家科学基金会的支持下，萨凡纳州立大学（SSU）将进行旨在了解物理动态对中质社区结构的影响及其在顶级捕食者生态学中的作用的研究。该项目将用于增强SSU的教学和学习，因此旨在提高本科教育的可销售定量技能，并为我们的研究生院或就业市场做好准备。研究和教育工作将通过扩大现有的研究能力来帮助SSU的科学与技术学院（成本）的使命“提供高质量的教育，奖学金和STEM研究”。此外，通过提供本科生参与尖端海洋学研究并获得高级海洋数据方法指导的机会，该项目解决了为下一代地球科学配备多样化的学生群体的需求，尤其是在未来几年中最需要的研究和量化技能，以在未来几年的范围内及时了解该关系。掠食者。该项目的具体目的是：1）描述该地区物理海洋学的时间变化； 2）描述中质社区的时间变化； 3）确定物理海洋学环境，中质猎物领域之间的时间联系，并发声深水潜水的海洋哺乳动物。该项目将以新颖的方式实现传感器的应用，提供一个专门针对的多传感器系泊套件的应用和设计，用于测量从物理栖息地和中间质质猎物社区的复杂生态系统相互作用的测量。这项研究的发现将为改善海洋顶级捕食者及其猎物的研究提供了重要的一步，其重点是从分布和丰度转移到生态系统相互作用。该项目将与杜克大学合作进行。