EAGER: PPER Evaluating potential for lake water quality decline by partnering with citizen scientists

EAGER：PPER 通过与公民科学家合作评估湖泊水质下降的可能性

• 批准号: 1743082
• 负责人: Aria Amirbahman
• 金额: $ 9.86万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; PPER; Evaluating; potential; lake

Challenges to maintaining high water quality in Maine lakes include predicting the responses of lake ecosystems to variations and the extent of engagement of residents in lake stewardship activities. The long-term goal of this research project is to advance a fundamental understanding of processes that control the susceptibility of lakes to environmental factors. Citizen scientists are being trained to collect the data that projects researchers are using to characterize the environmental characteristics of the local environment. The cross-disciplinary approach to the research project, especially with respect to stakeholder engagement in implementing best management practices, can act as a model for other states.The goal of this project is to engage citizen scientists to collect water and sediment samples from 25 Maine lakes simultaneously several times during the summer season across a continuum of oligotrophic to eutrophic lakes. The synthesis of data allows the project researchers to formulate a scientific basis for the changes in lake water quality and to develop a predictive model for the epilimnetic phosphorus concentrations. Through workshops and pre- and post-project surveys with citizen scientists and lake residents, the researchers are articulating processes by which changes to lake water quality are influenced by natural and anthropogenic factors and identifying cognitive and behavioral factors that affect the human system. The project researchers are training citizen scientists in proper sample collection practice and developing surveys to assess lake stewardship activities and engagement. Afterwards, the researchers are implementing lake stewardship workshops to share the project findings. The development of the predictive lake phosphorus model involving lake stakeholders will advance knowledge within the field of limnology and will allow the development of an adaptive management process whereby the interaction between the social and biophysical components are enhanced.

维持缅因州湖泊水质高水质的挑战包括预测生态系统对湖泊管理活动中居民的变化和参与程度的反应。该研究项目的长期目标是促进对控制湖泊对环境因素易感的过程的基本理解。 正在接受公民科学家的培训，以收集项目研究人员使用的数据来表征当地环境的环境特征。 该研究项目的跨学科方法，尤其是在利益相关者参与实施最佳管理实践方面的方法，可以作为其他州的模型。该项目的目的是让公民科学家在夏季少数季节中少数次从25个缅因州湖泊中收集水和沉积物样本，从而在夏季的少数季节中多次少数少数少数。数据的合成使项目研究人员可以为湖水质量变化的科学基础，并为癫痫磷浓度开发预测模型。 通过与公民科学家和湖泊居民的研讨会以及项目前和项目后的调查，研究人员正在阐明过程，通过这些过程，湖水质量的变化受到自然和人为因素的影响，并识别影响人类系统的认知和行为因素。项目研究人员正在培训公民科学家进行适当的样本收集实践和开发调查以评估湖泊管理活动和参与度。 之后，研究人员正在实施湖管理研讨会，以分享项目发现。涉及湖泊利益相关者的预测湖磷模型的开发将促进羊水学领域的知识，并允许发展自适应管理过程，从而增强了社会和生物物理成分之间的相互作用。