FSML: Gulf of Alaska Dive and Marine Research Support Infrastructure Project

FSML：阿拉斯加湾潜水和海洋研究支持基础设施项目

• 批准号: 1903095
• 负责人: Lisa Busch
• 金额: $ 34.6万
• 依托单位: SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; Gulf; Alaska; Dive; Marine

Sitka Sound Science Center (SSSC) is a nonprofit center for marine research, education and outreach located on Sitka Sound in the Gulf of Alaska. This project will make improvements to the physical plant of its field station to make dive and marine research more efficient, safer and to provision several NSF-supported research projects in the biological and geosciences. The project will also improve SSSC's ability to protect and store scientific equipment for research in the geosciences. The studies conducted in the Gulf of Alaska and in the Tongass National Forest are important for improving our nation's understanding of how natural systems contribute to our economic and food security. Ocean acidification (OA) occurs more rapidly at higher latitudes sooner than lower latitude and in places with large amounts of fresh water inputs. Sitka Sound is a confluence of these factors, causing some of the highest rates of OA recorded in Alaska. The impacts of OA on the Gulf of Alaska ecosystem and its dependent human communities raises the importance of marine research in Sitka at this moment in time. Subtidal and intertidal research from the Sitka Sound Science Center is already increasing, but is limited by existing space, aging equipment, safety concerns and a paucity of dedicated dive research infrastructure.This project will create a better platform and staging area for new, NSF-funded dive and marine research in the Gulf of Alaska. The project will create a separate area for dive research equipment storage, and dive researchers' specific needs in the Mill Building of the Sitka Sound Science Center. It will upgrade the plumbing and the electrical in the entire building, provide showers, a place for the compressor, a drying room and bathrooms that will benefit dive research and other scientists that utilize the Sitka Sound Science Center field station facilities. Creating more dive research capacity is a critical component to furthering our ecosystem understandings in this rapidly changing environment. While SSSC's current facilities may be adequate for the increasing need for intertidal research, it does not have the ability to increase research in the subtidal. This is a gap in infrastructure, at the northern edge of the temperate Macrocystis forest, a highly dynamic area driven by both physical and biological factors. The current SSSC facility lacks reliable heat, plumbing and electricity. The upgrade will include improvements to SSSC's Mill Building interior and partitioning off inside the building for dive research equipment, creating a heated space for drying and changing, plumbing for toilets and showers with utilities to the facility and updating the electrical and the storage space for scientific equipment. It will also provide funding for a high capacity dive compressor, greatly increasing the ability to service multiple concurrent dive projects. For more about the SSSC, visit their website at https://sitkascience.org/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Sitka Sound Science Center（SSSC）是位于阿拉斯加湾Sitka Sound上的海洋研究，教育和外展的非营利性中心。该项目将改善其现场站的物理工厂，以使潜水和海洋研究更加高效，更安全，并在生物学和地球科学方面提供几个由NSF支持的研究项目。该项目还将提高SSSC保护和存储地球科学研究的科学设备的能力。在阿拉斯加湾和汤斯国家森林中进行的研究对于改善国家对自然系统如何贡献我们的经济和粮食安全至关重要。海洋酸化（OA）在比纬度更快的纬度和大量淡水输入的地方更快地发生。 Sitka Sound是这些因素的汇合，导致了阿拉斯加记录的一些OA速率。 OA对阿拉斯加生态系统及其依赖人类社区的影响提高了海洋研究在此刻的重要性。 Sitka Sound Science中心的潮汐和潮间带研究已经在增加，但是受现有空间，老化设备，安全问题以及缺乏专门的潜水研究基础设施的限制。该项目将为Alaska ulaska ullff的新，NSF资助的潜水和海洋研究创建一个更好的平台和登台领域。该项目将创建一个独立的潜水研究设备存储区域，并在Sitka Sound Science Center的磨坊建设中潜水研究人员的特定需求。 它将升级整个建筑物中的管道和电气，提供淋浴，一个为压缩机的地方，干燥室和浴室，这些浴室和浴室将使潜水研究受益以及其他利用Sitka Sound Science Center Field Station设施的科学家。 建立更多的潜水研究能力是在这个迅速变化的环境中进一步发展生态系统理解的关键组成部分。尽管SSSC当前的设施可能足以满足潮间带的越来越多的需求，但它没有能力增加潮流研究的能力。这是在温带大环森林的北边缘的基础设施中的一个差距，这是一个由物理和生物学因素驱动的高度动态区域。 当前的SSSC设施缺乏可靠的热量，管道和电力。升级将包括对SSSC的磨坊建筑物内部的改进，并在建筑物内部划分用于潜水的研究设备，为干燥和变化创造了加热的空间，厕所和带有公用事业的水管到设施，并更新科学设备的电气和存储空间。它还将为高容量潜水压缩机提供资金，从而大大提高了服务多个并发潜水项目的能力。有关SSSC的更多信息，请访问其网站https://sitkascience.org/.this Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。