Collaborative: INFEWS: U.S.-China: Synergistic Effects of Petroleum Production and Ocean Environmental Changes on Oyster Health

合作：INFEWS：中美：石油生产和海洋环境变化对牡蛎健康的协同效应

• 批准号: 1903719
• 负责人: Wei Xu
• 金额: $ 20.81万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
• 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: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1903719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; INFEWS; U.S.; China; Synergistic

This project was awarded through the "National Science Foundation (NSF) / National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Joint Research on Environmental Sustainability Challenges" opportunity. Understanding the connections between interrelated food, energy, and water (FEW) systems is essential for the development of sustainable worldwide seafood production. Fish and shellfish serve as an important source of high-quality protein and non-saturated fat. Near-shore aquaculture supplies over 50% of global seafood production. However, over the past decades, seafood species and the production of these species have been severely affected by water contamination as a result of energy production and climate change. In this study, investigators from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Louisiana State University, and Dalian Ocean University in China will identify potential risks of oyster production systems exposed to the contamination of petroleum products and the adverse environmental factors of UV radiation, ocean salinity fluctuation, and ocean acidification. An ocean model containing simulated environmental stresses will be developed to predict how petroleum products impact the development and growth of oysters in near-shore habitats in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and in Bohai Bay (BhB), China. Data generated from this investigation could support the Food Safety Modernization Act goals of risk-ranking consumable seafood.This study aims to address the two themes proposed in the National Science Foundation/National Natural Science Foundation of China Joint Research on Environmental Sustainability Challenges; 1) quantitative and computational modeling of a FEW system and 2) innovative human and technological solutions to critical FEW systems problems. The project uses the oyster as a model aquaculture species to assess the toxicity changes of crude oil compounds in response to environmental stresses. With the increasing activities in the petroleum industry along coastal lines, the accumulation of oil pollutants in oysters becomes a concern for human health. The locations to be studied in this project, the GoM in the US and the BhB in China, share the common characteristics of robust seafood harvesting in conjunction with a vigorous petroleum production industry. However, these marine environments have distinct differences due to their geographic locations. Hence, the two unique systems represent diversified FEW networks. This diversity of the networks is expected to be explored by the computational modeling approach developed in this study. The strategies and methods employed can be further extended to other marine aquaculture species. Moreover, this investigation on the marine impact of crude oil can translate to other marine contaminants such as pesticides and pharmaceutical products, which have also become of concern in onshore/offshore aquaculture. Research results will provide 1) a better understanding of the toxicological alterations of petroleum products under global environmental change; 2) the impacts of the modification in petroleum products on the health of aquaculture species; 3) identification of environmental stress modified petrogenic products and their toxicities to oysters that should serve as references for the management of onshore/offshore aquaculture and oil production; and 4) prediction of impacts of oil production on global ocean environments and world aquaculture concurrent with climate change.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.

该项目通过“美国国家科学基金会（NSF）/国家自然科学基金会（NSFC）环境可持续挑战联合研究”机会获得资助。了解相互关联的食品、能源和水 (FEW) 系统之间的联系对于全球海产品可持续生产的发展至关重要。鱼类和贝类是优质蛋白质和不饱和脂肪的重要来源。近岸水产养殖供应全球海产品产量的 50% 以上。然而，在过去的几十年里，海鲜物种及其生产受到能源生产和气候变化造成的水污染的严重影响。在这项研究中，来自德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校、路易斯安那州立大学和中国大连海洋大学的研究人员将确定牡蛎生产系统受到石油产品污染以及紫外线辐射、海洋盐度波动等不利环境因素的潜在风险。和海洋酸化。将开发一个包含模拟环境压力的海洋模型，以预测石油产品如何影响墨西哥湾 (GoM) 和中国渤海湾 (BhB) 近岸栖息地的牡蛎发育和生长。 这项调查产生的数据可以支持《食品安全现代化法案》对消费性海鲜进行风险排名的目标。这项研究旨在解决国家科学基金会/国家自然科学基金会环境可持续性挑战联合研究中提出的两个主题； 1) FEW 系统的定量和计算建模，以及 2) 针对关键 FEW 系统问题的创新人力和技术解决方案。该项目使用牡蛎作为水产养殖模型物种来评估原油化合物因环境压力而产生的毒性变化。随着沿海石油工业活动的增加，牡蛎中石油污染物的积累成为人类健康的一个问题。 本项目的研究地点，美国的墨西哥湾和中国的巴布亚新几内亚，具有海鲜捕捞旺盛和石油生产工业蓬勃发展的共同特征。然而，这些海洋环境因其地理位置而存在明显差异。因此，这两个独特的系统代表了多样化的 FEW 网络。预计将通过本研究中开发的计算建模方法来探索网络的多样性。所采用的策略和方法可以进一步扩展到其他海水养殖物种。此外，这项关于原油对海洋影响的调查可能会转化为其他海洋污染物，例如农药和药品，这些污染物也已成为陆上/近海水产养殖中关注的问题。研究成果将提供：1）更好地了解全球环境变化下石油产品的毒理学变化； 2) 石油产品的改性对水产养殖物种健康的影响； 3）环境胁迫改性石化产品及其对牡蛎的毒性鉴定，为陆上/近海水产养殖和石油生产的管理提供参考； 4) 预测石油生产对全球海洋环境和世界水产养殖与气候变化的影响。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

项目成果

Editorial: The physiological and molecular response of aquatic animals to environmental stresses

社论：水生动物对环境应激的生理和分子反应

• DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.987004
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Frontiers in Physiology
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Xu, Wei;Wang, Lingling
• 通讯作者: Wang, Lingling